Faculty Profile

Dr. Vinod K. Jain Lecturer Affiliate Professor, Latin American Studies Center Ph.D., University of Maryland, College Park Robert H. Smith School of Business Logistics, Business and Public Policy Department 3357 Van Munching Hall College Park, MD 20742-1815 Phone: 301-405-3256 Email: vjain@rhsmith.umd.edu

Research Interests: Offshoring and innovation; international investment strategy.

Professor Vinod Jain is on the faculty of both the LBPP and M&O Departments, where he teaches courses in strategy, global strategy, competing in emerging markets, and international business. He is the founder and former director of the Center for International Business Education & Research (CIBER), and an affiliate professor in the Latin American Studies Center at the University of Maryland. A true cosmopolitan and Fulbright Scholar, Vinod has lived and worked in India, the United States, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, China, and the Middle East.

Vinod has taught strategy on Smith School’s Executive MBA program in China and Switzerland, and has been teaching the capstone strategic management course on the Executive MBA program of the University of Lodz in Poland since 2005. Most recently, he taught on the General Management Program for IT Executives at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore.

His current research involves measuring regional innovation in the United States, a project funded partially by the IBM Center for the Business of Government. Most recently, he co-authored a major study on “How America Benefits from Economic Engagement with India” for the India-US World Affairs Institute, in association with the University of Maryland and the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry. He has been honored by the Governors of both Ohio (2001) and Maryland (2004) for his services to their states.

Prior to returning to academia in 1990, Vinod worked in industry for some fifteen years and held middle and senior executive positions, including Vice President (Macmillan Publishers), Manager Coordination (Molins PLC), and Marketing Research Executive (Coca-Cola). He serves on the Maryland/Washington D.C. District Export Council, and is a member of the Academy of International Business, Academy of Management, Mensa, and the Asia Society.