Sunil Kumar
Sunil Kumar, dean of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a widely published expert on operations management and research, has been appointed the 15th provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Johns Hopkins University.
Kumar, who will join the university Sept. 1, has been dean at Chicago Booth since 2011 and previously was professor and senior associate dean for academic affairs at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. He was appointed to his new role at JHU by the executive committee of the Johns Hopkins board of trustees on the recommendation of President Ronald J. Daniels.
"Sunil is a proven academic leader with uncompromising standards for excellence, great integrity, and a deep-seated commitment to collaboration," Daniels said. "He is a scholar and leader passionate about higher education, committed to values that align with the priorities of the Johns Hopkins Ten by Twenty' strategic vision, and well-suited to be a steward and champion of this extraordinary institution."
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