text: In January 2010 the search committee named the Interim President and former Provost , Dr. Amado Gabriel Esteban as the 20th President of Seton Hall University . An alumnus of the University of the Philippines , Esteban is Seton Hall 's first lay president , and is the first Filipino to become president of an American university .
simplified: The current president of the university is Dr. Gabriel Esteban .