Sunil Kumar named 15th provost at Johns Hopkins University

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Sunil Kumar, dean of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a widely published expert on operations management and research, has been appointed the 15th provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Johns Hopkins University.

Kumar, who will join the university Sept. 1, has been dean at Chicago Booth since 2011 and previously was professor and senior associate dean for academic affairs at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. He was appointed to his new role at JHU by the executive committee of the Johns Hopkins board of trustees on the recommendation of President Ronald J. Daniels.