Matthew B. Myers

Dean of Edwin L. Cox School of Business
Tolleson Chair in Business Leadership
David B. Miller Endowed Professor

PhD, Michigan State University

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  • Bio

    Matthew B. Myers is the ninth dean of the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University where he holds the Tolleson Chair in Business Leadership & the David B. Miller Endowed Professorship. SMU-Cox offers undergraduate and graduate degrees to around 2,500 students, with almost 40,000 global alumni.  

    Myers has worked and consulted with organizations in the engineering, distribution, chemical, insurance, financial services, ranching & agriculture, customer engagement, and pharma industries, and has served as visiting faculty at ESSEC-Paris and the University of St. Andrews, Scotland. He has taught at the Vienna University of Economics and in other locations including Italy, Romania, Taiwan and Uzbekistan, and has led executive education courses worldwide. Prior to academia he worked at both Merrill-Lynch and IBM-Argentina. He is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors & the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, & serves on the board of King Ranch, Inc., the Maguire Energy Institute, the Southwest Graduate School of Banking, the Mission Foods Texas-Mexico Center in the John G. Tower Center for Political Studies, Goodwill Industries-Dallas, & the Baylor Health Foundation. He is also an advisory council member for the George Bush Institute for Economic Growth. He has been cited or appeared on CNBC, Fox Business, CBS Radio, the Financial Times, and the Wall Street Journal.

    Myers received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University and a Masters of International Business Studies from the University of South Carolina. He served as a medic in the U.S. Army Airborne from 1979 to 1982, primarily in Panama. Myers, his wife Gina and their twin daughters live in Dallas, Texas. 

    Dean Myers in the News

    KRLD’s CEO Spotlight

    Matt Myers, incoming dean of the Cox School, interviewed by David Johnson—aired July 24.

    The Dallas Morning News
    "What being a medic on Cold War front lines taught SMU's calm, cool new business dean" by Cheryl Hall

    D Magazine
    "Executive Education A Focus for SMU’s New B-School Dean" by Glenn Hunter

    SMU announces new Cox dean.
    The Dallas Morning News
    Dallas Business Journal
    Poets and Quants
    SMU Daily Campus
    Miami Ohio Campus News
    Dayton Business Journal