Gerard Egan is a professor emeritus at Loyola University of Chicago. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, on 17 June 1930, graduated from Loyola Academy, Chicago, in June 1948 and from Loyola University, in June 1953, with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He studied philosophy at West Baden College in Indiana, then a Jesuit seminary linked to Loyola University, and received a Licentiate in Philosophy in June 1955. From September 1966 to June 1967, he taught French and Spanish at St. Ignatius High School, Chicago, and began teaching philosophy at Loyola University in September 1968.