College Leadership

Santanu Chatterjee is the Interim Dean of the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business and the Dr. Harold A. Black Distinguished Professor of Economics. He came to UGA in 2001 and has previously served as the Terry College Associate Dean for Graduate Programs and Director of the Full-Time MBA & MS Business Analytics programs.

Under his tenure, Terry’s Full-Time MBA program has achieved international recognition. Since being named director in 2014, he has led the program to a No. 1 ranking in value for the money globally by the Financial Times in 2024 and 2025. In separate rankings, the program placed No. 11 among public business schools by U.S. News and World Report, the eighth consecutive year the survey ranked the UGA MBA among the top 20 full-time programs. He also led the launch of the 1-year Pathway MBA program for students in STEM disciplines, dual MBA programs with the College of Engineering, College of Pharmacy, the UGA-AU Medical Partnership, and the M.S. in Business Analytics programs.

Interim Dean Chatterjee has earned several honors for teaching, research, and service. In 2018, he was named a Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor, UGA’s highest award for instruction. He received the Richard Reiff Award for Campus Internationalization in 2021 to recognize his exceptional contributions to global education at UGA. He has received the George P. Swift Award for Outstanding Teaching in Undergraduate Economics three times and Terry’s Hugh O. Nourse Outstanding MBA Teacher Award in 2018.

Chatterjee has published extensively on economics in refereed journals and books. He is frequently invited to present his research at national and international conferences and seminars. He has been a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund, University of Hamburg, and Ludwig Maxmillians Universitat. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for Economic Inquiry and on the Board of Directors for the Graduate Business Curriculum Roundtable.

Chatterjee has served UGA as a member of the University Council and its Educational Affairs, Program Review and Assessment, and University Libraries committees. He is a member of the UGA Teaching Academy and a fellow of the Southeastern Conference Academic Leadership Development Program. Chatterjee earned his doctorate in economics from the University of Washington, his master’s in economics from Delhi University, and his bachelor’s in economics from the University of Calcutta.