Dr. Justin PaulKeynote Speaker · Corporate Trainer & Consultant

Leadership

Shaping institutions, journals and standards

Two decades of governance, accreditation and editorial leadership at the highest levels of business education.

Institutional governance

Academic leadership

Provost & Dean

Former Provost and Dean of the AACSB & EQUIS-accredited NMIMS University.

Accreditation

European EFMD EQUIS accreditation judging committee member, including for ICN France & UPF BSM Barcelona.

MBA Director & AACSB Coordinator

Nagoya University, Japan.

Department Chair & Executive Education

Indian Institute of Management — chair, director of executive education, and faculty council member secretary.

Doctoral examiner

Member of 30+ PhD committees, including IITs, Deakin University and Abu Dhabi University.

Editorial leadership

From editor's desk to field leadership

Editor-in-Chief (2000–2025)

International Journal of Consumer Studies

Led IJCS to become the consumer research journal with the highest JCR impact factor, Scopus CiteScore and SNIP; submissions grew four-fold during 2020–24.

Associate Editor (served)

Journal of Business Research

Also lead editor of special issues on systematic literature reviews for two consecutive years.

Associate Editor (served)

European Management Review · European Management Journal

Editorial leadership across leading European management journals.

Editor (served)

Journal of Strategic Marketing · Int. Journal of Emerging Markets

Editorial board and handling-editor roles.

Honours

Awards & research funding