who was the president of depaul
A. Gabriel Esteban, PhD, is the 12th president of DePaul University, the nationâs largest Catholic university. He assumed the presidency on July 1, 2017 as the first lay leader in DePaulâs history. Dr. Esteban oversees a $599 million budget and 22,769 students on two major Chicago campuses at DePaul, which employs more than 2,400 full-time faculty and staff, and 1,150 part-time faculty and staff.