The Levin Faculty

In keeping with its 21^st century academic orientation, the Levin Institute is creating a faculty network composed of leading scholars from both within and outside the State University of New York, who serve as Fellows of the Institute – as well as a much larger group of scholars who participate actively in the intellectual life of Levin as educators and researchers. This engaged faculty is drawn from both management and the social sciences.

In addition, the faculty includes a broad range of experienced practitioners from in and around the Greater New York area. To ensure that the nature and quality of classroom instruction truly reflects the school's global and cross-cultural focus, Levin employs faculty drawn from leading institutions around the world, utilizing the latest in educational technologies.

Fellows

Denis Simon

Dr. Simon is a Professor at Penn State University. He was the founding Provost at The Levin Institute and was previously Dean of the Lally School of Management and Technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and has held full-time faculty positions at M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management and the Fletcher School at Tufts University. He holds a doctorate in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.A. in Asian Studies from SUNY New Paltz. He has worked in the private sector as a management consultant in senior leadership positions for Accenture and the Monitor Group in East Asia, and is a recognized authority on China and the international impact of new technologies. Recently Dr. Simon was awarded the title "Honorary Citizen of Dalian," the 11th American to be given this honor.

Lynne Rosansky

Dr. Rosansky is the Provost and Chief Academic Officer at the School for International Training in Brattleboro, VT> She served for four years as Vice Provost at Levin Institute, where she co-created a number of Levin’s current programs. Dr. Rosansky was previously President of Hult International Business School (the former Arthur D. Little School of Management).She has served on the faculties of Babson College; Brandeis University and Simmons College. She has also led a successful consulting practice focused on management and leadership development and served on non-profit boards of directors including Women in World Trade and the Institute for Intercultural Studies. She earned a PhD from Boston University and an MBA from Babson College.

Irving Wladawsky Berger

Dr. Berger is Chairman Emeritus at the IBM Academy of Technology and is a Visiting Professor of Engineering Systems at MIT. At MIT, he is involved in multi-disciplinary research and teaching activities focused on how information technology is helping transform business organizations and the institutions of society. He is also a Strategic Advisor to Citigroup on innovation and technology initiatives and an Adjunct Professor in the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group at the Imperial College Business School. Dr. Berger worked at IBM for 37 years where he was responsible for identifying emerging technologies and marketplace developments in the IT industry.

Dr. Sheldon Weinig

Dr. Sheldon Weinig is Professor of Engineering at Columbia University, as well as Stony Brook University. Founder of Advanced Materials Research, Shelly Weinig enjoyed a long and successful career as a technology entrepreneur, eventually selling his multinational firm to Sony, where he remained as a Vice President until his retirement. At Levin, Dr. Weinig serves as Faculty and Coach in the JumpStart NYC program and Chair of the JumpStart NYC Advisory Panel.

Dr. Manuel Escudero

Dr. Escudero served as Director of International Programs at the Levin Institute from 2008-10. Since May, 2010, he now serves as Dean of the Daouste School of Business in Bilbao, Spain. While on a posting with the United Nations Global Compact Office, Dr. Escudero served as Special Adviser, Global Compact;Head, PRME (Principles for Responsible Management Education) Secretariat; and Executive Director, Research Center for the Global Compact

Academic Faculty

Dr. Maryalice Mazzara

Dr. Mazzara is the Director of Academic Affairs. She received her doctorate in International Education from Columbia University. Prior to Levin, she was the Director of Education for Global Film Initiative, a non-profit organization promoting cross-cultural learning through the medium of film and was Education Attaché for the Government of Québec (New York office), responsible for Québec academic relations for the office’s region of eight states and DC. Dr. Mazzara was also Director of Teacher Training Outreach for The Harriman Institute’s (Columbia University) U. S. Department of Education’s East European, Eurasian, and Russian National Resource Center for ten years. Her consulting works include cross-cultural training programs for international corporations and education seminars for non-profits including the Soros Foundation in Mongolia and The Business Alliance in Vietnam.

Mike DiGiacomo

Mr. Digiacomo is a graduate of Yale College and Fordham Law School, where he has been an adjunct professor. Mr. DiGiacomo came to the Levin Institute after a career in law and international finance, including positions at major Wall Street firms and service as the chief financial officer of a publishing company. He currently services as the Vice President of Administration.

Dr. Cong Cao

Dr. Cao has a PhD in sociology from Columbia University in 1997 and has worked at the University of Oregon and the National University of Singapore. Dr. Cao is interested in the social studies of science and technology with a focus on China. He is the author of China's Scientific Elite (London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon 2004), a study of those Chinese scientists holding elite membership in the Chinese Academy of Sciences. His journal publications have appeared in Science, China Quarterly, Asian Survey, Minerva, among others. His current research interests include China's S&T manpower and US-China relations in S&T. He is a Research Fellow is a senior research associate with The Levin Institute.

