Indian-American Renu Khator to head US' council on education Date:   Tuesday , April 28, 2015 An Indian-American has been named to head U.S\' most influential higher education association. Renu Khator, Chancellor of University of Houston System and also President of University of Houston, will be the new Chair of American Council on Education (ACE) succeeding James H Mullen Jr. She is the UH System\'s first woman chancellor and first foreign-born president and the first ever Indian immigrant to lead a comprehensive research university in the U.S.