Dr. Goutham Menon earned a master’s degree in social work from the Madras School of Social Work, Chennai, India and his Ph.D. in Social Work from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received his MBA (Sustainability & Entrepreneurship) from the University of Nevada, Reno. He has served as a faculty at the University of Texas at Arlington; University of South Carolina; University of Texas at San Antonio; University of Nevada at Reno (UNR - Professor & Director); and Loyola University Chicago (LUC - Professor & Dean; Special Assistant to the President – Strategic Plan Implementation). Dr. Goutham Menon is currently serving as CEO of the Network for Social Work Management.
Dr. Menon’s areas of expertise lie in the utilization of information and communication technologies for human services; distance education; leadership; innovation & strategy; and higher education. He has been actively involved in various leadership roles at the Council on Social Work Education, including serving as an elected member of the Board of Directors. Dr. Menon served on the board of the National Association of Deans and Directors (NADD) as Vice-President and Program Chair. He served on the board of International Consortium for Social Development as Vice-President and then as Secretary General during 2008-2018.
Dr. Menon is currently Editor of Best Practices in Mental Health. Dr. Menon was inducted to Alpha Sigma Nu, the Jesuit Honor Society, in 2019. He was also awarded the Jim Billups International Social Development Leadership Award by the International Consortium for Social Development in 2019.
