He is currently the William E. Crenshaw Endowment Dean of the Hankamer School of Business at Baylor University in Texas.
Rome, Georgia’s Berry College announced this week that Sandeep Mazumder has been appointed as its ninth president, with effect from July 1, 2025. The Indian American is currently the William E. Crenshaw Endowment Dean of the Hankamer School of Business at Baylor University in Texas. Before assuming his role at Baylor in 2021, he served as chair of the Department of Economics at Wake Forest University in North Carolina, where he began his teaching career in 2009.
Mazumder said in a statement that he is honored to be chosen to be the next president. “I express my gratitude to the Board of Trustees and search committee for believing in me. I love Martha Berry’s teachings about teaching students “not to be ministered unto, but to minister,” and I plan to keep advocating for that idea and sharing Berry’s distinctive qualities with the country.
Mazumder was raised in London, England, and graduated from the University of Cambridge with a B.A. and M.A. in economics. He then went on to Johns Hopkins University to earn an M.A. and Ph.D. in the same field. According to his Berry College profile, he is interested in studying and teaching time-series econometrics, international monetary economics, monetary economics, and macroeconomics. He has authored over 30 articles in a variety of journals, with a significant portion of his research centered on the Phillips Curve and the dynamics of inflation in the United States. He also worked as an associate editor for the “Journal of Macroeconomics” for a number of years.
The textbook “Money, Banking, and Financial Markets: A Modern Introduction to Macroeconomics” was published in 2022 by Mazumder and co-author Dale K. Cline. He belongs to the International Atlantic Economic Association, the American Economic Association, the Southern Economic Association, and the Eastern Economic Association. Throughout his career, he has instructed classes in a variety of subjects, such as International Finance, Monetary Theory and Policy, Applied Econometrics, and Intermediate Macroeconomics.
Mazumder will take over for President Stephen Briggs, who has been with Berry since 2006 and is retiring at the end of the 2024–2025 school year.
