College Leadership

Santanu Chatterjee is Dean of the University of Georgia Terry College of Business and the Dr. Harold A. Black Distinguished Professor of Economics. He joined the Terry faculty in 2001 and held a series of academic leadership roles, including Associate Dean for Graduate Programs and Director of the Full-Time MBA and MS in Business Analytics programs. He was named the college’s interim Dean in July 2025 and permanent Dean in April 2026.

Dean Chatterjee provides strategic and operational oversight for Terry’s seven academic departments, the Institute for Leadership Advancement, the Ivester Institute for Business Analytics and Insights, and the college’s Entrepreneurship, Music Business, International Business, and Executive Education programs, serving nearly 11,000 students, about 200 staff, and more than 200 faculty members.

During his first year as Dean, the college secured funding for faculty support, student scholarships, and capital expansion, including six endowed chairs and professorships, 11 student scholarships, and the first major gift toward the expansion of the Business Learning Community. He also oversaw the launch of the Arch Bond Fund and Student Managed Real Estate Investment Fund, both experiential learning initiatives connecting students with corporate and investment partners.

As Associate Dean, Chatterjee led a 38% increase in graduate enrollment between 2021 and 2025 and oversaw the growth of Terry’s study away programs, which saw a 68% increase in student participation over the same period. He helped create the MS in Business Analytics, which has grown fivefold since its founding in 2018, and led the Full-Time MBA to a No. 1 global ranking in “Value for the Money” from the Financial Times and a top 25 national ranking from U.S News and World Report. He oversaw the launch of the Undergraduate Certificate in Artificial Intelligence, the online Master of Professional Accountancy, the online MS in Business and Artificial Intelligence, and the college’s strategic planning efforts around AI integration across curriculum, research, and operations.

An active researcher, Chatterjee’s work has appeared in the Journal of International Economics, Journal of Development Economics, and European Economic Review, among others. An associate editor of Economic Inquiry, he previously served in the same role at the Journal of Macroeconomics. He is a fellow with the CESifo Research Network and held visiting scholar appointments at the International Monetary Fund, the University of Hamburg, and Ludwig Maximilians Universität. A recipient of UGA’s highest teaching honor, the Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professorship, he also received the Richard Reiff Internationalization Award and the Kamerschen-Hampton Award for outstanding research in economics.

Chatterjee earned his PhD in economics from the University of Washington, his master’s in economics from the University of Delhi, and his bachelor’s in economics from the University of Calcutta.