Pradeep A. Rau
Senior Associate Dean
Pradeep A. Rau, a professor of marketing and international business, joined the School of Business in 1990 and served as chair of the School’s Department of Marketing from 1995-2001. His current research focuses on international marketing strategy and retail analytics.
He earned his Doctor of Business Administration from Kent State University, Master of Business Administration from the Indian Institute of Management and Bachelor of Science in Metallurgical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. From 2008-2009, he was honored as the first fellow named to the Infosys Leadership Institute, the corporate university of Infosys Technologies.
Dr. Rau has held academic positions at the Institute for International Business Education in Russia, the Indian Institute of Technology, the Institut Tadbiran Awam Negara in Malaysia, the University of International Business in China, the Indian Institute of Management, the University of Aarhus in Denmark, Kent State University and the University of Delaware. His private sector experience includes corporate development work with Larsen and Toubro, Esso Eastern (an overseas subsidiary of Exxon) and Mahindra and Mahindra.