G. “Anand” Anandalingam, Dean

The University of Maryland appointed G. “Anand” Anandalingam dean of the Robert H. Smith School of Business on July 1, 2008 after a global search. Anandalingam assumes leadership of the Smith School a recognized world leader in management education and research. The average of the school’s overall undergraduate and graduate program rankings is No. 19 in the U.S., and when research is taken into account, the school is among the top 15 U.S. business schools.

Anandalingam identifies sustainable innovation as a priority in developing business leaders ready to meet the varied and mutable challenges of a global 21st century economy. Smith’s world-class programs and research reflect the core values of socially and environmentally responsible organizational stewardship. Among the school’s strengths are its strong and highly-respected faculty; its desirable location in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area; and its established global reach.

A dynamic leader with a strong founding in academia, Anandalingam has been with the Smith School since 2001. During this time he has served in various key senior leadership positions as senior associate dean and as chair of the Smith School’s Decision, Operations and Information Technologies department. He has played a role in supporting the school’s rise in reputation in the past decade with expansion projects that more than doubled the physical size of the school and equipped it with state-of-the-art infrastructure; and the recruitment of a significant number of new faculty members from the world’s premier research institutions. He was also responsible for helping to develop Smith’s global executive programs and led the school’s effort to revamp and innovate the MBA curriculum.

Anandalingam’s leadership has also included serving as the chair of Smith’s Masters Design, Development and Innovation Committee. He is the founder of the Center for Electronic Markets and Enterprises, a center that he co-directed from 2001-2004, and he helped found the school’s Center on Health Information and Decision Systems.

Before joining Smith in 2001, Anandalingam was at the University of Pennsylvania for nearly 15 years where he was the National Center Professor of Resource and Technology Management, and a professor in both the Engineering School and the Wharton School. His positions at the University of Pennsylvania included serving as the chair of the Department of Systems Engineering and directing the Executive Master’s Program in Technology Management. He has received numerous academic and teaching awards while at the Smith School, as well as a variety of scholarships, fellowships, prizes and endowed appointments at Pennsylvania, Harvard and Cambridge. He has been on editorial boards of top-tier journals and has also graduated more than 20 PhD students, many of who have joined top-30 academic institutions.

Anandalingam began his academic career as an assistant professor at the University of Virginia. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. from Harvard University, and his B.A. and M.A. from Cambridge University.