Mark Zupan (academic)

Mark Zupan (born 1959)^[1] is the President of Alfred University in Alfred, New York.^[2]

Zupan had been the John M. Olin Distinguished Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Director of the Bradley Policy Research Center and a dean at University of Rochester's Simon Business School.^[3][4]

Zupan also has served as a Director/Trustee for Financial Institutions, Steuben Trust, Constellation Brands,^[5] the Farash Corporation, PAETEC Holdings, Stocker Yale, and the Harley School.

Zupan began his tenure as the 14th President of Alfred University on July 1, 2016. He was named to the position by the University's Board of Directors on February 10, 2016. His inauguration took place on October 22, 2016. Zupan has outlined his goals^[6] for the university, and shared his thoughts about ways Alfred University can partner with the local community in the Hornell Evening Tribune.^[7]

He was dean at the Simon Business School at the University of Rochester from 2004 to 2013. Zupan championed an $85 million fundraising campaign that added ten new endowed professorships, increased philanthropic support for scholarships by over 300 percent, and more than doubled annual discretionary giving.^[8] He established an undergraduate business program in partnership with the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He launched specialized MS programs in finance, marketing, accounting, management, and medical management in Rochester, and MS in finance and management programs in New York City, doubling overall graduate student enrollments at Simon.^[8]

Zupan served as dean and professor of economics at the University of Arizona's Eller College of Management from 1997 to 2003.

Before his appointment at Arizona, Zupan taught at the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business, where he also served as associate dean of master's programs. He was a teaching fellow in Harvard's Department of Economics while pursuing his doctoral studies at MIT, and he has been a visiting faculty member at the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College.

Zupan has a BA degree in economics from Harvard University and a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Zupan's fields of specialization include industrial organization, regulation, and political economy. He has published over 20 refereed articles in leading scholarly journals. His commentaries have appeared in media outlets such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, BusinessWeek.com, Huffington Post, Kiplinger, Financial Times of London, San Francisco Chronicle and the Democrat and Chronicle. Zupan is the co-author of two books, Microeconomic Theory and Applications (with E. K. Browning) published by John Wiley and Sons, and Microeconomic Cases and Applications (with T.W. Gilligan and A.M. Marino), published by HarperCollins. In 2017, Cambridge University Press published his latest book titled Inside Job: How Government Insiders Subvert the Public Interest.

Zupan's research interests include water policy, the influence of economics and ideological preferences on the political behavior of voters and elected officials, industrial organization, regulation and political economy. He has received research grants from the National Science Foundation and the Center for International Business Education and Research at the University of Southern California.

Zupan is also the author of numerous scholarly articles which have appeared in publications including the American Economic Review, Journal of Law and Economics, RAND Journal of Economics, Public Choice, and Journal of Regulatory Economics. His opinion pieces have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, the Financial Times of London, Los Angeles Times, Arizona Republic, BusinessWeek.com, Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, NY) and San Francisco Chronicle. He has served as co-editor of the journal Economic Inquiry, and has also been on the editorial boards of Public Choice, Journal of Business Economics, and Research in Law and Economics.

Fields of Specialization:

Industrial Organization

Regulation

Political Economy

International Development Award, Center for International Business Education and Research, University of Southern California, 1995-1997

Dean’s Fellowship, School of Business Administration, University of Southern California, September 1989-August 1992

Zumberge Innovative Research Fund Grant, University of Southern California, July 1990-June 1991

National Science Foundation Fellowship, September 1981-May 1984

AACSB Board of Directors, 2010-Present

AACSB Re-Accreditation Committee Chair, Darden School of Business, University of Virginia

AACSB Re-Accreditation Committee, Graduate School of Management, UC Riverside

AACSB Re-Accreditation Committee, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University

GMAC, Board of Directors, 2006-2009

Economic Development Strategy Team of Monroe County, 2004-2006

LEAD Council of Deans, January 2001-2005

AACSB Re-Accreditation Committee, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, 2002

Teaching Team, FACS Summer Institute for Journalists, 1999-2000

Co-Editor, Economic Inquiry, 1992-1997

Member, Editorial Board, Economic Inquiry, 1990-1992

Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Business Economics, 1992-2000

Member, Editorial Board, Public Choice, 1990-2003

Member, Editorial Board, Research in Law and Economics, 1993-1999

Coordinator, Economic Inquiry-sponsored conference on Economics and Sociology in honor of Gary Becker and James Coleman, 1995

Coordinator, Economic Inquiry-sponsored conference on Empirical Advances in Political Economic in honor of George Stigler and Gordon Tullock, 1993

Referee for American Economic Review, Econometrics, Journal of Law and Economics, Journal of Political Economy, Journal of Public Economics, National Science Foundation, Quarterly Journal of Economics, and RAND Journal of Economics

Board member, Financial Institutions, Incorporated, 2021-present

Board member, Steuben Trust, 2017-2021

Board member, Western New York Regional Economic Development Council, 2016-present

Board Member, Harley School, 2008-2015

Board Member, Constellation Brands, 2007-2015

Board Member, Farash Corporation Board, 2007-2012

Board Member, PAETEC, 2006-2011

Board Member, The Communications Institute, 2006-2009

Board Member, Stocker-Yale, 2005-2007

Member, St. Michael’s Development Committee, 2000-2003

Board Member, Greater Tucson Economic Council, 1998-2003

Board Member, Northern Trust Bank of Arizona, 2000-2003

Member, Tucson Breakfast Club, 1998-2003

Chair and Cabinet Member, United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona, Campaign 2000

Board Member, University of Arizona Science and Technology Park, 1998-2003

Omicron Delta Kappa, Alfred University, 2017

Burlington Resources Foundation Faculty Achievement Award for Outstanding Scholarship, University of Southern California (campus-wide), 1992

Golden Apple Teaching Award, School of Business Administration, University of Southern California, 1989

Beta Gamma Sigma Faculty Initiate, School of Business Administration, University of Southern California, 1988

Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Teaching Prize, Harvard University (campus-wide), 1985

Allyn Young Teaching Prize, Economics Department, Harvard University, 1985

Allyn Young Teaching Prize, Economics Department, Harvard University, 1984