Portrait of Saurabh Bansal.

Saurabh Bansal

Chief of Staff for Finance and Business

Saurabh Bansal is a professor at Smeal College of Business and serves as the Chief of Staff to the Senior Vice President for Finance and Business. is a professor at Smeal College of Business and serves at the Chief-of Staff to the Senior Vice President for Finance and Business. In 2024-25, he served as an administrative fellow at Penn State. His other leadership trainings include PSEAL (2023), Big Ten Academic Alliance (2025-2026), EAB (2026). Since October 2024, he has served as co-lead for Finance OST. In his academic career, he has won several awards for research in the area of decision making under risk and uncertainty, teaching, and service.