The University of Virginia's Board of Visitors named a new president Friday — despite Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger asking it to pause the search until she filled multiple vacant board seats.

The board chose Scott Beardsley, dean of UVA's Darden School of Business since 2015. The Washington Post reported Thursday that he would likely be the pick.

Beardsley called the selection "the honor of my life."

Beardsley, who holds a doctorate in higher education management from the University of Pennsylvania, is UVA's longest-serving dean, in his third term leading Darden, the public university's graduate business school.

Before joining UVA, he was a senior partner at the multinational consulting firm McKinsey & Company, where he worked for 26 years and was a member of the company's global board. In 2017, he wrote Higher Calling: the Rise of Nontraditional Leaders in Academia, which explores how the changing landscape of American higher education affects the skills that make for successful educational leaders.

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