David Schultz is the Assistant Vice President for Sponsored Research Administration and joined the University of Houston in 2021.

David joins UH from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he served as Assistant Vice President for Research Administration and Finance. Before joining RPI, David led sponsored research administration for the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and Stevens Institute of Technology. Early in his career, he served as a grants administrator in the UH Division of Research.

David holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of Houston, a Master of Science in Management from the Stevens Institute of Technology and he is working on his Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership form the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He is well known throughout the academic sponsored research administration community through his service to the National Council of University Research Administration (NCURA) for more than a decade.