Andrew David Hamilton FRS (born 3 November 1952) is a British-American[1] chemist and academic administrator who served as the 16th president of New York University from 2016 to 2023.

Andrew Hamilton was born on 3 November 1952 in Guildford, Surrey, where he attended Royal Grammar School.

His laboratory is most noted for the design of barbiturate hosts, farnesyl transferase inhibitors, protein surface binders, and helix mimetics.

He had previously served as Deputy Provost for Science and Technology for one year under Hockfield, and as chairman of the department of chemistry at Yale.

On 16 June, it was confirmed that he would succeed John Hood and assume the post for a period of seven years on 1 October 2009.