Rajesh Chandy
Tony and Maureen Wheeler Chair in Entrepreneurship; Academic Director, Wheeler Institute for Business and Development; Professor of Marketing
PhD (Southern California)
Rajesh Chandy is Professor of Marketing and holds the Tony and Maureen Wheeler Chair in Entrepreneurship at London Business School, where he serves as Academic Director of the Wheeler Institute for Business and Development. His research focuses on the intersection of business and development, with recent projects examining business skills among micro-entrepreneurs in South Africa, property rights in slums in Egypt, and gender empowerment through jobs in India.
Rajesh has served as a member of the advisory board of Journal of Marketing and as co-editor of its special issue on "Better Marketing for a Better World." He is also co-editor of Management Science special issue on "Business and Climate Change" and previously served as Area Editor for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Management Science. His work has been recognised by Fortune magazine, which described his innovation findings as "an unorthodox and bracing set of management principles."
Rajesh has provided advisory and executive education services to leading organisations including Carrefour, Novo Nordisk, Nordea, Rabobank, Toshiba, St. Jude Medical, 3M, Philips, Microsoft, Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone, and the World Economic Forum, among others. He has served as an independent director on the board of Laurus Labs Limited, a publicly listed pharmaceutical company, and is currently on the board of the American Marketing Association. He is an elected Fellow of the British Academy and of the American Marketing Association.
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Academic and professional experience
Member of the Board of Directors, American Marketing Association
Member of the Working Board, Responsible Research in Business and Management
Member, Governing Body, London Business School (2023-2026)
Independent Director, Board of Laurus Labs Limited (2016-2026)
Member, US Secretary of Commerce Advisory Committee on Measuring Innovation in the 21st Century Economy (2006-2008)
Advisory and executive education services to Carrefour, Novo Nordisk, Nordea, Rabobank, Toshiba, St. Jude Medical, 3M, Philips, Commonwealth Microfinance Limited, American Medical Systems, Deutsche Telekom, Bertelsmann, Hutchinson Technology, Microsoft, Mundipharma, Rexam, Wrigley, GfK, Futuredontics, Telenor, Vodafone, World Economic Forum, and US and UK governments (from 2000).
Awards and honours
Fellow of the American Marketing Association (2025)
Excellence in Global Marketing Research Award for significant contributions to the literature on global marketing (2022)
Fellow of the British Academy (2018)
Mahajan Award for Lifetime Contributions to Marketing Strategy Research (2018)
Gerald E. Hills Award for the Best Paper on Entrepreneurial Marketing (2018)
Albert Page Award for best professional paper on innovation (2018)
ISMS Gary Lilien Practice Prize for research contributing most to the practice of marketing (2016)
AMA TechSIG Award for the best article on Technology and Innovation (2004, 2008)
AMA Early Career Award for contributions to marketing strategy research (2005)
MSI Young Scholar designation (2003)
Journal of Marketing Harold Maynard Award for contributions to marketing theory and thought (2000)
Teaching portfolio
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