Bhaskar Chakravorti

Bhaskar Chakravorti , Ph.D.,

Dean Of Global Business, Chair, Council on Emerging Market Enterprises (CEME), The Fletcher School, Tufts University

bhaskar.chakravorti@tufts.edu

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Bhaskar Chakravorti is the dean of global business at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and founding executive director of Fletcher's Institute for Business in the Global Context. The Institute's objective is to "connect the world of business with the world." At the Institute, Bhaskar has launched multiple initiatives, e.g. The Digital Planet, Inclusion Inc., The "Turn?" Conference series, among others.

In addition, Bhaskar also serves on the World Economic Forum's Global Future Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, is an advisory board member for the UNDP's International Center for the Private Sector in Development based in Istanbul, is a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution India, and is the Senior Advisor for Digital Inclusion at the MasterCard Center for Inclusive Growth. He is a regular writer and columnist for multiple widely read publications, e.g. Harvard Business Review, Forbes, The Guardian, Indian Express, Huffington Post, and is a former op-ed columnist on Innovation for the Washington Post. He is the author of the widely acclaimed book, "The Slow Pace of Fast Change: Bringing Innovations to Market in a Connected World" (Harvard Business Press). His papers and articles appear in top-tier academic journals, multiple books and in widely-read media, e.g. New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Washington Post, CNN, Foreign Affairs, BusinessWeek, and CNBC. He has provided commentary to the media, e.g. BBC, National Public Radio, Al Jazeera, CCTV, NBC, New York Times, WSJ, The Economist, The Times of London, and Times of India, among many others, on a variety of issues ranging from innovation to digital transformation to sustainable development.