Shailendra Mehta

Dr. Shailendra Raj Mehta is the O.P. Jindal Distinguished University Professor at O.P. Jindal Global University, India (one of the three private universities recognized as Institutions of Eminence by the Government of India) 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 Provost & Vice Chancellor of Ahmedabad University. 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. 

While at Purdue, he co-founded Simulex Inc., a high technology company in the Purdue Research Park. Currently, he is a co-founder of a Fintech startup, S-Ancial, of which he also serves as the Chairman. He is also on the Board of one India’s leading publicly traded companies. 

Over the years, Dr. Mehta has consulted with and taught senior executives worldwide including executives from North America, Europe, Africa and Asia. The companies that he has worked with at the CEO, CXO or board level include the Bajaj Group, Bharat Petroleum, Black Management Forum of South Africa, Eli Lilly, Genpact, Honeywell, IBM, Infosys, Lockheed Martin, Medtronic, Microsoft, P&G, Price Waterhouse Coopers, State Bank of India Tata Group, Vedanta and many agencies of the Indian and US governments, among others. 

He has done extensive research in the areas of Entrepreneurship, Industrial Organization, Information Economics and Experimental Economics. His research was the subject of a full-length review by the Economist. 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. He has a new book coming out, 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. 

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.