John Leonard Anderson (born 1945)[1] is the current president of the National Academy of Engineering.

He was a professor of chemical engineering, who served as the eighth president of Illinois Institute of Technology.

Prior to his appointment at IIT, Anderson held positions in academia at various institutions, serving both as the provost of Case Western Reserve University and the dean of the College of Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.

[2] Anderson was part of Cornell University's faculty for five years, where he served as an assistant professor of chemical engineering.

[3] He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1992 for contributions to the understanding of colloidal hydrodynamics and membrane transport phenomena.