ITHACA, N.Y. — Cornell University announced it has named Mark Nelson, a professor of accounting, as the 12th dean of the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management.
Nelson will begin his five-year term as Johnson School dean on July 1. He will succeed Soumitra Dutta, who will step down from the post June 30, the school said in a news release posted to its website. Dutta will continue on as dean of the Cornell College of Business, a position to which he was appointed March 22.
“Mark is an internationally recognized scholar and an award-winning teacher of Johnson MBA students,” Cornell Provost Michael Kotlikoff said in the release. “The selection committee and I have been extraordinarily impressed by the depth, sophistication and comprehensiveness of his thinking regarding all aspects of the deanship, Johnson and the College of Business.”
Nelson will report to Dutta.
A member of the Johnson faculty since 1990, Nelson served as associate dean for academic affairs from 2007 to 2010, overseeing the school’s tenure-track faculty and research, the release stated.
Nelson earned his Ph.D. in accounting in 1990 and a master’s degree in accounting in 1989, both from Ohio State University. In 1985, he earned a bachelor degree in business administration from Iowa State University.
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