We are now in the process of creating diverse partnerships across sectors irrespective of the size and geography of organisations. The Centre is keen to forge mutually beneficial research and activation partnerships that further our mission of bringing together Indian and global innovators. Get in touch if you’d like to learn more.
The India Centre team
Jaideep Prabhu
Co-Director of the Centre for India and Global Business (CIGB)
Jaideep is a Professor at CJBS and a Fellow of Clare College. His qualifications include a BTech (IIT Delhi) and a PhD (University of Southern California). Jaideep is also a renowned author, having co-authored the award-winning book, Frugal Innovation, which explores how entrepreneurs in India are thriving despite limited resources. His research primarily centres around international business, marketing, strategy, and innovation, with interests in radical innovation in high-tech industries, the impact of firm culture on innovation, and R&D location decisions. Jaideep’s work has been featured in prestigious media outlets, including The New York Times, The Financial Times, and MIT Sloan Management Review. His most recent book, How Should A Government Be? The New Levers of State Power, was published in 2021.
Marvin Fernandes
Co-Director of the Centre for India and Global Business (CIGB)
Marvin is a Fellow at CJBS, a Senior Scholar at the London School of Economics, a Sloan Fellow at London Business School, and a qualified Chartered Accountant. His primary area of research interest is government innovation and permanent funds in the context of intergenerational equity. His experience combines an uncommon mix of cross-disciplinary skills with deep expertise in entrepreneurship, finance, brand and innovation. He designed Goa/India’s first model permanent fund to mitigate resource curse and safeguard intergenerational equity (2015) and is the creator of India’s first licenced animation character, Chhota Birbal (2002), designed to preserve local identity.
Carlos Montes
Visiting Fellow, Centre for India and Global Business
Carlos leads initiatives to scale market-based innovations through impact investment and provide practical support to increase capacity and integrity in governments. He has worked for international institutions, governments, and corporations such as the World Bank, European Commission, Cisco, and Accenture. In addition, he spent 8 years in a social innovation lab for health-related behavioural change in East London. Carlos has also held roles as an Associate of the UK Prime Minister’s Delivery Unit and Director of Evaluations of EU Programs worldwide.
He led a €10bn evaluation for the European Council of Ministers and worked as an economist at the World Bank and Central Bank of Peru. Carlos holds postgraduate degrees in Economics from Yale and Columbia Universities. He is currently the lead advisor on the Institute’s Pathways to Prosperity programme, with a focus on global best practice.
Affiliated faculty
Dame Sandra Dawson DBE
Fellow (Organisational Theory & Information Systems)
KPMG Professor Emeritus
MA (University of Cambridge)
Kamal Munir
Professor of Strategy & Policy
PhD (McGill University)
Michael Barrett
Professor of Information Systems & Innovation Studies
PhD (University of Cambridge)
Allègre Hadida
Associate Professor in Strategy
PhD (Doctorat HEC, France)
Helen Haugh
Associate Professor in Community Enterprise
PhD (Aberdeen University)
Sriya Iyer
Professor of Economics and Social Science, Faculty of Economics
Sriya research interests are in development economics and applied microeconomics, focusing on the economics of religion, rationality, economic demography and education in South Asia. She explores differences in the demography and socio-economic characteristics of religious groups in India.
Paul Kattuman
Professor of Economics
PhD (University of Cambridge)
Eoin O’Sullivan
Director of the Centre for Science, Technology & Innovation Policy (CSTI)
Eoin’s research interests span science and technology policy; university-industry collaborative R&D programmes; and R&D foreign direct investment. He explores the drivers, strategies and network structures associated with the globalisation of corporate R&D across talent-rich economies.
Raghavendra Rau
Sir Evelyn de Rothschild Professor of Finance
MBA (IIM Bangalore), MSc, PhD (INSEAD)
Kishore Sengupta
Professor of Operations Management
MBA, PhD (Case Western University)
Paul Tracey
Professor of Innovation & Organisation
PhD (Stirling University)
Chander Velu
Professor of Innovation and Economics, Department of Engineering
An expert in business model innovation, Chander is a Lecturer in Economics of Industrial Systems. Previously, Chander worked as a consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers and Booz Allen Hamilton. He is in the process of identifying innovative business models emanating from India.
Bhaskar Vira
Professor of Political Economy, Department of Geography
Bhaskar’s research examines the changing economic dynamics of development in India, as well as the social and political dimensions of development and change. On-going research includes work on the ITES-BPO sector and the ‘new’ service economy in India, business and poverty issues, and the land use implications of recent economic liberalisation.
Geoff Walsham
Professor Emeritus of Management Studies (Information Systems)
LittD (University of Cambridge)
Partners
Cambridge Judge Business School Executive Education
The Centre also works closely with Cambridge Judge Business School Executive Education which offers a rich portfolio of flexible programmes to professionals, leaders, and executives in the UK, India, and other regions who strive for professional and personal growth.
Interdisciplinary centres
The Cambridge Judge community of faculty and researchers are actively engaged with our interdisciplinary centres and initiatives. These centres and initiatives link Cambridge research expertise with academic, business and policy stakeholders.
External partners
Past strategic partners of the Centre have included Infosys and the Tata Group.