Robert S. Sullivan

Dr. Robert S. Sullivan joined the Rady School of Management at UC San Diego as its founding dean in January 2003. He is an expert on entrepreneurship, knowledge management, and operations management. He has successfully recruited top-tier faculty from the University of Chicago, MIT, New York University, Northwestern, Princeton, Stanford, the Wharton School, and Yale. In 2011, he was elected vice-chair/chair-elect of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International), the premier accrediting body for business education. Before joining UC San Diego, Dr. Sullivan was dean of the Kenan-Flagler Business School of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He has also served in many roles at the University of Texas, including director of the IC2 Institute and the J. Marion West Chair for Constructive Capitalism in the university’s Graduate School of Business. In addition, he served as dean of the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Sullivan volunteered with the Peace Corps in Ethiopia, where he also lectured at the College of Business Administration at what is now Addis Ababa University. He earned his Ph.D. in operations management from Pennsylvania State University, his M.S. in production management and quantitative methods from Cornell University, and his B.S. in mathematics from Boston College.