Indian American Sandeep Mazumder Named 9th President of Berry College

He currently serves at Baylor University in Texas as the William E. Crenshaw Endowed Dean of the Hankamer School of Business.

The Berry College, located in Rome, Georgia, has named Sandeep Mazumder as its ninth president, effective July 1, 2025, the private university announced this week. The Indian American currently serves at Baylor University in Texas as the William E. Crenshaw Endowed Dean of the Hankamer School of Business. 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.

In a statement, Mazumder said he’s honored to be selected to serve as the next president. “I would like to thank the search committee and Board of Trustees for putting their faith in me. I adore Martha Berry’s philosophy of teaching students ‘not to be ministered unto, but to minister,’ and intend to continue to champion that sentiment, as well as continuing to share Berry’s unique distinctives for the nation to see.”

Born and raised in London, England, Mazumder received his B.A. and M.A. in economics from the University of Cambridge and his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Johns Hopkins University. His research and teaching interests include macroeconomics, monetary economics, international monetary economics and time-series econometrics, according to his Berry College profile. He has focused much of his research on U.S. inflation dynamics and the Phillips Curve, and has published more than 30 articles in various journals. Additionally, he served for several years as an associate editor for the “Journal of Macroeconomics.”

In 2022, Mazumder and co-author Dale K. Cline published the textbook “Money, Banking, and Financial Markets: A Modern Introduction to Macroeconomics.” He is a member of the American Economic Association, Southern Economic Association, Eastern Economic Association and International Atlantic Economic Association. He has taught several classes throughout his career, including Intermediate Macroeconomics, Applied Econometrics, Monetary Theory and Policy and International Finance.