who was the president of depaul?
<answer> A. Gabriel Esteban, is the 12th president of DePaul University. <context> A. Gabriel Esteban, PhD, is the 12th president of DePaul University, the nation’s largest Catholic university. He assumed the presidency on July 1, 2017 as the first lay leader in DePaul’s history. Dr. Esteban oversees a $599 million budget and 22,769 students on two major Chicago campuses at DePaul, which employs more than 2,400 full-time faculty and staff, and 1,150 part-time faculty and staff.