Sevin Yeltekin (left) and Sarah Peyre

The Simon Business School and the Warner School of Education started the school year with new deans.

Former Carnegie Mellon University economist Sevin Yeltekin is the eighth dean at Simon and the first woman to lead the school. And Sarah Peyre, mostly recently the director of an innovative education program at the Medical Center, is the new dean at Warner. Both appointments were effective July 1.

Sevin Yeltekin

A highly respected macroeconomics scholar, Yeltekin was the Rohet Tolani Distinguished Professor of Economics in the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon, where she was also senior associate dean of education, advancing the academic and student experience for the school’s undergraduate and graduate programs.

Yeltekin is well known for her research in the design of sustainable monetary and fiscal policies in environments where policymakers and the public have different levels of information. She founded multiple interdisciplinary research initiatives at Tepper, including Health Tech and Analytics, Inclusive Growth, Sustainability and the Tepper Blockchain Initiative.

Yeltekin succeeds Andrew Ainslie, who served as Simon’s dean for six years. She received her bachelor’s degree in economics and mathematics from Wellesley College and her master’s and doctoral degrees in economics from Stanford University.

She began her career as a member of the faculty at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University before joining Carnegie Mellon as an assistant professor of economics in 2005.

She has served as an associate editor at four journals: Operations Research, Journal of Monetary Economics, Macroeconomic Dynamics, and Quantitative Economics.

Yeltekin’s connection to Rochester precedes her appointment as dean. Since 2012, she has been a member of the advisory board for the Carnegie Rochester NYU Series on Public Policy. A semiannual event rotating among the three universities, the series encourages the interchange of scientific ideas among analysts with different approaches and offers academic economists greater understanding of practitioners’ environments.

Sarah Peyre

Peyre comes to her new position at the Warner School from the Medical Center, where she was associate dean for innovative education and executive director of its Institute for Innovative Education.

Peyre succeeds acting dean Brian Brent, the Earl B. Taylor Professor at Warner. She joined the University in 2011 and also holds faculty appointments as professor of surgery, nursing, medical humanities, and bioethics. She is a national expert in the field of simulation and the development of educational innovations that support collaborative health-care models. Her work in interprofessional education includes curriculum development on disparities in health care, leadership, and technology. Her educational research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, Josiah Macy Foundation, Burroughs Welcome Foundation, and others.

As executive director of the Institute for Innovative Education, she led advances in health professions education through simulation, adaptive technology, team science, and novel approaches to information and education delivery. Through a mix of services that includes the Miner Library and the Center for Experiential Learning, the institute supports the educational mission of the School of Medicine and Dentistry, School of Nursing, Eastman Institute of Oral Health, Strong Hospital, and the Faculty Practice Group. Prior to joining the University, Peyre served as the director of education and research for the STRATUS Center for Medical Simulation at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and as assistant professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School.

She received her bachelor’s degree in sociology from the University of California at Berkeley and her master’s degree in medical education and doctorate in educational psychology from the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California.