Pushkar Jha

Pushkar earned his PhD from Cass (now Bayes) Business School in 2007 and has since built a strong record as a senior academic leader with a clear strategic vision for business education.

In a short span of just over a year at UEL  Pushkar has worked on specific research culture, processes and output enhancing initiatives. Having taken over as the Faculty Director (PGR) he has led revamping of recruitment, progression, partnerships, and completion processes alongside launch of new programmes including the DBA and MRes to complement the PhD programme. He is co-Director of the Noon Centre at UEL – the leading research and employability centre at UEL and  sector renowned in terms of EDI metrics. UEL’s meteoric rise in university rankings in 2025,  alongside being the Times Higher University of the year in 2024, and nominated again recently, is a journey that has been incredible to be part of.

At Northumbria University Pushkar served as Faculty Director of Postgraduate Research and as Principal Investigator/University Lead for a UKRI-Office for Students funded project focused on advancing equity and inclusion. He has also been Director of Learning and Teaching, Research and Innovation Champion, and Subject Group Leader. Professor Pushkar Jha | University of East London

Alongside these leadership achievements, Pushkar maintains an active scholarly profile with publications in Research Policy, R&D Management, Academy of Management Perspectives, World Development Perspectives, European Management Review, European Business Review, and the International Journal of Project Management, among others.