List of presidents of Imperial College London

The president of Imperial College London is the highest academic official of Imperial College London.^[1] The president is the chief executive and is elected by the council of the college and chairman of the senate.^[2] The position is currently held by Hugh Brady, who succeeded Alice Gast in August 2022.

In 2012 the responsibilities were separated into two posts, the president & rector (later simplified to president) whose duty is to "promote Imperial's position as a global university" and provost who is "responsible for advancing and delivering the College's core academic mission - education, research and translation."^[3] From 2013, Alice Gast served as president & rector, while James Stirling became the first provost of Imperial College London in August 2013.^[4]

The president's residence is a large house on Queen's Gate, at the southwest corner of the college's campus in South Kensington, London.

List of rectors

1908 Henry Bovey
1910 Alfred Keogh
1922 Thomas Henry Holland
1929 Henry Tizard
1942 Richard Southwell
1948 Roderic Hill
1954 Patrick Linstead
1966 Owen Saunders (Acting Rector)
1967 William Penney
1973 Brian Flowers
1985 Eric Ash
1993 Ronald Oxburgh
2000 Richard Sykes
2008 Roy Anderson
2009 Keith O'Nions (Acting Rector^[5])
2010 Keith O'Nions (Full appointment)
2014 Alice Gast
2022 Hugh Brady