G. “Anand” Anandalingam Directory Page

Professor G. “Anand” Anandalingam is Professor Emeritus at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. Previously, he was the Ralph J. Tyser Professor of Management Science at the Smith School. He served as dean of Imperial College Business School at Imperial College London from August 2013 to July 2016 and as dean of the Smith School from 2007 to 2013. Before joining Smith in 2001, Anand spent nearly 15 years at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a professor in both the School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Wharton School.

As dean at two prestigious universities, Anand raised nearly $100 million in gifts for the institutions, established several successful master’s degree programs, recruited prominent senior scholars, and promoted many women and minorities to academic leadership positions. Several of those individuals went on to become deans at other universities. Anand helped establish a center for entrepreneurship at Imperial College and expand entrepreneurship education and practice at the University of Maryland, with a particular emphasis on social innovation. He also created partnerships for degree and nondegree programs around the world, including in China, India and the Middle East.

Anand has received numerous academic and teaching awards from the Smith School, as well as a variety of scholarships, fellowships, prizes and endowed appointments at the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University and the University of Cambridge. He has published more than 100 papers and four books and has presented his work at numerous prestigious international conferences. His research has evolved from economic dynamics and policy to energy and environmental systems analysis, the design and pricing of telecommunications and information systems, technology strategy, leadership and social entrepreneurship.

Anand received his Ph.D. from Harvard University and his B.A. from the University of Cambridge.