Professorship for Sunder Kekre

The Goan Network

PANAJI

Indian-origin scholar, teacher, researcher and consultant, Sunder Kekre, will be the first one to receive the Vasantrao Shrinivas Dempo Reflective Chair professorship at Carnegie Mellon University.

This professorship was made possible by a US $ 3 million gift endowed by Shrinivas V Dempo, chairman of the Dempo Group of Companies in the university’s Tepper School of Business.

The naming of Prof Kekre comes from the understanding that the Vasantrao Shrinivas Dempo Reflective Chair would be occupied by a Tepper School of Business professor, who would support teaching and research on societal scale phenomena that is relevant to India.

“We cannot have a more fitting scholar, academic and researcher than Dr Kekre as the inaugural recipient of the Vasantrao Shrinivas Dempo Reflective Chair at the Tepper School of Business. Dr Kekre had a hand in making me what I am today in his former avatar as my professor during my master’s programme at Carnegie Mellon University’GSIA,” said Shrinivas V Dempo