New York University President Andrew Hamilton and Provost Katherine Fleming named Angie Kamath, university dean at the City University of New York (CUNY), as dean of NYU’s School of Professional Studies (SPS), effective July 1.
“SPS has consistently innovated new ways to bring students together with key global industries, professions, and communities,” Hamilton said. “And that is why we see Angie Kamath as such a good fit — she impressed us deeply with her entrepreneurial energy; the spirit and vision she had brought to her role at CUNY; her experience and record of achievement across sectors; her focus on students and their success; her understanding of the connection between education, workforce development, social mobility, and economic development; the importance she attaches to data and metrics in her policy-making, program evaluation, and objective-setting; and the clarity and force with which she articulates her ambitions for the school, its faculty, its students, and its staff. We are very pleased that she will be joining us at NYU, and we’re confident that SPS will be in good hands under Angie’s leadership.”
Since her appointment as university dean at CUNY in 2017, Kamath has had a leadership role in continuing education, career readiness and developing student supports; built partnerships with the private, public and non-profit sectors to create pipelines for a diverse, local workforce and raised more than $20 million for strategic, industry-informed initiatives in workforce development.
Prior to her appointment at CUNY, Kamath was executive director of Per Scholas, a Bronx, New York-based, not-for-profit whose mission is to provide tuition-free skills training and access to employer networks to individuals often excluded from work in tech. Previously, she served as assistant commissioner and deputy commissioner of the New York City Department of Small Business Services, where she oversaw 16 federally-funded Workforce1 Career Centers and a staff that helped place over 25,000 New Yorkers in jobs annually. Before her New York City government appointments, she was executive director of StreetWise Partners Inc, which provides job training and mentoring services to unemployed and underemployed individuals. Earlier posts included serving as an adjunct professor at SUNY Purchase and positions at the Center for Applied Research, the Asian Development Bank, and Salomon Smith Barney / Citigroup.
She received a Bachelor of Science degree in business management and applied economics from Cornell University and a Master’s in public policy degree from Harvard University’s Kennedy School.
