NYU School of Professional Studies Dean Angie Kamath has had a distinguished career in higher education and government. Exemplified by her deep expertise in partnering with industries on skills-based education and workforce development, Kamath is a champion for fostering equal opportunities through higher education and workforce programs that provide immediately applicable skills in hospitality, real estate, publishing, global affairs, sports management, AI technology, and functional business leadership, among other growing and emerging fields.
Grounded in research, Kamath is an expert on workforce development and skills-based training, providing foresight into the future of work. Passionate about developing programs with industry leaders, she has created partnerships with national and local organizations to innovate academic initiatives and advance access to education. Under her leadership, NYU SPS has been ranked as a top higher education institution with its career-connected, industry-focused degrees and courses. Kamath was also instrumental in having NYU SPS endorsed as a talent development partner by OneTen, a coalition of leading chief executives and their companies, committed to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and upskilling, hiring, and advancing one million Black Americans into family-sustaining jobs over the next 10 years.
Committed to talent upskilling and reskilling, Kamath has broadened her influence beyond NYU SPS, making a significant impact on New York City’s labor market and economy. As a member of the NYC Mayor’s Office of Talent and Workforce Development, she was appointed to the The Future of Workers Task Force (FWTF) in 2022, dedicated to addressing the future of work and bettering the job market in New York City. Additionally, Kamath sits on the “New” New York Panel. Launched by Governor Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams in 2022, the panel focuses on the future of jobs centers, neighborhoods, the way people work, key industries, infrastructure, talent development and more. Serving as its blue-ribbon panelist, she represents a cross-section of those who call New York home, and who have demonstrated their ability to develop the innovative policies and initiatives required to jumpstart the City’s economy and to drive growth across business sectors in the five boroughs and beyond.
While in her role as dean at the nation’s largest urban public university, City University of New York (CUNY), Kamath oversaw grant-funded opportunities that sought to improve the skills, career prospects, and outcomes of targeted industries such as IT, finance, healthcare, and municipal government.
Before her role at CUNY, Kamath served as an executive vice president and executive director at Per Scholas, a national IT job training nonprofit in the South Bronx. There, she oversaw the New York training operation that trained and placed over 500 individuals each year in middle-skills jobs in the IT field.
Prior to Per Scholas, Kamath worked as deputy commissioner at the NYC Department of Small Business Services for seven years, overseeing adult workforce programs that served more than 100,000 New Yorkers each year during the Bloomberg administration.
Kamath holds a BS in Business Management from Cornell University and an MPP from the Harvard Kennedy School.
