The steering committee is charged with providing overall guidance for the presidential debate and related programs.

Steering committee co-chairs

• Michael Barr, Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
• Cynthia Wilbanks, vice president for government relations

Steering committee members

• Henry Baier, associate vice president for facilities and operations
• Thomas Baird, vice president for development
• Anne Curzan, dean of LSA
• Lynette Clemetson, director of Wallace House
• Amy Dittmar, vice provost for academic and budgetary affairs
• Alec Gallimore, Robert J. Vlasic Dean of the College of Engineering
• Domenico Grasso, UM-Dearborn chancellor
• Timothy Lynch, vice president and general counsel
• Warde Manuel, Donald R. Shepherd Director of Intercollegiate Athletics
• Jonathan Massey, dean of the A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
• Kallie Michels, vice president for communications
• Elizabeth Moje, dean of the School of Education
• Jonathan Overpeck, Samuel A. Graham Dean of the School for Environment and Sustainability
• Ravi Pendse, vice president for information technology and chief information officer
• Robert Sellers, vice provost for equity, inclusion and chief diversity officer
• Simone Himbeault Taylor, interim vice president for student life
• Eddie Washington, executive director of the Division of Public Safety and Security