Dr. Peter J. Ricketts became Acadia University's sixteenth president on July 1, 2017.

Past presidents of Acadia University:

• The Rev'd Dr. John Pryor (1846-1850)
• The Rev'd Dr. John Mockett Cramp (1851-1853 and 1856-1869)
• The Rev'd Dr. Edmund Albern Crawley (1853-1856)
• The Rev'd Dr. Artemus Wyman Sawyer (1869-1896)
• The Rev'd Dr. Thomas Trotter (1897-1906)
• The Rev'd Dr. W.B. Hutchinson (1907-1909)
• The Rev'd Dr. George Barton Cutten (1910-1922)
• The Rev'd Dr. Frederic William Patterson (1923-1948)
• Dr. Watson Kirkconnell (1948-1964)
• Dr. James MacDonald Richardson Beveridge (1964-1978)
• Dr. Alan Sinclair, QC (1978-1981)
• The Rev'd Dr. James R.C. Perkin (1981-1993)
• Dr. Kelvin K. Ogilvie (1993-2003)
• Dr. Gail Dinter-Gottlieb (2003-2008)
• Raymond E. Ivany (2009-2017)