Steven J. Tepper is a leading writer and speaker on U.S. cultural policy. His work has fostered national discussions on cultural engagement, everyday creativity and the transformative possibilities of a 21st-century creative campus. 

Tepper is the dean and director of ASU’s Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, the nation’s largest, comprehensive design and arts school at a research university.

Prior to ASU, Tepper was on the faculty at Vanderbilt University, where he was a chief architect of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy, a national think tank for cultural policy and creativity.