Sandeep Mazumder joined Berry College as the ninth president in July 2025. His formal inauguration was held April 10, 2026, affirming his leadership and the college's enduring mission to educate the head, heart and hands in service of thriving communities.
An internationally respected economist and higher education leader, President Mazumder has devoted his career to advancing academic excellence, institutional stewardship and student-centered learning. His presidency reflects a commitment to integrating rigorous intellectual inquiry with character formation and experiential education with purposeful engagement, principles that are central to Berry’s distinctive educational model.
Through a collaborative approach to presidential leadership, Mazumder encourages and supports innovation across key areas of the college. Building a strategic plan that elevates Berry’s longstanding strengths, he has focused the institution on advancing access, intentional student formation, hands-on learning and graduate preparedness. His leadership has emphasized the expansion of undergraduate research opportunities, international experiences and positioning Berry as a model of integrated land use across its 27,000 acres, with attention to how students live, learn and work together. Across these priorities, Mazumder has worked closely with faculty, staff and campus leaders to align Berry’s mission-driven educational model with the evolving needs of higher education.
Prior to joining Berry, Mazumder served as the William E. Crenshaw Endowed Dean of the Hankamer School of Business at Baylor University. His tenure was marked by strategic initiatives that strengthened the school’s national and international profile in innovation and discovery, as well as significant fundraising success. Earlier in his career, he served as professor and chair of the Department of Economics at Wake Forest University.
As a scholar and teacher, President Mazumder specializes in macroeconomics, monetary economics, international monetary economics and time-series econometrics, with particular emphasis on U.S. inflation dynamics and the Phillips Curve. He has published more than 30 peer-reviewed articles in leading journals, including the Journal of Economic Literature, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity and the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking. He served for several years as an associate editor of the Journal of Macroeconomics. In 2022, he co-authored the textbook, Money, Banking and Financial Markets: A Modern Introduction to Macroeconomics with Dale K. Cline.
Mazumder earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics from the University of Cambridge and his master’s and doctoral degrees in economics from Johns Hopkins University.
President Mazumder and his wife, Gretchen, a graduate of York College of Pennsylvania with a degree in business administration, are the parents of three children. The family resides on Berry’s campus and is actively engaged in the life of the college community.
