The Asia School of Business (ASB) has appointed Joseph Cherian as chief executive officer, president and dean.
Cherian, who was previously deputy CEO, succeeds Sanjay Sarma, who will return to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Sarma has also taken on a new role as a member of the ASB’s board of governors.
The school announced Cherian’s promotion in a posting on its website on May 23 and also named him as a distinguished professor.
ASB, headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, is a collaboration between the MIT Sloan School of Management and Malaysia’s central bank.
Cherian has been working with Asia Asset Management on various portfolio management-related research projects since 2015 and was appointed as the magazine’s academic adviser in October 2019.
He holds an undergraduate degree in electrical engineering from MIT, and a masters and doctorate in finance from Cornell, where he is a member (emeritus) of the Johnson Dean’s Advisory Council.
Before joining academia, he was managing director, global head, and chief investment officer in the quantitative strategies group of Credit Suisse Alternative Investments in New York, with direct responsibility for more than US$67 billion of client assets.
