Dr. Anil K. Gupta Speaker & Booking Information

Dr. Anil K. Gupta is widely regarded as one of the world's leading experts on strategy, globalization and entrepreneurship. He is ranked by Thinkers50 as one of the world's "most influential living management thinkers" and has been named by The Economist as one of the world's "superstars" in a cover story on "Innovation in Emerging Economies." He is also one of only three professors, out of over 25000 worldwide, to have been elected as a Lifetime Fellow of the three most prestigious academic bodies in his field – Academy of Management, Strategic Management Society, and Academy of International Business.

Dr. Gupta's newest book The Silk Road Rediscovered: How Indian and Chinese Companies Become Globally Stronger by Competing in Each Other's Markets will be published in April 2014. He earlier books include Getting China and India Right and The Quest for Global Dominance. He is a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Emerging Multinationals and has also served on the boards of several NYSE- and NASDAQ-listed companies in the United States.

Anil’s other honors include the 2010 “Best Professor in Strategic Management” award from CMO Asia, recognition by BusinessWeek as an Outstanding Faculty in its Guide to the Best B-Schools, induction into the Academy of Management Journals’ Hall of Fame, and listing by Management International Review as a “North American Superstar” for research in strategy and organization. He is also a regular participant at the World Economic Forum summits including the annual meeting in Davos and the regional meetings in China, India, and the Middle East. He is also a member of the Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Emerging Multinationals.

Anil’s newest book - Global Strategies for Emerging Asia – was published by Wiley in July 2012. His earlier book - Getting China and India Right coauthored with Haiyan Wang - received the 2009 Axiom Book Awards’ Silver Prize as one of the world’s two best books on globalization/international business and was a finalist for the Asia Society’s Annual Bernard Schwartz Book Award. Anil is also the author, coauthor, or coeditor of The Quest for Global Dominance, Smart Globalization, and Global Strategy and Organization as well as over 70 papers in leading academic journals.

Anil serves as a columnist for Bloomberg BusinessWeek, as a Contributing Editor for Chief Executivemagazine, and as a contributor to HBR.org. His opinion pieces have also been published in The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Chief Executive Magazine, Daily Telegraph, China Daily, Economic Times, and other outlets. He has been interviewed by Harvard Business Review, Economist, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, USA Today, BusinessWeek, Forbes, BBC, CNBC, Bloomberg TV, Reuters TV, New Delhi TV, CCTV China as well as other top-tier global media.

Anil serves regularly as a keynote speaker at major conferences and corporate forums in the United States, Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa – including the World Economic Forum, Economistconferences, the BusinessWeek CEO Forum, Chief Executive magazine’s CEO2CEO Summits, and the Yale CEO Summit. He has also served as a consultant, keynote speaker and/or executive education faculty with some of the largest corporations in the world including GE, Wal-Mart, IBM, HSBC, Deutsche Bank, H-P, SAP, Microsoft, Schneider Electric, TOTAL, PPG Industries, MTN Group (South Africa), Accenture, Astra Zeneca, Marriott, First Data, Jacobs, Monsanto, ABB, Lockheed Martin, McGraw-Hill, Indian Oil, Steel Authority of India, Huawei Technologies, TeliaSonera, Metso, UPM-Kymmene, Finnair, Cemex, and Penoles. .

Anil is an elected member of the board of directors of Origene Technologies. He has earlier served on the boards of directors of Omega Worldwide, Vitalink Pharmaceutical Services, NeoMagic Corporation, and TiE-DC, the premier organization of entrepreneurs and venture capitalists in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic region. He also serves on the advisory boards of Asia Silicon Valley Connection and India Globalization Capital. He has also served as an advisor to the US-India Business Council.

Anil is the Michael D. Dingman Chair in Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the Smith School of Business, The University of Maryland and a Visiting Professor of Strategy at INSEAD where he served as the INSEAD Chair’s Professor of Strategy until December 2010. Anil also serves as chief advisor to The China India Institute, a Washington DC-based research and consulting organization. He has earlier served as a visiting professor at Stanford University and Dartmouth College. He received a doctorate from the Harvard Business School, an M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management at Ahmedabad, and a B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur.