Ohio State is reportedly promoting executive vice president and provost Ravi Bellamkonda to replace Ted Carter as president.
reported Wednesday. His promotion will be formally announced by the Ohio State Board of Trustees during a public meeting at 9 a.m. Thursday. Bellamkonda has been Ohio State’s executive vice president and provost, serving as the chief academic officer of the university, since January 2025.
Bellamkonda previously served as the provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at Emory University. Bellamkonda, who holds a Ph.D. from Brown University and also completed a post-doctoral fellowship at MIT, started his professional career as a professor at Case Western Reserve University and was later a professor and associate vice chair for research at Georgia Tech, a president of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and the dean of engineering at Duke.. Carter, who had been Ohio State’s president since January 2024, resigned after the university learned that Carter had “an inappropriate relationship with someone seeking public resources to support her personal business.” According to, the relationship in question was with Kristanhe Vlachos, the host of The Callout Podcast, who started an LLC in December that listed the offices of WOSU, a public broadcasting service owned by the university, as its headquarters.
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