Shailendra Raj Mehta is the O.P. Jindal Distinguished University Professor at O.P. Jindal Global University and Distinguished Visiting Professor, at Asia School of Business, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. His prior appointments were as President and Director of MICA and Distinguished Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Chairman of the Board of Management at Auro University where he was Acting Vice Chancellor and Distinguished Professor of Strategy, and as Provost & Vice Chancellor of Ahmedabad University and the Vice-Chairman of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla. He returned to India in 2006-7 to head the collaboration between Duke CE (Duke University’s Corporate Education Arm) and IIM-Ahmedabad as Regional Managing Director for India, West Asia, and the Middle East and as Visiting Professor of Business Policy at IIM-Ahmedabad. Before that, he was at Purdue University for 16 years, where he taught Economics and Strategic Management.
He has done extensive research in the areas of Entrepreneurship, Industrial Organization, Information Economics and Experimental Economics. He is rated as one of the foremost scholars in the field of Strategy in India. His work on creating world-class universities has been discussed around the world and profiled in over ten languages including Chinese, Russian, French, German and Arabic among others. His latest book, which has just been released, is “Global Governance Futures: Digital Transformation and Democratic Reform,” Routledge Publishers, USA (Taylor and Francis Group), jointly edited with Preeti Shroff, Jagdish Sheth, and John Garrison.
For more than a decade he has researched the seven ancient universities of India including Taxila, Nalanda, Valabhi, Vikramshila, Odantapuri, Jagaddala and Somapura, and how the model was transmitted from India to Europe, via Central Asia and the Middle East. He is working on a book on the subject.
His BA and MA are from Delhi University (St. Stephen’s College and Delhi School of Economics respectively), his MPhil is from Balliol College, Oxford, and his PhD is from Harvard.
