Ravi Bellamkonda

Ravi V. Bellamkonda serves as the executive vice president and provost of The Ohio State University. As chief academic officer, he oversees the institution’s academic enterprise, which includes 15 colleges, four regional campuses and more than 8,600 faculty who serve nearly 67,000 students. He also leads the Office of Academic Affairs, which drives Ohio State’s academic excellence and supports the students, faculty and communities the university serves. This collective effort fosters Ohio State’s reputation as one of the world’s preeminent public research universities and the flagship land-grant institution of Ohio. 

An accomplished scholar, entrepreneur and administrator, Dr. Bellamkonda joined Ohio State after serving as the provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at Emory University. At Emory, Dr. Bellamkonda focused on strengthening the university’s schools, academic operations and faculty culture, and he launched initiatives centered on student experience, arts and humanistic inquiry, and artificial intelligence in service to humanity.

Before becoming Emory’s provost, Dr. Bellamkonda served as the Vinik Dean at Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering. Previously, he was the Wallace H. Coulter Professor and chair of the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University. 

A bioengineer and neuroscientist, Dr. Bellamkonda completed his PhD at Brown University and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has won numerous awards from professional societies in biomedical engineering and biomaterials and served as president of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, the preeminent policy advocacy group in his field. In 2021, Dr. Bellamkonda received a National Institutes for Health Director’s Transformative Research Award for his work designing a “tractor beam” to treat pediatric brain tumors, supported by the National Cancer Institute.

Provost Bellamkonda and his wife, Dr. Lalita Kaligotla, are the proud parents of two grown children.