Alexander Cartwright (academic)

Alexander N. Cartwright
6th President of the University of Central Florida
Incumbent
Assumed office April 13, 2020
Preceded by	Thad Seymour (interim)
9th Chancellor of the University of Missouri
In office August 1, 2017 – March 26, 2020
Preceded by	R. Bowen Loftin Garnett Stokes (interim)
Succeeded by	Mun Choi
Personal details
Born	Alexander N. Cartwright
Occupation	academic administrator, professor
Website	www.ucf.edu/leadership/president//
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Iowa (BS, PhD)
Thesis	Nonlinear optical properties of hetero n-i-p-i device structures (1995)
Doctoral advisor	Arthur L. Smirl
Academic work
Discipline	Electrical and Computer Engineering
Institutions	State University of New York University of Missouri University of Central Florida

Alexander Nevin Cartwright is a US academic and President of the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida. Before his nomination to UCF, he was the chancellor of the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri, and Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor of the State University of New York. On March 20, 2020, Cartwright was nominated by a unanimous vote of the UCF Board of Trustees to become President-Elect of UCF, and was then confirmed by the Florida Board of Governors on March 25, 2020. He became the acting President of UCF on April 13, 2020, succeeding Interim President Thad Seymour.