SWANNANOA — Steven L. Solnick, 52, and a world traveler was formally inaugurated as the seventh president of Warren Wilson College in an April 27 ceremony at the school.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from M.I.T., a bachelor’s degree in politics and economics from Oxford University and a doctorate in political science from Harvard University.

He and his wife Maeve O’Connor have two daughters, Elinor, 16; and Naomi, 14; and one son, Ben, 11.

Solnick has lived in a number of overseas locales, including Great Britain, Moscow and New Delhi.