Meet the Provost
Mark S. Kamlet has been Provost of Carnegie Mellon since 2000, and was reappointed in 2005, at which time he was also named Senior Vice President.
Kamlet has worked with the deans and department heads to strengthen the university's academic programs, retain and recruit world-class faculty, enhance its many research programs, centers and institutes, and create new academic and research initiatives leveraging Carnegie Mellon's talent and expertise. A leading expert in economics and public policy, Kamlet has also worked with local government and with Carnegie Mellon's many outreach initiatives to foster economic, educational and cultural development in southwest Pennsylvania.
Kamlet joined Carnegie Mellon's central administrative team after a successful eight-year tenure as dean of the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management (now Heinz College). Under Kamlet, the Heinz School's endowment increased more than 80 percent and its research funding grew by nearly 400 percent.
Kamlet became a member of the faculty in 1976 and was named a professor in 1989 with a joint appointment in the Heinz School and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (H&SS). Before becoming dean of the Heinz School in 1993, Kamlet was associate dean of H&SS and head of its Department of Social and Decision Sciences.
With his research focusing on the economics of health care, quantitative methodology and public finance, Kamlet has authored more than 75 published papers and two books. He received the outstanding publication award from the Association of Public Policy and Management for his work on the federal budgetary process.
Kamlet served on a U.S. Public Health Service panel to produce national guidelines on applying cost-effectiveness analysis in health care; and on three National Institute of Health (NIH) consensus panels to make recommendations on national policies relating to prenatal genetic testing, neonatal screening and end of life care. He serves on the Institute of Medicine's Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Board, and the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Poison Prevention and Control. He was recently appointed by the director of NIH to be a member of the Public Access Working Group, which will monitor the impact of open access to results of NIH-funded research. He also has served as chairman of the board of Carnegie Learning and iCarnegie.
A board member of several organizations, Kamlet was instrumental in drafting rules and procedures for the Allegheny County Executive and County Council, and led the county's transition team in the area of information technology.
He received his bachelor's degree in mathematics from Stanford University in 1974. Kamlet earned master's degrees in economics (1976) and statistics (1977) and a Ph.D. in economics (1980) from the University of California at Berkeley.
