Strategic Leadership Team

Qing Hu, Ph.D., Dean

Qing Hu, Dean

Qing Hu has been dean of the Koppelman School of Business at Brooklyn College since July 1, 2020. Previously he served as senior associate dean for academic affairs and innovation and held the rank of professor of information systems in the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College (CUNY). Prior to Baruch, Hu served as associate dean for graduate programs and research, chair of the Supply Chain and Information Systems Department, and Union Pacific Professor in Information Systems in the Ivy College of Business at Iowa State University. Hu also served as chair of the Information Technology and Operations Management Department, Scott Adams Professor of Information Technology, and professor of information systems in the College of Business at Florida Atlantic University.

With background in engineering and technology, Hu has been an innovative and engaging leader in business schools. He has initiated and/or led numerous strategic transformations, curriculum developments, and global collaborations that focus on providing an enriched education experience and building a solid foundation for career success for students. At Iowa State University, he championed experiential learning with live-case teaching, co-designed/led a global supply chain live-case course in which students traversed a global supply chain of a major retailer, and he spearheaded the creation of CyBIZ Lab, a business consulting practice for graduate and undergraduate students. At Baruch College, he initiated and led the development of an M.S. in business analytics program, and he championed the Zicklin Global initiatives that resulted in the creation of dual degree M.S./M.B.A. programs with universities in China, Israel, and Italy. At both institutions, Hu made engaging industry and community in business education one of his top priorities. He established advisory boards at departmental and program levels, and collaborated with the boards on curricular, program, internship, and mentorship initiatives, all aiming at providing the best education and career opportunities for students while enhancing the brand and reputation of the business programs in industry and communities.

Hu is an accomplished scholar on cybersecurity, IT strategy, and digital transformation. He has co-authored over 140 research articles in academic journals, conferences, and books, and has been an invited speaker at universities and academic conferences around the world. His research has been cited over 9,770 times with an h-index of 40, and he is ranked as one of the top 100 information systems scholars in the world, according to a study based on Google Scholar statistics. He won the Citation of Excellence Award twice from Emerald Group Publishing for co-authoring of one of the top articles on management, business, and economics published in 2005–09. Hu is a leading scholar in the world on sociotechnical cybersecurity research. His research on insider threats to organizational digital assets has been frequently cited by academics and reported in the news media. His recent publications about human decision making in the context of corporate computer crimes using neuroscience tools and theories received broad coverage in online and print media.

Education

Ph.D. and M.S., Computer Information Systems, University of Miami; B.E., Mechanical Engineering, Lanzhou University of Technology

Contact

Qing.Hu@brooklyn.cuny.edu
718.951.3166

Daniel Tinkelman, Chair—Accounting

Daniel Tinkelman is chair of the Accounting Department of the Koppelman School of Business. He joined Brooklyn College in 2016 as the Marshall G. Kaplan Chair in Municipal Government Accounting and was promoted to department chair in January, 2019. His prior academic experience includes faculty positions at Lehman College, Pace University, and Hofstra University. His primary teaching responsibilities at Brooklyn College involve the accounting for governments, nonprofit organizations, and consolidations. His prior teaching experience includes financial accounting, financial statement analysis, and auditing. His research has focused on accounting for nonprofit organizations, although he has also published articles dealing with auditor liability, financial statement display, inventory accounting, valuation, and the teaching of accounting. His publications include over 30 peer-reviewed articles, two chapters in scholarly books, and a textbook. His articles have appeared in such journals as Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, Journal of Public Economics, Issues in Accounting Education, Research in Government and Nonprofit Accounting, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, Voluntas, International Journal of Accounting Information Systems, Journal of the American Taxation Association, and Journal of Corporation Law. He has also presented his work at numerous scholarly conferences. He has been a Certified Public Accountant in New York for more than 40 years. Prior to earning his doctorate in accounting at the New York University Stern School of Business, he worked for eight years at Arthur Andersen & Co. as an auditor, and for WPP Group for four years as a financial executive. He continues to do consulting as a forensic accountant.

Education

Ph.D. Accounting, New York University. M.S. Accounting, State University of New York at Albany. B.A. Economics, Harvard College

Contact

202 Whitehead Hall
Daniel.Tinkelman@Brooklyn.cuny.edu

James A. Lynch, Jr., Chair—Business Management

James A. Lynch, Jr. is the chair of the Business Management Department, where he teaches courses including, but not limited to, Workplace Values and Happiness, Negotiation and Conflict Resolution, and Business Law. He has published in such journals as the Journal of Business Systems Governance and Ethics, Journal of Leadership, Accountability and Ethics and the Interdisciplinary Journal of Contemporary Research in Business. He has been a member of the Brooklyn College faculty for over a decade.

His research interests include business ethics, corporate and social responsibility, management training, spirituality in the workplace, and moral leadership.

He is admitted to practice law in New York and has been practicing law for over a quarter of a century, having represented some of America's largest international corporations in his capacity as an attorney with White & Case LLP, Winston & Strawn, and Foster Lynch & Thomas LLP, respectively.

Education

J.D., State University of New York- Buffalo; A.B., Religious Studies, Brown University

Contact

219 Whitehead Hall
jlynch@brooklyn.cuny.edu

Yehuda Klein, Chair—Economics

Yehuda Klein is professor and chair of the Economics Department, where he teaches courses in statistics, ecological economics, and urban sustainability. His research interests include environmental economics and policy, regulatory economics, and applied econometrics. His current research projects address issues related to sustainability and resilience at urban and regional scales. He is currently investigating the impact of green infrastructure on neighborhood and urban electric grids, on the wastewater system, and on urban micro climates.

Education

Ph.D. and M.A., economics, University of California, Berkeley; A.B., political science, Cornell University

Contact

217 Whitehead Hall
yklein@brooklyn.cuny.edu

Sunil Mohanty, Chair—Finance

Sunil Mohanty is the chair of the Finance Department in the Koppelman School of Business. He joined the college in fall 2014 as professor and chair of the Finance and Business Management Department. Prior to his move to Brooklyn College, he was a professor of finance at the Opus College of Business, University of St. Thomas (Minnesota). Previously, Mohanty held full-time faculty positions with Hofstra University and Minnesota State University. He taught in the CFA review program (Level I & II) at the University of St. Thomas. He was nominated twice for the Julie Hays' Teaching Award in the Opus College of Business.

Mohanty has been a Fulbright Scholar, Visiting Research Scholar, and University Scholar. He has published more than 30 articles in scholarly journals. Several of his articles have been published in top-tier academic journals, including the Journal of Business, International Journal of Money and Finance, Journal of Business, Finance and Accounting, Energy Economics, Journal of Financial Research and the Financial Review. He has over 700 citations of his research papers.

Mohanty serves on the editorial boards of four scholarly journals: the Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, Journal of Commodity Markets, Managerial Finance and the European Research Studies Journal. Previously, he served as a track chair twice at annual meetings of the Eastern Finance Association. In addition, he worked as a consultant to Minnesota Bankers Association in Minnesota.