Fr. Bob Reiser, SJ, serves as Secretary for Pre-Secondary and Secondary Education for the Jesuit Conference of Canda and the United States and executive director of the Jesuit Schools Network of North America (JSN). JSN is a network of 91 member Jesuit schools located throughout Canada, the United States, Belize and Micronesia. JSN schools serve approximately 55,000 young women and men under three models of Jesuit education — Nativity schools, Cristo Rey high schools, and Jesuit middle and high schools.

Born and raised in Buffalo, New York, and a graduate of Canisius High School, Fr. Reiser entered the Society of Jesus in 1986 and was ordained a priest at Fordham University in 1997. He has served 25 years in Jesuit pre-secondary and secondary education. He worked 10 years at Saint Peter’s Preparatory School in Jersey City, teaching mathematics and Latin as a scholastic from 1990 to 1993 and then serving as president from 2006 to 2013. He worked for nine years at McQuaid Jesuit in Rochester, serving as assistant to the president from 2004 to 2006, and then teaching mathematics and theology and serving as president from 2013 to 2020. He also was a member of the faculty and director of campus ministry at Canisius High School from 1997 to1999.

In addition to his direct work in Jesuit schools, Fr. Reiser has served on the boards of trustees of several Jesuit high schools, colleges and universities, as well as the board of directors of the Jesuit Secondary Education Association, the predecessor member organization of the JSN. From 1999- 2006, he was director of vocations for the New York and Maryland Provinces of the Society of Jesus.