David De Kremer
Nearly two years after losing its business school dean to Illinois Tech, Northeastern University has found a successor in David De Cremer of the National University of Singapore. The President and Professor of Management of NUS' Business School will start his new job at the D'Amore-McKim School of Business on 1 July.
A former professor at the University of Cambridge's Judge Business School, De Cremer succeeds “Raj” Echambadi, who joined Illinois Tech as president in August 2021. Since then, D'Amore-McKim has been led by longtime economics professor Emery Trahan as interim dean.
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A NEW DEAN FOR THE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS DU AMOR-MKIM
De Cremer, founder and director of the Center for AI Technology for Humanity at NUS, will take over a school with annual net revenues of more than $150 million, with modest surpluses in recent years. With 4,779 undergraduate students, the school's net undergraduate revenue exceeds graduate revenue by three times. D'Amore-McKim has 1,418 graduate students and 205 faculty members, as well as more than 600 associates in nearly 60 countries and 110 cities around the world.
“I am honored and excited to be the new Dunton Family Dean at the D'Amore-McKim School of Business,” De Cremer said in a statement. “Working alongside the many talented people at Northeastern University, I look forward to building a school that prioritizes a passion for growth, thinking across boundaries and creating impact in everything we do.”
De Cremer's research and teaching focuses on human behavior in organizations, especially on leading organizational change and the use of emerging technologies to drive digital transformation. It also advocates the need for interdisciplinary approaches to gain a deeper understanding of the drivers of innovation, trust and equity to positively impact industry and society.
A POWERFUL PARTNER FOR THE PROMOTION OF WORKING CULTURES
David Madigan, Northeastern's provost and senior vice president for academic affairs, expects De Kremer to rethink the ways in which a D'Amore-McKim education will be delivered based on the university's focus on experiential learning and the humanities—the combination of technology, data and human literacy that students need to be successful in the changing world.
“David's experience combining the behavioral sciences with a focus on new advanced and emerging technologies will uniquely position him to advance Northeastern University's ethos of preparing graduates for the careers of the future,” Madigan added in a statement.
De Cremer is a strong advocate of promoting and researching work cultures that respect people as 'whole' people, with a particular focus on wellbeing, health and motivation. “I am confident that this will inspire our students to reach their full potential as future leaders and global citizens,” said De Cremer.
Previously, he was the KPMG Endowed Professor of Management Studies at Cambridge Judge Business School in the UK and a Fellow at St. Edmunds College, University of Cambridge.
In addition to his academic work, De Cremer is considered a global thought leader in management by Thinkers50, a best-selling author, frequent keynote speaker and business consultant. He has also served as associate editor for leading journals such as Academy of Management Annals and Social Justice Research and is on the Founding Editor list of the journal AI and Ethics.
Drawing on his interdisciplinary and international perspective, De Cremer said he looks forward to serving Northeastern by further promoting and developing D'Amore-McKim as a “global business school for tomorrow.”
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