Shyam Kamath, Ph.D., Dean
Dr. Shyam Kamath has more than 35 years of experience in international education, international development and management, sustainable enterprise formation, global business consulting and university teaching.
He came to CSUMB from St. Mary’s College in Moraga, where he was a professor of global business and economics and associate dean of graduate business and global programs in the School of Economics and Business Administration. As director of St. Mary’s Trans-Global Executive program, he taught graduate students to apply business solutions to social service needs in order to help people at the bottom of the economic pyramid
Prior to his stint there, he spent more than two decades as a professor of international economics and business at CSU East Bay and started the university’s Transnational Executive MBA program.
He previously taught at Dalhlousie and Simon Fraser universities in Canada and the University of Madras in India.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Delhi, a master of business administration degree from the Indian Institute of Management, and a master’s and Ph.D. in economics from Simon Fraser University.
He has served as a consultant to more than 100 firms, non-governmental organizations and nonprofits in 15 countries on four continents, and has been an economic consultant to the governments of Austria, Brazil, China, Indian and Thailand, to the United Nations Development Program, and numerous private foundations.
Elsa Johnson, Administrative Analyst Specialist