David Van Zandt is an American attorney, legal scholar, and academic administrator.
[citation needed] He graduated from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in sociology.
In 2011, Van Zandt was named the eighth president of the New School in New York City and served until April 2020.
They moved to Chicago when Van Zandt was offered a job as a professor at Northwestern Law.
After being named the 8th president of the New School, Van Zandt and his family moved to New York at the beginning of 2011.