INSEAD: Dipak C Jain named Dean of INSEAD to succeed J Frank Brown

INSEAD has appointed Dipak C. Jain, Dean Emeritus of Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, as its next dean, succeeding J Frank Brown, who will step down in 2011.

Franz Humer, Chairman of the INSEAD Board, said, “I am pleased that someone of Dipak Jain’s calibre and values will continue to develop the school, as Frank Brown has done, and to help secure its future. Frank built stronger connections with our alumni and with the business community and he achieved greater brand awareness for INSEAD. During his tenure INSEAD opened its third campus in Abu Dhabi and established the Blue Ocean Strategy Institute and the Social Innovation Centre. He also increased the participation of women students in the MBA programme by more than 50 per cent.”

Jain, an American citizen and native of Tezpur, Assam, India, was Kellogg’s Dean from 2001-2009, and where he is the Sandy and Morton Goldman Professor in Entrepreneurial Studies and Professor of Marketing, a chair he has held since 1994. He is a graduate of Guwahati University in India and received a Masters in management science and a PhD in marketing from the University of Texas at Dallas.

“The Board chose Dipak Jain to lead INSEAD into what is fast becoming a new global economic climate, one in which emerging markets are growing at a faster rate than the industrialised mature economies of Europe and North America,” Humer said. “In this environment we need to teach solid business and management skills while being innovative, entrepreneurial and instilling a culture of true sustainability.

“INSEAD’s three campuses, in Europe, Asia and Abu Dhabi, allow us to be physically present in three distinct business and academic environments, benefiting from different views on the ground, rather than one far-removed view from a desk.”

Jain is attracted to INSEAD because it is a global brand in management education. “The values that drive INSEAD, including a deep respect for the power of diversity; a desire to link theory and practice to address important managerial issues; and an entrepreneurial approach to teaching and research, are ideal to meet the opportunities and challenges facing organisations in the coming years. I look forward to working with all INSEAD supporters as we continue to advance the global efforts of this great institution,” Jain said.

As a scholar in marketing and entrepreneurship, Jain has published some 60 articles and three books. He has presented and lectured at universities throughout the world, and is the recipient of numerous awards for teaching and scholarship. Foreign Affairs Advisor to the Prime Minister of Thailand (2002-2006), Jain also received an honorary Doctorate in Economics from Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok in 2009 and from IPADE, Mexico in 2010.

Jain has been a member of review committees at Harvard, UCLA, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Northwestern. He serves on international advisory boards and councils such as the Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration (Chulalongkorn University), the Carey Business School (Johns Hopkins), and American University in Cairo, and Nyenrode University (Netherlands). He is a member of the American Marketing Association and The Institute of Management Sciences, and has consulted with such companies as IBM, UBS, AT&T, Nestle, Abbott, Boeing, Accenture, Thompson Electronics, and American Express.

Jain is currently Executive Editor of the Sasin Journal of Management (Thailand) and a member of the Editorial Board of the Asian Journal of Marketing (Singapore). He has also been a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of American Statistics Association; Management Science; Marketing Science; the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, and the Journal of Marketing Research.

Apart from teaching, Jain is currently involved in two social projects: creating a business school in Bangladesh, focusing on entrepreneurship and small business management, for women from countries such as Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and Pakistan; and starting a fully-fledged university in Angola. He is a director of John Deere, the Northern Trust, Reliance Industries and Media Bank.

“Management Education must include social and environmental elements of the ecosystem,” says Jain. “For global peace and prosperity to come in this world, we have to educate women. These are all values that are central to INSEAD, which has always had a global approach, has emphasised diversity in its faculty, staff, and student body, and strives for innovation backed by intensive research.”

Jain will be introduced at INSEAD’s Leadership Summit Asia 2010 in Singapore on 12 November and will assume his duties as Dean in March 2011.

“On behalf of the INSEAD Board of Directors, I would like to thank Frank Brown for his hard work and contribution to the school during his five-year mandate and to welcome Dipak Jain as the new Dean of The Business School for the World” said Franz Humer.