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Amy Burgess

Associate Vice President

Amy serves as associate vice president of The Ohio State University’s Office of Administration and Planning (A&P). In the role, she provides leadership and strategic direction on projects that support A&P and its business units, as well as projects that help advance major university-wide strategic initiatives. Amy led an 18-month long, comprehensive campus master plan – Framework 3.0 – alongside the Planning, Architecture and Real Estate team. The plan imagines campus development decades into the future and is a living, breathing planning document to support advancements in teaching, research and patient care through the physical environment.

Amy leads the university’s capital planning process in collaboration with other university offices and senior leadership to develop the annual capital investment plan, long-range capital plan and the biennial request for state capital funding. She chairs the Integrated Physical Planning Liaison Group and the Integrated Capital Planning group and serves on several university-wide groups focused on capital planning, project management, space governance and campus planning. 

Amy provides managerial oversight of the directors of A&P Communications and Facilities Information and Technology Teams (FITS). 

Prior to joining A&P in 2012, Amy spent 11 years in Ohio State’s Department of Athletics serving in multiple roles including as a graduate assistant in Compliance, director of Buckeye Sports Camps, and finally as a member of the football staff in the role of director of Internal Operations. Amy graduated from Vanderbilt University with a B.S. in Human and Organizational Development. While in school, she was a women’s lacrosse student-athlete and was named a captain and most valuable player. She went on to receive her M.A. in Sport and Exercise Management from Ohio State.

In her spare time, Amy enjoys serving as a certified women’s lacrosse official and board member of the Central Ohio Women’s Lacrosse Officials Association. She is an avid swimmer and has completed multiple triathlons including being a three-time half-Ironman finisher.