Shailendra Raj Mehta

[1] Since 2017, he has been serving as the President and Director of MICA (Institute) in Ahmedabad,[2] where he is also a Distinguished Professor of Innovation and Entrepreneurship.

During this period, he also served as the Director of the Krannert School of Management's Entrepreneurship Initiative and of also of the SEAS Simulation Lab.

After a 16-year stint at Purdue University, he returned to India in 2006–2007 to head the collaboration between Duke University's Corporate Education Arm, Duke CE, and Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad as its head for India, West Asia and the Middle East and simultaneously as visiting professor of Business Policy at IIM-Ahmedabad.

In 2015, he was appointed as the chairman of the Board of Management at Auro University where he also served as Acting Vice-Chancellor and Distinguished Professor of Strategy.

The Ministry of Education has appointed him as the vice-chairman of the Governing Body of the Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS).