Introducing President Mazumder
In November 2024, Dr. Sandeep Mazumder was unanimously elected by the Berry College Board of Trustees to serve as Berry’s ninth president. The internationally respected economist and accomplished leader in higher education emerged from a rigorous national search as the leader best suited to guide Berry into its next chapter of fulfilling its mission of educating the head, heart and hands to inspire leaders who will nurture thriving communities. He took office July 1, 2025.
The London-born Mazumder came to Berry from Baylor University in Texas, where he had served as the William E. Crenshaw Endowed Dean of the Hankamer School of Business from 2021 to 2025. There, he worked alongside faculty and staff to meet the needs of approximately 4,500 undergraduate and graduate students, comprising more than 20% of Baylor’s total enrollment. Among his many accomplishments were planning and implementing strategic initiatives that aided in boosting Baylor’s profile as a national and international leader in innovation and discovery, as well as fundraising success for the business school that topped $107 million during his tenure. He previously served as professor and chair of the Department of Economics at Wake Forest University.
As a researcher and teacher, Mazumder has focused on macroeconomics, monetary economics, international monetary economics and time-series econometrics, with particular emphasis on U.S. inflation dynamics and the Phillips Curve. His publications include more than 30 articles in journals such as the Journal of Economic Literature, the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, and the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking. He served for several years as an associate editor for the Journal of Macroeconomics. In 2022, he and co-author Dale K. Cline published the textbook "Money, Banking, and Financial Markets: A Modern Introduction to Macroeconomics."
Mazumder received his BA and MA in economics from Cambridge University and his MA and PhD in economics from Johns Hopkins University. His wife Gretchen is a business administration graduate of York College; they have three children.