Dr Ashwani Monga has been appinted as the new Chancellor at the University of Missouri–St. Louis, effective Jan. 1, 2027. Dr. Monga currently serves as the executive vice chancellor and chief academic officer at the University System of Georgia (USG). Dr. Monga is also a professor of marketing at the Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research in consumer psychology appears in top marketing journals, and he coauthored the book “Becoming a Consumer Psychologist”. Prior to his time at USG, Dr. Monga served at Rutgers for eight years, first at Rutgers Business School as professor of marketing, department chair, and vice dean for academic programs and innovations, and then as executive vice chancellor and provost at Rutgers-Newark. He also served at the University of South Carolina as associate professor of marketing where he first earned tenure; and at the University of Texas at San Antonio where he was assistant professor of marketing. Dr. Monga earned a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, an MBA at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and a Bachelor of Technology at the National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal. Read more.