Noted Indian-American academician Dipak Jain has been named as Dean of INSEAD, a leading international business school which aims to expand operations in developing countries like India and China.
Jain, a Dean Emeritus at Northwestern University’s prestigious Kellogg School of Management, will succeed J. Frank Brown, who will step down in 2011.
Among Mr. Jain’s responsibilities would be to look for opportunities to build INSEAD programmes in China and India as the business school focuses on growing its global presence and attracting more students from the developing countries.
“I am pleased that someone of Dipak Jain’s calibre and values will continue to develop the school. The Board chose Mr. Jain to lead INSEAD into what is fast becoming a new global economic climate - one in which emerging markets are growing at a faster rate than the industrialised mature economies of Europe and North America.
In this environment we need to teach solid business and management skills while being innovative, entrepreneurial and instilling a culture of true sustainability,” Chairman of the INSEAD Board Franz Humer said.
Part of an elite list
Mr. Jain, a native of Assam, will be introduced at INSEAD’s Leadership Summit Asia 2010 to be held on November 12 in Singapore and will assume his duties as Dean in March 2011.
Mr. Jain, who was Kellogg’s Dean from 2001-2009, is part of a growing list of Indian-origin academicians assuming leading roles at foreign universities.
Harvard Business School got its first Indian-origin Dean Nitin Nohria this year while University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business too named Stanford University professor Sunil Kumar as its new Dean in July this year.
At Kellogg, Mr. Jain was the Sandy and Morton Goldman Professor in Entrepreneurial Studies and Professor of Marketing, a Chair he held since 1994.
He stepped down from his Kellogg dean post last summer but remained a professor.
A graduate of Guwahati University, the Assam native received a Masters in management science and a PhD in marketing from the University of Texas at Dallas.
“What attracts me to INSEAD is that it is a true global brand in management education, one with enduring passion and inspired vision. The values that drive INSEAD - including a deep respect for the power of diversity; a desire to link theory and practise to address important managerial issues; and an entrepreneurial approach to teaching and research - are ideal to meet the opportunities and challenges facing organisations in the coming years,” Mr. Jain said.
