ST. LOUIS — Saint Louis University has named an economist and university administrator from Ohio as the next dean of the Richard A. Chaifetz School of Business.
Barnali Gupta, currently associate dean for curriculum in the Farmer School of Business at Miami University of Ohio, will hold the post of Edward Jones dean, a named deanship established after the St. Louis-based financial services firm's $1 million gift to SLU in 2017. Her appointment is effective Jan. 1.
She'll succeed Scott Duellman, who was SLU's accounting department chair before he became interim dean of the Chaifetz School of Business in September 2019. Former Chaifetz School Dean Mark Higgins, who had held the post since January 2015, stepped down abruptly in August 2019 and returned to the faculty as a professor of accounting.
Gupta has served on Miami University's faculty since 1993 and took her current post in 2016 after having served as director of graduate studies in the economics department.
In addition to her administrative role, Gupta is also a professor of economics at Miami University, where she was the first female faculty member to hold the rank of full professor in the university's department of economics, officials said.
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