Charles R. Modica

Charles R. Modica, JD

Chancellor

Charles R. Modica, JD, is the Chancellor and Chair of the Board of Directors of St. George’s University, a University he co-founded in 1977 in Grenada, West Indies as an independent School of Medicine. In the years since, Dr. Modica guided its development into an international center of higher education. As Ambassador-at-Large for Grenada, Dr. Modica has worked to promote the country’s infrastructure in health, industry, business, and tourism. Dr. Modica has a strong sense of civic responsibility and currently serves the Grenada Heart Foundation, the Vincentian Children’s Heart Fund, and Co-Chair of the Fund for the Orphans and Elderly of Grenada. The Chancellor earned his Doctor of Jurisprudence from Delaware Law School in 1975 and has been the recipient of several awards and honors, including an Honorary Doctorate of Civil Law from Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK, in 2009, and an Honorary Doctor of Laws from Barry University School of Law, Miami Shores, Florida, in 2000.