Office of the President

The Office of the President is the highest ranking administrative and academic office at the University.

The mission of the Office of the President is to provide the necessary support to the President of the University to enable him to fulfill his responsibilities to the various constituencies and stakeholders with which he regularly interacts, both internally and externally. It includes the Office of the Chief of Staff and Deputy to the President, the Office of Compliance and Risk Management, and the Office of Equal Opportunity.

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The office also is a repository for actions and decisions of the President and his core team of advisors, and strives to facilitate communication and cooperation between and among the University’s schools and administrative units, and assist students, parents, faculty, staff, trustees, alumni, and various members of the community.

In 1956, based on the New York University Self-Study Final Report, the Office of the President was created as the chief administrative post of the university, with the office of the chancellor retained as chief academic officer. Beginning with James Hester in 1975, the title of president has been used for the chief administrative officer at the University.

John Sexton is the fifteenth and current President of New York University. His tenure has been marked by a university that has grown faster than ever in terms of prospective student interest and a coordinating decrease in the overall acceptance rate. NYU’s desirability and student body thrive. Sexton acknowledged that new fundraising programs would be required to meet these changes and further transform the University.

His presidency has made the greatest achievement in its efforts to increase the University’s endowment through the Campaign for NYU and -- with the assistance of the Board of Trustees -- has expanded the faculty of arts and science through the Partners Fund.

Under President Sexton's administration, the University has moved forward from being an institution that is "in and of the city," to being one that is in and of the world. With 10 international academic centers and its portal campus in Abu Dhabi - the first comprehensive liberal arts and science campus in the Middle East to be operated abroad by a major American research university - New York University has become a true Global Network University.