Dr. Sudesh Mujumdar joined the Romain College of Business at the University of Southern Indiana (USI) as Dean and Professor of Economics in July 2022. As Dean, he has led the development and actualization of a futuristic value proposition anchored in building market-leading competencies for ALL undergraduate business students at USI – competencies that no other business school, globally, is building at scale at the undergraduate level. He also successfully led the extension of AACSB accreditation for business and accounting programs at Romain College. Prior to his Deanship at the Romain College, Dr. Mujumdar served as Dean of the College of Business Administration at Savannah State University in Savannah, Georgia, where he successfully led the College in its extension of AACSB accreditation and secured more than $4 million in grants and private donor funding.
He also successfully led the inclusion of Savannah State University as a partnering institution in Bank of America’s $1 billion initiative to expand economic opportunity and social justice, and forged partnerships and relationships with business organizations such as Gulfstream and PricewaterhouseCoopers, various city and state government offices, Texas A&M’s Human Behavior Lab, and the Avatar Lab at the Bagwell College of Education (Kennesaw State University), shaping the College of Business Administration’s brand identity and visibility.
Dr. Mujumdar’s research interests are in applied game theory and biometrics. He has a number of publications in A*/A journals, such as Games and Economic Behavior and Economics Letters.