Deans

Prof. (Dr.) C. Raj Kumar

Professor & Vice Chancellor, O.P. Jindal Global (Institution of Eminence Deemed To Be University) and Dean, Jindal Global Law School

LL.B. (Delhi), B.C.L. (Oxford), LL.M. (Harvard), S.J.D. (Hong Kong)
vc@jgu.edu.in

Professor (Dr.) C. Raj Kumar, a Rhodes Scholar, is the Founding Vice Chancellor of O.P. Jindal Global (Institution of Eminence Deemed To Be University) in India. He was appointed as the VC at the age of 34 in 2009 when the university was established. JGU is one of only 20 universities in India and the only non-STEM university, which has been declared as an “Institution of Eminence” by the Government of India.

Prof. (Dr.) Mayank Dhaundiyal

Professor and Dean, JGBS

B.Tech.(Vellore Institute of Technology, India);
M.Sc., Ph.D. (Technological University Dublin, Ireland)

Welcome to the Jindal Global Business School (JGBS) at the O P Jindal Global University (JGU).

As part of a world ranked university, we are deeply committed to not only deliver contemporary and industry-relevant management education but also to provide an ecosystem to our students helping them build and enhance their knowledge-base, skill-set, personalities and eventually transform them into future-ready managers, leaders and entrepreneurs who can make a positive and substantial impact in the world. Our Vision is to be a “globally acclaimed business school” and we have taken a number of steps including the membership of the AASCB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business), in order to not only benchmark our processes to the world’s best business schools but also to attract the best students, faculty and staff members.

Prof. (Dr.) Sreeram Sundar Chaulia

Professor and Dean, Jindal School of International Affairs

B.A. (Hons.) (University of Delhi); B.A. (Oxford);
M.Sc. (London School of Economics, London);
M.A.; Ph.D. (Syracuse University)
schaulia@jgu.edu.in

Professor (Dr.) Sreeram Chaulia is Professor and Dean at the Jindal School of International Affairs of O.P. Jindal Global (Institution of Eminence Deemed To Be University). He holds a Doctorate (Ph.D.) and a Master of Arts (M.A.) in Political Science and International Relations from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, USA. He holds a Master of Science (MSc.) degree in History of International Relations 

Prof. Sudarshan Ramaswamy

Professor and Dean, Jindal School of Government and Public Policy

M.A. (Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi);
M.Phil. (Oxford)

rsudarshan@jgu.edu.in

Professor Ramaswamy Sudarshan has had distinguished careers in the domains of research, development programming and governance. After he obtained a Master’s degree in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics he was elected to a Rhodes scholarship. He joined Balliol College, University of Oxford, and obtained a Master’s degree in Politics in 1977. He was elected to a research fellowship 

Prof. Kathleen A. Modrowski

Professor and Dean, Jindal School of Liberal Arts & Humanities

B.A. (University of Toledo);
Diplôme des Etudes Supérieures, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris);
ABD, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris)

kamodrowski@jgu.edu.in

Professor  Modrowski is a distinguished American educator, education administrator and scholar. Born in Toledo, Ohio, began her university studies in the United States, at the University of Toledo, Ohio where she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with a double major in History and English Literature. She completed her graduate studies in France at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales

Prof. Tom Goldstein

Professor and Dean, Jindal School of Journalism & Communication

B.A (Yale University); M.A. (Columbia School of Journalism);
J.D (Columbia Law School)

Professor Goldstein is a distinguished American journalism educator, education administrator and author. For 15 years, he served as dean of the journalism schools at Columbia and at Berkeley—the only universities in the United States where journalism is taught exclusively at the graduate level.  Born in Buffalo, New York, he is a graduate of Yale University, where he majored in English

Prof. (Dr.) Ashish Bharadwaj

Professor and Dean, Jindal School of Banking & Finance

Ph.D. (Max Planck Institute for Innovation & Competition, and Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU)), Germany

abharadwaj@jgu.edu.in

Professor (Dr.) Ashish Bharadwaj serves as the Dean of the Jindal School of Banking & Finance, which was established in 2018. Professor Bharadwaj also serves as Executive Director of the University Office for Rankings, Benchmarking and Institutional Transformation (ORBIT). He is also Founding Director of Jindal Initiative on Research on Intellectual Property and Competition (JIRICO)

Prof. (Dr.) Thomas E. Mical

Professor and Dean, Jindal School of Art & Architecture

B.Des. (Hons.) (University of Florida); Ms.Arch. (Harvard);
M.S.; Ph.D. (Georgia Tech)

tmical@jgu.edu.in

Professor (Dr.) Thomas Mical has been teaching and researching globally on modern and hypermodern theories of architecture and urbanism over a long career in diverse international architecture programs. He has an M.Arch. from Harvard GSD on sci-fi urbanism and a Ph.D. from Georgia Tech in architectural theory, philosophy, and art history. He has taught 50 design studios and has been a tenured professor in the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

Prof. (Dr.) Armin Rosencranz

Professor and Dean, Jindal School of Environment and Sustainability

A.B. (Princeton University);
J.D.; M.A. and Ph.D. (Stanford University)

arosencranz@jgu.edu.in

Professor (Dr.) Armin Rosencranz is a lawyer and political scientist (AB, Princeton; JD, MA, PhD Stanford). He has taught at Berkeley(1987-94) and Stanford (1994-2012). He founded and led an international environmental NGO, Pacific Environment (1987-96). At Stanford, his courses were listed in ten departments, from history to biology, and he received three teaching awards.