About
A scholar of global consequence
Professor, author and keynote speaker — with a career spanning the United States, Europe and Asia.

Video introduction
Watch the profile video on YouTube ↗Dr. Justin Paul holds four doctoral degrees — from the University of Brighton, England, IIT Bombay, and two honorary doctorates. He holds the world’s first rank in Business Administration as an author in the last-five-years category of the ScholarGPS rankings.
He served as a lecturer at the University of Washington, as a visiting professor at the University of Reading for three years, as Provost of the AACSB & EQUIS-accredited NMIMS University, and as department chair at IIM Indore. He is a professor in the PhD and MBA programs at the University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, USA, and an honorary Dean at SIMS, Kerala. He also holds distinguished or honorary titles from institutions in Spain, Hungary, Poland, Korea and France.
He served as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Consumer Studies for six years. His citations grow at around 1,200 per month, with an H-index of 110, over 60,000 citations and an i10-index of 211.
He has been a speaker in more than 70 countries and at 400 universities, including MIT. He has taught full courses in Denmark, France, Lithuania and Poland, published best-selling case studies with Ivey and Harvard, and speaks English, Japanese, Hindi, Malayalam and Spanish. His work has been downloaded more than 1,000,000 times and he has interacted with over 300,000 students.
He has been recognised as “Young Achiever” by The Hindu, “The Global Professor” by Mathrubhumi, and “The Global Citizen” in a cover story by Deepika.
Education
Four doctoral degrees
01
Ph.D. in Marketing
University of Brighton, England
02
Ph.D. in International Business
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay
03
Honorary Doctorate
Calcutta
04
Honorary Doctorate
Second honorary doctoral award
Appointments
Positions held and current roles
- Professor, PhD & MBA programs — University of Puerto Rico, USA
- Distinguished Senior Fellow — Corvinus University of Budapest
- Visiting / Adjunct Professor — Korea University, ELTE Hungary, University of Malaga, University of Katowice
- Honorary & visiting roles — University of Reading, Versailles, Aarhus, Porto, Deakin, IE Madrid, WU Vienna, IIM-K
- Former faculty — University of Washington
- Former MBA Director & AACSB Coordinator — Nagoya University, Japan
- Former Department Chair & Director, Executive Education — Indian Institute of Management
Global reach