On July 1st , 2007, Lehigh University welcomed Dr. Paul Richard Brown as Dean of the College of Business and Economics. Prior to coming to Lehigh, Brown spent over 20 years at NYU Stern School of Business, where he held a variety of senior academic and administrative positions at both the school and university level. He most recently was the associate dean of Executive MBA Programs and academic director of TRIUM, NYU Stern's global executive MBA program in alliance with the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and HEC School of Management, Paris.

He was a past chair of the Department of Accounting, Taxation and Business Law at NYU Stern, and a professor of accounting. Dean Brown received his Bachelor of Arts from Franklin and Marshall College and his Doctor of Philosophy as well as his Masters of Professional Accountancy, both in Accounting, from the University of Texas at Austin. He was licensed as a Certified Public Accountant in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania .

Watch Brown discuss Lehigh's undergraduate program in his first Webcast

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