Alexander Cartwright (academic)

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,^[1] and Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor of the State University of New York.^[2] On March 20, 2020, Cartwright was nominated by a unanimous vote of the UCF Board of Trustees to become President-Elect of UCF,^[3] and was then confirmed by the Florida Board of Governors on March 25, 2020.^[4] He became the acting President of UCF on April 13, 2020, succeeding Interim President Thad Seymour.

Alexander Cartwright
President of the University of Central Florida
Incumbent
Assumed office April 13, 2020
Preceded by	Thad Seymour (acting)
Chancellor of the University of Missouri
In office 2017–2020
Preceded by	Garnett Stokes (acting)
Succeeded by	Mun Choi
Personal details
Education	University of Iowa (BS, MS, PhD)
Academic background
Thesis	Nonlinear Optical Properties of Hetero N-I-P-I Device Structures (1995)
Doctoral advisor	Arthur Smirl
Academic work
Discipline	Electrical engineering Computer engineering
Institutions	State University of New York University of Missouri University of Central Florida