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On July 1, Professor John Mahon is scheduled to begin a two-year post as Dean of the College of Business, Public Policy and Health at the University of Maine.
Mahon is a professor in the business college where he is UMaine’s John M. Murphy Chair of International Business Policy and Strategy, an endowed faculty position.
In his six years at the university, Mahon has taken on several administrative positions, including a run as interim provost and is currently director of the School of Policy and International Affairs.
“His professional accomplishments are just remarkable,” said professor Robert Strong, who chaired the search committee that selected Mahon. “He is truly internationally known in the management community.”
Strong said Mahon has made presentations in more than 30 international locations since he came to UMaine in 2001. Mahon was unavailable for comment as he is speaking at a conference on globalism in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. His speech is titled “Immigration and Outsourcing: Enlarging Fault Lines and Aftershocks of Globalization.”
According to Strong, Mahon didn’t seek to be dean of the business college nor had he sought to be the interim provost. However, his expertise in business management has repeatedly made him a candidate for temporary administrative positions. Strong said Mahon will see the business college through the accreditation process, after which the university will begin searching for a full-time dean.
Mahon will be replacing Daniel Innis, the current dean. Innis is leaving after this semester to take a position as dean of the Whittemore School of Business and Economics at the University of New Hampshire.
Dean Robert Cobb of UMaine’s College of Education and Human Development has worked with Mahon, notably on the committee that selected Innis as dean of the business college.
“I don’t know of anybody who has more enthusiasm for his work,” Cobb said. “When he tackles a project or a task, it is with vision and intensity and with a desire to see it through.”
While President Robert Kennedy and Provost Edna Szymanski appointed Mahon to the post, the Board of Trustees for the UMaine System must ratify the decision at its meeting next month.
