Andrew J. Policano has been Dean of The Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine since August, 2004. Prior to that, he was Dean of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business. During the ten years while he was dean, the School’s endowment rose from around $6 million to over $100m.

The Paul Merage School is highly recognized and acclaimed. In 2006, The Wall Street Journal ranked the school 6th in Information Technology; in 2003, Business Week ranked the intellectual contributions of the faculty 5th and in 2008, the Financial Times ranked the Executive MBA program 11th in the U.S. In the last four years, the School has received over $50 million in pledges to support its vision and mission.

Policano has a Ph.D. in Economics from Brown University and a B.S. in Mathematics from Stony Brook University. His work in macroeconomics has been broadly published and he is an award winning teacher. He serves on the Board of Directors of two publicly traded companies, is a member of the Board of Directors of the Graduate Management Admissions Council and serves on the Investment Committee of the Orange County Community Foundation.