The London-born Mazumder came to Berry from Baylor University in Texas, where he served as the William E. Crenshaw Endowed Dean of the Hankamer School of Business from 2021 to 2025. There, he worked alongside faculty and staff to meet the needs of approximately 4,500 undergraduate and graduate students comprising more than 20% of Baylor's total enrollment. His many accomplishments included planning and implementing strategic initiatives that aided in boosting Baylor's profile as a national and international leader in innovation and discovery, as well as fundraising success for the business school that topped $107 million during his tenure. He previously served as professor and chair of the Department of Economics at Wake Forest University.
As a researcher and teacher, Mazumder has focused on macroeconomics, monetary economics, international monetary economics and time-series econometrics, with particular emphasis on U.S. inflation dynamics and the Phillips Curve. His publications include more than 30 articles in journals such as the Journal of Economic Literature, the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity and the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking. He served for several years as an associate editor for the Journal of Macroeconomics. In 2022, he and co-author Dale K. Cline published the textbook "Money, Banking, and Financial Markets: A Modern Introduction to Macroeconomics."
Mazumder received his B.A. and M.A. in economics from Cambridge University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Johns Hopkins University. His wife Gretchen is a business administration graduate of York College; they have three children.
