HYDE PARK — The University of Chicago is looking for a new dean of the Booth School of Business.
The university announced late Wednesday that Dean Sunil Kumar will leave the business school on Aug. 15 to become the provost of Johns Hopkins University on Sept. 1.
The university said it will soon elect a faculty committee to find Kumar’s successor.
Kumar has served as dean since leaving his job as senior associate dean for academic affairs at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business in 2011.
Kumar oversaw the business school during a period where it continued to come at the top of several school rankings, raised over $300 million in philanthropic support and expanded the number of women enrolled in full-time programs, according to an announcement by Johns Hopkins University.
He also lead the school during the move of the Singapore campus to Hong Kong and the expansion of the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.
Douglas Skinner, an accounting professor and deputy dean for faculty, has been appointed interim dean at the Booth School.
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