Lanny Liebeskind Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs

As senior vice provost for academic affairs, Liebeskind provides leadership, mentoring and transition support for the Office of the Provost, working closely with other senior leaders within the division and across the university to continue advancing important efforts in academic leadership recruitment and development, continually improving the faculty experience and furthering signature initiatives such as AI.Humanity.

Liebeskind served as interim provost in 2024, using his experienced leadership, deep knowledge of Emory’s academic affairs and highly collaborative approach to serve the Office of the Provost and the university. Prior to his current role as senior vice provost, Liebeskind served for five years as senior associate dean of research in Emory College, ten years as director of the Office of University Science Strategies, and since 2015 as vice provost for strategic research initiatives. He is also the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Chemistry.

Selected Career Milestones

• Promoted to professor at Emory and awarded a Samuel Candler Dobbs Chair in Chemistry (1988)
• Received an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation Teacher-Scholar Award, and an Alexander von Humboldt Senior Scientist Research Award
• Elected a Fellow of the American Chemical Society (2015)
• Appointed to the International Scientific Advisory Board of the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic

Education

• BS, State University of New York at Buffalo
• PhD, University of Rochester
• NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• NIH Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University