Professor (Dr.) Shailendra Raj Mehta is the President and Director, MICA and Distinguished Professor for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at MICA. Before joining MICA, he was the Chairman of the Board of Management at Auro University where he also served as Acting Vice Chancellor and Distinguished Professor of Strategy and prior to that Provost/Vice Chancellor of Ahmedabad University. After a 16-year stint at Purdue University where he taught Economics and Strategic Management, he returned to India in 2006-07 to head the collaboration between Duke CE (Duke University’s Corporate Education Arm) and IIM-Ahmedabad as its head for India, West Asia and the Middle East and simultaneously as Visiting Professor of Business Policy at IIM Ahmedabad. Dr. Mehta has done extensive research in the areas of Entrepreneurship, Industrial Organization, Information Economics and Experimental Economics. His work on creating world-class universities has been discussed around the world and profiled in over ten languages. Over the years, Dr. Mehta has consulted with and taught senior executives worldwide and a member of numerous high-powered Government Committees. He has published widely in the ADBC, A and A* categories as well as the FT50. He has his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Delhi University (St. Stephen’s College and Delhi School of Economics, respectively), M.Phil from Balliol College, Oxford, and Ph.D. from Harvard.