Dean Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Lally School of Management | Troy, New York We are pleased to announce that Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) has selected Liad Wagman, PhD, to serve as its next Dean of the Lally School of Management effective June 1, 2024. Wagman joins RPI from the Illinois Institute of Technology (Illinois Tech), where he currently serves as Dean of the Stuart School of Business. He is also Professor of Economics and the John and Mae Calamos Dean Endowed Chair at the Stuart School of Business, with an affiliate professor appointment at Illinois Tech’s Lewis College of Science and Letters. Under Wagman’s leadership, Illinois Tech’s Stuart School of Business tripled its student body to more than 1,000 students; revamped and enhanced its messaging; underwent a successful AACSB reaccreditation review; significantly grew its industry advisory board; and launched a number of popular STEM-oriented undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral programs at the interface of business and technology.Wagman is Academic Affiliate at the International Center for Law and Economics and was Senior Economic and Technology Advisor of the United States Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Office of Policy Planning. At the FTC, he led a large economic study under two White House Administrations, covering over 1,000 mergers and acquisitions. He was a Competition Fellow at the Data Catalyst Institute, a Visiting Associate Professor of Executive Education and Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, a Visiting Scholar at the Duke University Economics Department, a research fellow at Duke’s Computer Science Department and Duke’s Social Sciences Research Institute, and worked at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at the Freeman Spogli Institute at Stanford University. Wagman’s scholarly research is in the areas of industrial organization, technological entrepreneurship, information economics, and law and economics. His research has been published in prominent academic journals across business-relevant disciplines, including in economics, marketing, finance, and operations. Wagman has received many awards, including Duke’s Program for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences Fellowship, Illinois Tech’s Education and Research Initiative Award, the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers Best Paper Award, and the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Outstanding Paper Award. He has served as an expert witness and has advised both startups and large private sector firms. Wagman holds two bachelor’s degrees from the University of North Carolina in computer science and mathematics, a master’s degree in computer science from Stanford, and a master’s and doctorate in economics from Duke.Kate Barry led this search with Elizabeth Dorr Weithman.Please refer to the RPI press release for more information.