Luis A. Echegoyen (born January 17, 1951) is a chemistry professor at the University of Texas at El Paso, and 2020 President of the American Chemical Society (ACS).
and Ph.D. degrees in chemistry from the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus.
Echegoyen has also served as a program officer and later director (2006–2010) for the National Science Foundation's division of chemistry.
[1] In 2018, Echegoyen was chosen as the President-Elect of ACS, and began serving as President in 2020.
[2] Echegoyen has served on several prestigious committees, including the Alan T. Waterman[3] award and Affiliate Member service to the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.