NEW YORK, NY – Indian-American finance professor Rangarajan Sundaram is the new Dean of the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University. NYU president Andrew Hamilton and provost Katherine Fleming made the announcement on Dec 20 in a press statement. Sundaram, who joined Stern’s faculty a little more than two decades ago, began serving as dean on Jan 1. He succeeds Peter Henry, who held the deanship since...
January 2010. Sundaram is the Edward I. Altman Professor of Credit and Debt Markets and Professor of Finance, and has been vice dean of MBA Programs since 2016. “Stern’s reputation is such that it had an outstanding group of candidates for the dean’s post,” said Hamilton. “But in the end, the search committee found the best candidate here in our own midst. And rightly so.”
“Raghu Sundaram has a strong, highly regarded record of leadership and innovation, scholarship and teaching, and collegiality and service to both Stern and the University. In a field of distinguished candidates for Stern’s deanship, Raghu stood out,” stated Hamilton. Sundaram earned his MBA at IIT Ahmedabad, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics at Cornell University.
“Raghu Sundaram has a strong, highly regarded record of leadership and innovation, scholarship and teaching, and collegiality and service to both Stern and the University. In a field of distinguished candidates for Stern’s deanship, Raghu stood out,” stated Hamilton. Sundaram earned his MBA at IIT Ahmedabad, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics at Cornell University.
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