A top LSU financial administrator is moving up to a new role as chief financial officer of the LSU System, President Wade Rousse announced Friday.
Brandi Bush Roberts is a longtime LSU official who has been serving as chief of staff to the executive vice president for finance and administration. She will report directly to Rousse and oversee financial operations across all the universities in the system, according to a news release.
“Dr. Roberts is a proven, mission-driven leader with the technical expertise and steady judgment required to help guide the LSU System’s financial future,” Rousse said in the release. “Her record of service and her commitment to transparency and accountability will strengthen our ability to invest strategically in our campuses, our people, and our statewide impact.”
The LSU Board of Supervisors recently separated the job of system president and chancellor of the flagship campus in Baton Rouge, with Rousse in the former role and James Dalton in the latter. Former president William Tate was responsible for both.
Roberts, who has a doctorate in Higher Education Administration from LSU, spent more than a decade overseeing financial operations for LSU Auxiliary Services. Then, as chief of staff to LSU’s executive vice president for finance and administration, she played a major role in handling LSU $3.6 billion budget.
The release points to Roberts’ role in reducing the university’s property insurance premiums by $1.5 million.
Rousse and Dalton are replacing many top positions at LSU after top leaders left around the same time as Tate — including Kimberly Lewis, the former vice president for finance and administration, who followed Tate to Rutgers University.
This is a developing story.