Duke Leadership Academy Scholars Profile

Jay McAllister

Title: Program Director, Transformational Gifts
Location:
Senior Management Area: Alumni Engagement and Development
Class Year: 2025

Bio:
Jay leads a new effort within Duke Alumni Engagement and Development to engage non-alumni and non-parent individuals, families, and organizations. He came to Duke from the University of Notre Dame, where he was the embedded development liaison first for the Vice President for Research and then the Dean of the Keough School of Global Affairs. Prior to this, Jay taught and conducted classified research at Carnegie Mellon University after serving as a civilian counterintelligence and counterterrorism analyst for the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS). Jay has a master's degree in strategic intelligence from the National Intelligence University and a bachelor's degree in economics from Notre Dame.