Jonathan Levin, member of the Class of ’94, winner of the 2011 John Bates Clark Medal for the most significant American economist under 40, and dean of the Graduate School of Business for the past eight years, is the university’s 13th president. Read his profile in STANFORD magazine.

Bent, who is the Jagdeep and Roshni Singh Professor in the School of Engineering and professor of energy science and engineering in the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, will remain in the vice provost role while the search for a successor is conducted.