Global Business Faculty

Dr. Sris Chatterjee

Dr. Chatterjee is an Associate Professor in the Finance and Business Economics Area at Fordham University’s Schools of Business where he is currently the Area Chair. He has taught a variety of courses including Mergers and Acquisitions, Principles of Modern Finance and Behavioral Finance for MBAs, executive MBAs, and the undergraduate business students.He was the 1995 recipient of the Gladys and Henry Crown Award for Faculty Excellence at Fordham GBA. Prof. Chatterjee got his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (Kharagpur) and his Postgraduate Diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Management (Calcutta). He received his M. Phil. and Ph. D. degrees from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business. Prior to joining Fordham University, Prof. Chatterjee taught at SUNY (Buffalo), Rutgers University and Columbia University.

Guy F. Erb

Director, LECG, LLC, an expert services firm. MSc (Econ.) degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science, a BA from the University of California at Berkeley and a diploma from the University of Madrid, Spain. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, New York. Mr. Erb has experience in two highly regulated industries; investment banking and money services businesses. After working at Goldman Sachs & Co. in New York for four years, he then led the team that opened Goldman Sachs Mexico in 1994, where he served as chief operating officer for nearly three years and then as vice chairman of the Mexico City office for two years. Mr. Erb has served on several boards of directors, testified before the US house and senate and the International Trade Commission, and held senior US government positions. He founded and was president and CEO of RapidMoney Corporation, a money transmittal company that developed an advanced point-of-sale system for the personal money transfers of migrant workers. Mr. Erb has served on several boards of directors, testified before the US house and senate and the International Trade Commission, and held senior US government positions. He founded and was president and CEO of RapidMoney Corporation, a money transmittal company that developed an advanced point-of-sale system for the personal money transfers of migrant workers.

Allan Hackney

Consultant; formerly held the following positions: CIO at AIG; SVP at Bank of America and CIO of GE Capital, Japan. He graduated from Colgate University with a BA in Computer and Information Science. Professionally and experientially he brings considerable knowledge and in-depth experience to the Information Systems, Operations and Finance functions. He has knowledge of a broad range of global consumer and commercial financial services with particular depth in credit card operations, distribution finance, and banking products. As a staunch believer in the value of in training and education, Mr. Hackney created innovative immersion “boot camps” and diverse experiential assignments that revitalized GE’s prestigious Information Management Leadership Program (IMLP). He also developed and deployed Six Sigma quality awareness training as the first Quality Leader for GE Capital’s technology organization.

Jane E. Hughes

Consultant. MBA, NYU; MA in International Relations, Johns Hopkins University SAIS; BA, Princeton University. Professor Hughes has taught graduate courses in Globalization, International Banking, Foreign Exchange Markets, International Economic Environment, International Financial Markets, and Accounting & Financial Analysis at Brandeis University and Hult International Business School. Publications include: International Banking: Text and Cases, with Dr. Scott B. MacDonald (Addison Wesley Longman, 2002). Chinese edition published in 2004. Separating Fools From Their Money: A History of Great American Financial Scandals, with Dr. Scott B. MacDonald (Transaction, 2006). Carnival on Wall Street: Global Financial Markets in the 1990s, with Dr. Scott B. MacDonald (John Wiley & Sons, 2003) New Tigers and Old Elephants: The Development Game in the 1990s and Beyond, with Dr. Scott B. MacDonald and David L. Crum (Transaction Publishers, 1995; paperback edition, 2001) Latin American Debt in the 1990s, co-editor. (Praeger Publishers, 1991) Sovereign Risk (Euromoney Publications, 1988) as well as numerous articles and op-ed contributions.

Dr. Lewis Mandell

Dr. Mandell is Professor of Finance and Managerial Economics and former Dean of the School of Management at the University at Buffalo. The author of 21 books, he is best known for his lifetime of research into consumer financial behavior and financial literacy. Dr. Mandell began his career at the University of Michigan where he ran the nationwide Survey of Consumer Finances. He has served in government as Director of Economic Research for the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, has founded and run two successful corporations and has served on several corporate boards including those of Citigroup’s mutual funds, which encompassed more than 50 funds and $8 billion in assets. In 2008 Dr. Mandell was given the SUNY Chancellor’s award for outstanding teaching.

Dr. Phil Perry

Dr. Perry has been on the faculty of the School of Management at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York (UB) since 1979. He received both his MBA and Ph.D. degrees in Business Administration (with a major in Finance) from the University of California at Berkeley, and also holds a B.S. in Engineering Physics from Cornell University and an M.S. in Planetary Science from the California Institute of Technology.

Dr. Zora Thomova

Dr. Thomova is working with the Levin Institute teaching Investment and Financial Decision Making. She also works with SUNY IT at Utica where she serves as the Chair of Mathematics, Associate Professor, and Student Advisor.At SUNY IT, Dr. Thomova also teaches the Applied Math curriculum and service courses from the freshman level to graduate level. She is responsible for the entire curriculum for the Applied Mathematics major, Mathematics minor, and for all service courses for the Engineering and Business schools. She serves on the Curriculum Committee, Graduate Council Committee, and the Academic Affairs Committee, and is a key person in submitting grant proposal to State Education Department for hosting Summer Institute 2007 for the local mathematics/science teachers. Dr. Thomova earned her Ph.D. from the University of Montreal and holds an MS from the Czech Technical University in Prague.