[2] Medhora is currently a professor of practice at McGill University's Institute for the Study of International Development and a distinguished fellow at CIGI where he previously served as president from May 2012 to August 2022.

He sits on the Commission on Global Economic Transformation,[8] co-chaired by Nobel economics laureates Michael Spence and Joseph Stiglitz,[9] and previously sat on The Lancet and the Financial Times Commission on Governing Health Futures 2030,[10] From 2021 to 2022, Rohinton chaired the Ontario Workplace Recovery Advisory Committee.

In 2013, he was co-editor of Canada-Africa Relations: Looking Back, Looking Ahead (2013, McGill Queens university Press), which is volume 27 in the Canada Among Nations book series.

[13] His major publications in this area are: Medhora argues that strong multilateral institutions are important for effective global governance.

[35] Along with promoting innovation, he argues that international governance frameworks are needed in order to ensure artificial intelligence and big data are deployed ethically.