Sanjay joined Newcastle Business School in 2012. A Fellow of Higher Education UK, he has been teaching courses in strategy, international business, entrepreneurship and innovation, as well as finance/entrepreneurial finance at NBS and earlier at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Sanjay is an achievement motivation trainer and has used those techniques in conducting several entrepreneurship development programmes with existing and aspiring entrepreneurs. He has raised funds of £100,000 p. a. for student start-up businesses. He is a visiting professor at the Foundation for Liberal and Management Education in India.

Before joining academia Sanjay has held senior management positions in bankng, venture capital and consulting, last as County Director for corporate finance in Arthur Andersen in India. Sanjay has also worked on assignments in the US, the UK, and in South East Asia. His experience enables him to bring real life case discussions into the classroom. He has an MSc and an MBA from University of Delhi and a PhD from the triple crown Business School of The University of Auckland, New Zealand.

His research interests lie in firm internationalisation, entrepreneurship, social cause venturing, management of the commons, and strategy. Sanjay has published in and reviewed for international journals and has been a member of international research bodies including the Entrepreneurship Division International Committee of the Academy of Management. He has been a core committee member of the Australian Centre of Entrepreneurship Research Exchange annual conference series for six years and a founding member of Academy of Management Entrepreneurship Division International Committee.

Sanjay is happy to take students for a doctoral programme in entrepreneurship, social cause venturing, management of the commons and firm internationalisation.

Firm internationalisation, entrepreneurship, social cause venturing, management of the commons, strategy