Nitish Jain

Nitish Jain
Born Feb 15, 1961
Nationality Indian
Alma mater Cornell University, USA
Occupation Businessman
Religion Jain
Spouse(s) Bapsy Jain
Children Samarth Jain, Gaurav Jain

Nitish Jain (born 15 February 1961) is an Indian educationist, philanthropist, and President of S P Jain School of Global Management (S P Jain), a Sydney-based business school that also has campuses in Dubai, Singapore and Mumbai.

Nitish is the recipient of several awards in recognition of his efforts in modernizing business education and promoting global employability among business graduates. In 2010, he won the Outstanding Contribution to Education Award by the CMO Asia, and the Award for Excellence by the Australia India Business Council in 2014, presented by Her Excellency Julie Bishop, Minister for Foreign Affairs, Australia.

The same year, Nitish was selected by the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to join his official delegation of CEOs to Australia post the G20 summit.[1][2] Over 3 days, Nitish, along with top CEOs, business leaders and visionaries from India, joined the PM in presenting his “Make in India” campaign to Australia’s business community.

Early life and education

Nitish is the son of S C Jain and Neera Jain, and grandson of the late Shriyans Prasad Jain, parliamentarian, industrialist and philanthropist who was conferred the Padma Bhushan in 1988. Nitish, and his brother Vivek, were raised in Mumbai and educated at the Cathedral and John Connon School. He pursued his undergraduate degree from Sydenham College, Mumbai University, and an MBA from Cornell University, USA.

S P Jain School of Global Management

Although Nitish was closely associated with education from an early age, his most notable achievement was the founding of S P Jain School of Global Management, a business school named after his grandfather. After founding the School in Dubai in 2004, Nitish went on to set up three other international campuses for S P Jain in Singapore, Sydney and the most recent one in Mumbai, India. By having campuses in four of the world’s top financial and business centers, Nitish and S P Jain were able to successfully introduce multi-city residential undergraduate and postgraduate programs. The School also offers a wide range of Executive Education and Development programs for working professionals, and a Global Family Managed Business program.

Under Nitish’s leadership, S P Jain has in a short span of eleven years, carved a niche for itself as a modern business school that is ranked among the world’s best by:

The Economist (2015) Ranked in the Global Top 100 in the World[3][4]Forbes, USA: Best International 1 Year programs (2015–2016) Ranked #10 in the world[4][5][6]

Poets and Quants, USA (2015)

Ranked #33 in the world[7]

Forbes, USA: Best International Business School (2013–2014) Ranked #19 in the world (outside the US)[8][9]

Nielsen (2014) No. 1 MBA Salary audit in U. A. E.[10][11]

Financial Times, UK (2011 and 2012) Top 100 Global MBA Programs in the world[12][13]

Reimagining Business Education

In 2015, under the leadership of Nitish Jain, S P Jain kick-started a movement to reimagining business education and offer redesigned, innovative programs to business graduates. As part of this movement. S P Jain launched several computer-aided teaching platforms like blended learning, simulation centres, decision-making laboratories, and subjects that focus purely on Global Immersion, into its undergraduate and postgraduate curriculum. Many of these tools were developed as a direct result of intense discussions with industry partners, recruiters and in-house faculty members drawn from top institutes like Harvard, Duke and Oxford.

These changes earned S P Jain, and Nitish Jain, the title of Game Changer in Education in Forbes magazine’s Middle East edition.[14][15]

In the Media

Nitish is considered an international authority in global business education, and has appeared on several international publications and broadcast media like the Sydney Morning Post,[16] Bloomberg TV (Hong Kong and India),[17] BBC (Singapore) and Zee TV (Singapore).

Awards and Honours

Year of Award / Honor Name of Award / Honor Awarding Institution
2010 Outstanding Contribution to Education CMO Asia
2013 UAE’s 75 most influential people Forbes
2014 Award for Excellence Australia India Business Council
2014 Entrepreneur of the Year Times Now

Board Memberships

Nitish is active in several professional societies including the FICCI and the Young President’s Association. In addition, he contributes actively for social causes and is a Trustee of Sukhanand Ashram (Dharamshala) Trust, Seth Sukhanand Gurumukhrai Trust, DCW Ltd. Trust and the S P Jain Welfare Foundation. Many of these Trusts were founded by his family with the objective of promoting education and medical welfare among low-income families.

Personal life

Nitish is married to Bapsy Jain, bestselling author and entrepreneur. Together, they have two sons, Samarth and Gaurav.

References

  1. ↑ "Modi to meet top Australian business leaders at Melbourne roundtable : India, News - India Today". indiatoday.intoday.in. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  2. ↑ "Narendra Modi to meet top Australian business leaders at Melbourne roundtable". timesofindia-economictimes. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  3. ↑ "S P Jain School of Global Management". The Economist. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  4. 1 2 "SP Jain School of Global Management among world's top 100 MBA institutes". www.businesstoday.in. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  5. ↑ "Forbes ranked S P Jain #10 in the world". Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  6. ↑ Settimi, Christina. "#10 S P Jain - In Photos: The Best International 1-year MBA Programs". Forbes. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  7. ↑ ByrnePoets, John A.; 18, QuantsAuthor on November; Print, 2015. "INSEAD Claims First In New 2015 Poets&Quants' Ranking Of International MBAs - Page 3 of 4". Poets and Quants. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  8. ↑ "Dubai's SP Jain School of Global Management ranked 19th in Forbes list of top business schools | The National". www.thenational.ae. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  9. ↑ "S P Jain Global School of Management in United Arab Emirates - Bachelor Degrees". www.bachelorstudies.com. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  10. ↑ "S P Jain ranked #1 in UAE for starting salaries". Oneyearmba.co.in. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  11. ↑ Management, S P Jain School of Global. "S P Jain Ranked #1 in the UAE: Nielsen Salary Audit Topline Report 2014". www.prnewswire.com. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  12. ↑ "Business school rankings from the Financial Times - FT.com". rankings.ft.com. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  13. ↑ "Business school rankings from the Financial Times - FT.com". rankings.ft.com. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  14. ↑ Coletti, Claudine. "Game Changer | Forbes Middle East". Forbes Middle East. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  15. ↑ "Education Guide 2016 | Forbes Middle East". www.forbesmiddleeast.com. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  16. ↑ "In answer to a $20 billion question". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2016-02-26.
  17. ↑ S P Jain (2015-12-31), S P Jain School of Global Management - the leading B-school, retrieved 2016-02-18
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