E Gordon Gee

Elwood Gordon Gee (born February 2, 1944) is an American academic administrator. As of 2023, he was serving his second term as President of West Virginia University;[1][2] his first term was from 1981 to 1985. Gee has held more university presidencies than any other American.[3] He was head of University of Colorado Boulder from 1985 to 1990, of Ohio State University from 1990 to 1997, of Brown University from 1998 to 2000, of Vanderbilt University from 2000 to 2007, and of Ohio State University for a second time from 2007 to 2013.[4] Gee stepped down from the Ohio State presidency on July 1, 2013, in response to a series of controversies relating to comments he made, the last of which involved anti-Catholic comments allegedly made in jest about the University of Notre Dame. He then headed an Ohio State-based think tank before returning to West Virginia University.