About UChicago Argonne, LLC
Board of Governors
John W. Rowe
- Member, UChicago Argonne, LLC Board of Governors for Argonne National Laboratory
- Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Exelon
John W. Rowe is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Exelon Corporation - one of the nation's five largest electric utilities which has 5.1 million customers and revenues of about $15 billion. Exelon was named the outstanding energy company in the nation by Forbes in December of 2002. Mr. Rowe has led electric utilities since 1984, consecutively serving as Chief Executive Officer of Central Maine Power Company, the New England Electric System, and Unicom Corporation (one of Exelon's predecessors). Mr. Rowe is a lawyer, and was General Counsel of Consolidated Rail Corporation and a partner in the firm of Isham, Lincoln and Beale. Mr. Rowe's business activities have been marked by his attention to balance sheet strength, earnings consistency, service reliability and environmental performance. Exelon has sponsored environmental improvement programs totaling $350 million.
Mr. Rowe is a member of the Boards of Unum Provident Corporation and the Northern Trust Company. He has previously served on the Boards of Fleet Boston Financial Corporation, Wisconsin Central Transportation Company and MidSouth Corporation. His civic and professional commitments include serving as Vice Chairman of the Chicago Historical Society and as a member of the boards of the Chicago Urban League, the Field Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, Northwestern University, the Edison Electric Institute, the Chicago Club and the visiting committees of the Oriental Institute and the University of Pennsylvania Museum. He has previously been Chairman of the Edison Electric Institute, President of the USS Constitution Museum, and Chairman of the Massachusetts Business Roundtable. His civic activities emphasize cultural diversity and historical education.
Mr. Rowe holds BS and JD degrees from the University of Wisconsin and its law school, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and the Order of the Coif and is the founder of the Rowe Professorship in Byzantine history. He is a member of the Board of the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation and has received the university's Distinguished Alumni Award. He holds honorary doctorates from Illinois Institute of Technology, Bryant College, Drexel University, and the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. He received the City Club of Chicago's Citizen of the Year award in 2002, the Corporate Leadership Award from the Spanish Coalition for Jobs in 2002 and the Anti-Defamation League's World of Difference award in 2000. He has chaired fund raising events for the Urban League of Chicago, The Spanish Coalition for Jobs, El Valor and the Cosmopolitan Chamber of Commerce.
