Earlier this month, a new dean took the reins at New York University’s Stern School of Business. Peter Blair Henry, an expert in international economics, was named Stern’s new dean in July 2009 and assumed the deanship on January 15th. In a recent letter to the NYU Stern community, Henry outlined his vision for the school.
“Let me say, straightaway, that the NYU Stern Deanship is the only one I would have taken,” Henry began. He comes to Stern from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, where he was a professor of international economics and the associate director of that school’s Center for Global Business and the Economy.
Henry went on to say that he feels privileged to assume his role at a time that he calls “an inflection point in the global economy” following the global financial crisis, adding that Stern is in a strong position and poised to “convene, shape, and drive the great conversation between business and society.”
National economies are being reshaped, and emerging economies are the future, Henry continued. “And as a macroeconomist who, as a child, emigrated from Jamaica to the U.S. and went on to build a career examining emerging markets and the forces that shape the global economy, I am eager and ready to share my perspective,” he wrote.
In addition to his tenure at Stanford, Henry served as leader of the Obama Transition Team’s review of the International Monetary Fund, World Bank and other lending agencies and as an economic advisor to governments from the Caribbean to Africa. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Henry praised the contribution made by the school’s faculty during the recent global economic crisis, which included real-time analyses and policy recommendations to restore financial stability. “The depth and breadth of our academic excellence, coupled with our location in the global hub of New York City, puts us in an ideal position to grapple with challenging questions, confront theories with facts, and to bring the Stern problem-solving approach into our classrooms as well as into the dialogue with corporate leaders and policy maker,” he wrote.
He promised those who choose to join the Stern community a business education that is rigorous and dynamic but also collaborative and that prepares leaders who see the big picture and ask the right questions. “You can expect to continue to work extremely hard, and in teams, because thoughtful leaders working together, finding answers and building consensus to move forward, will chart the course to a prosperous 21st century,” he concluded.
To read Dean Henry’s letter in its entirety, click here.
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