Chicago: An Indian-origin professor has been appointed as the interim dean of Kellogg School of Management in the US.
Sunil Chopra, currently the senior associate dean for curriculum and teaching at Kellogg, will take over as interim dean effective September 1, a Kellogg statement said here.
Kellogg is currently looking for a successor to Jain, who had held the top job at the business school in Northwestern University for nearly 8 years.
Earlier this month, the school had announced that Jain would resign from the dean's job effective September 1, 2009.
He would return to the Kellogg faculty after a year's leave.
"We will soon begin a national search for a successor to Dean Dipak Jain, who will step down September 1. I am confident that Kellogg will continue to flourish under Sunil's leadership as interim dean while we conduct the search," Provost Daniel Linzer said.