Sunder Ramaswamy

Dr. Sunder Ramaswamy is an international development economist, an educator, and a higher education administrator with extensive experience in the U.S and India. He joined the [https://www.middlebury.edu/#story662973 Middlebury College, Vermont] in 1990 as a member of the economics department and in 2021, become a distinguished College Professor of International Economics at Middlebury College, Vermont, where he currently works today.

From 2009-2015, he served as the President of the Monterey Institute of International Studies (now the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey). From 2017-2021 he served as the Inaugural Vice Chancellor of Krea University. He also currently serves as the Chairman of The Asia Foundation, San Francisco.

As aforementioned, from 2017 - 2021, he was the Inaugural Vice Chancellor of Krea University, a new innovative approach to interwoven learning designed specifically to help students prepare for impactful leadership in a dynamic, uncertain, and complex world of the 21st century. He worked in collaboration with leading academics, industrialists, and philanthropists to set up the university in Sri City, near Chennai, India. Launched in 2018 by the Vice President of India, Krea University is home to the new and innovative School of Interwoven Arts and Sciences (SIAS), the IFMR Graduate School of Business, and 5 cutting edge research centers -- Leveraging Evidence for Access and Development (LEAD), Centre for Digital Financial Inclusion (CDFI), Initiatives for What Works for Women and Girls in the Economy (IWWAGE), Inclusion Economics (partnering with Yale), and Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab – South Asia (JPAL at MIT). As the Inaugural Vice Chancellor, Ramaswamy has, since 2017, actively worked on and overseen the launch of the new university in all its facets – admissions, outreach, communications, curriculum design, hiring of faculty, facilities improvements, fundraising and managing of governance structures; in addition to this, he has ensured the integration of the IFMR Graduate School of Business and Research Centers that were inherited as part of the activities of the sponsoring body of Krea, IFMR Society (founded 1970).

Further, he serves as the Chairman and Member of the Executive Committee of The Asia Foundation, San Francisco. Prior Board service includes Vice Chair & Member of Executive Committee of the Board of Directors, American International School of Chennai (2016 - 2020),, Co-Chair, Higher Education Research Cluster (Monterey County, California, 2012-2014), Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of the International School of Monterey (a K-8 Public Charter International Baccalaureate School in Seaside, California, 2009 - 2015), the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation (2011-2015), and an ex-officio member of the Board of Trustees of the Monterey Institute of International Studies, A Graduate School of Middlebury College (Monterey, California, 2009 – 2015). Provided by Wikipedia