Beheruz Nariman Sethna (born 1948) is a professor of business and retired sixth president of the University of West Georgia (UWG).
Sethna was the catalyst for many of the changes that elevated UWG from a liberal arts college of 7,947 students in 1993–94 to an institution with full university status whose full-time equivalent enrollment has grown by 50 percent since his arrival.
He continues at UWG as professor of business administration and intends to spend summers teaching English and science at Balgram, an orphanage school in India.
Additionally, in 2006–07, he had line responsibility with the presidents of all 15 comprehensive universities reporting to him, accounting for about 40% of the public sector student enrollment in the entire state of Georgia.
They have two children: Anita Sethna, MD, a Facial Plastics and Board-certified ENT surgeon who heads the Emory Facial Center and is a graduate of Georgia Tech and Emory University School of Medicine; and Shaun Sethna, JD, deputy general counsel – for real estate, technology and financial services company in Houston, who is a graduate of Georgia Tech and Columbia Law School.