Neeli Bendapudi

Neeli Bendapudi
Neeli Bendapudi in 2024
19th President of Pennsylvania State University
Assumed office
May 9, 2022
Preceded byEric J. Barron
18th President of the University of Louisville
In office
May 15, 2018  December 9, 2021
Preceded byJames R. Ramsey
Succeeded byLori Stewart Gonzalez (interim)
Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor of the University of Kansas
In office
July 1, 2016  April 27, 2018
Preceded byJeffrey Vitter
Succeeded byCarl Lejuez (acting)
Personal details
Born1962 or 1963 (age 61–62)
Visakhapatnam, India
EducationAndhra University (BA, MBA)
University of Kansas (PhD)

Neeli Bendapudi (née Dutta) is an Indian-American academic administrator who is the 19th president of Pennsylvania State University. From 2018 until 2021, she served as the 18th president of the University of Louisville. In December 2021, Penn State announced Bendapudi as the university's president; she succeeded Eric J. Barron following his retirement. She assumed office in May 2022 and is the first woman and the first non-white person to serve as Penn State's president.