Mark Kamlet
University Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Chair of the Graduate Committee, and Provost Emeritus, Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy & Technology
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Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Bio
Mark S. Kamlet is University Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Chair of the Graduate Committee, and Provost Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon. He joined CMU in 1976 and served as department head of Social and Decision Sciences (1990-93), dean of the Heinz College (School of Public Policy and Management and School of Information Systems Management, 1993-2000), and interim director of the Institute for Politics and Strategy (2021-23).
From 2000 to 2014, Kamlet served as provost (chief academic officer) and executive vice president. In this role, he oversaw the research and educational activities of campus, as well as space, facilities, and computing infrastructures. He was especially engaged in the university's technology commercialization activities, the growing internationalization of the university's footprint, and the role of technology in education.
He serves on the boards of various for-profit and not-for-profit organizations and has served on the board of five start-ups in the technology-enhanced learning space. Kamlet has served on study panels of the National Academy of Science, the National Institutes for Health, and the National Academy of Medicine. He is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Kamlet earned his Bachelor's degree in mathematics from Stanford. He has a Master's in mathematical statistics, a Master's in economics, and Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at Berkeley.