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.