Jindal Centre for Social Innovation + Entrepreneurship

Jeremy Wade

Jeremy J. Wade

email: jwade@jgu.edu.in

Jeremy J. Wade, Founding Director

Prof. Jeremy J. Wade is the Director, Office of Academic Innovation and Online Learning at O.P. Jindal Global University and an Associate Professor of Practice at the Jindal Global Business School.

Jeremy founded the Jindal Centre for Social Innovation + Entrepreneurship (JSiE) at JGU in 2015. In 2017, JSiE received the SEE-Change Global Higher Education Institution (HEI) Award at the University of Oxford for creating innovation in social entrepreneurship education through developing partnerships at regional, national and international levels.

Jeremy is an online educator. To date, more than 50,000 students from 170 countries have enrolled in his online courses hosted on the FutureLearn platform, Europe’s leading online learning platform.

Jeremy is a co-founder of armadillo.digital, a venture studio and digital creative agency. Jeremy previously led a startup incubation program for Tibetan refugee entrepreneurs living in India in partnership with the Central Tibetan Administration. Jeremy is also an advisor to the Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development, Birla Institute of Management Technology (BIMTECH).

Originally from the USA, Jeremy began his career working with the U.S. Department of Treasury, where he helped supervise a portfolio of financial institutions in the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis from 2008-2012. Jeremy was later selected to participate in the U.S. State Department Virtual Student Federal Service (VSFS) program working as a research assistant with both the U.S. State Department’s Foreign Service Institute and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)’s Office of Global Climate Change.

Jeremy has published articles in the Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, Sustainability (MDPI), and the Stanford Social Innovation Review. He has been a columnist with the Hindu BusinessLine and writing on the evolving role of business in the 21st century. Jeremy was awarded the Wall Street Journal Award for Academic Achievement in Finance at the Kelce School of Business, Pittsburg State University (USA) in 2008. Jeremy is a Clinton Foundation 20/30 Founding Member.

Academic Publications

Mariya Jilinskaya-Pandey and Jeremy Wade. "Social entrepreneur quotient: An international perspective on social entrepreneur personalities." Journal of Social Entrepreneurship (2019).

Gopa Nayak, Isabel M. Salovaara, and Jeremy Wade. "Self-regulated learning in refugee Entrepreneurship education: A university-based program for Tibetan entrepreneurs in India." Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education (2018): 1-16.

Sara Calvo, Andres Morales, and Jeremy Wade. "The use of MOOCs in social enterprise education: an evaluation of a North–South collaborative FutureLearn program." Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship (2018): 1-23.

Wade, J., 2018. Future Labs: A Vision for Indian Higher Education. Jindal School of Liberal Arts &Humanities Journal Volume 1 | Issue 2
Media Publications

Salovaara, I. And Wade, J., and, 2018. How to Support Women Social Entrepreneurs in India. Stanford Social Innovation Review, [Online] 14.03.2018.

Salovaara, I. And Wade, J., 2018. Women, Prosperity, and Social Change in India. Stanford Social Innovation Review, [Online] 14.02.2018.

Salovaara, I. And Wade, J., 2018. Rethinking Women’s Work in India. Stanford Social Innovation Review, [Online] 4.04.2018.

Affliliations

Co-Founder, Armadillo Digital

Advisory Board Member, Birla Institute of Management Technology, Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development

Mentor, Singularity University Ventures Program

Mentor, Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center Milestone Makers India Program

Founding Member, Clinton Foundation 20/30
Previous Professional Experience

U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Sep. 2013 – Jan. 2014, Virtual Student Federal Service, Research Assistant

U.S. State Department, Foreign Service Institute Jan 2013 - May 2013, Virtual Student Federal Service, Research Assistant

U.S. Treasury Department, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, San Francisco, USA, Associate National Bank Examiner (2008–2012)

Courses Taught

Impact Investing, FutureLearn online course (2018-Present)

Global Economy, Jindal School of Liberal Arts & Humanities (2017)

Social Enterprise, Jindal Global Business School (2017)

International Business, Jindal School of Liberal Arts & Humanities (2016)

Social Enterprise, FutureLearn online program (2016-18)

Social Innovation & Technology Policy, Jindal Global Law School (2015)
Education

MA, International Affairs, O.P. Jindal Global University, India (2012 - 2014) with semester in European Studies, Transnational and Global Perspectives, KU Lueven, Belgium (2013 – 2014)

Certificate, Sustainable Supply Chain Management, University of San Francisco, USA (2011)

BBA, Double Major: Finance and Management, Pittsburg State University, USA (2003– 2008)