Jonathan Veitch (born 1959) has been the president of Occidental College since July 2009. Prior to that, he was an actor, a professor at the University of Wisconsin and dean of The New School's Eugene Lang College.[1] He has authored several books, including Colussus in Ruins and American Superrealism: Nathanael West and the Politics of Representation in the 1930s.
Veitch is the first president of Occidental College to be a native Angeleno.