Nikhil Celly

Assistant Dean, Strategic & Global Initiatives

Nikhil Celly, Ph.D., is the Assistant Dean of Strategic & Global Initiatives, and a faculty member in the Department of Management & Leadership. He set up and developed Bauer's Office of Global Initiatives, and leads Bauer's strategy and development of global partnerships and programs across Latin America, Asia, Europe, Middle East and Africa. He received the University of Houston’s Global Faculty Award for his work on global initiatives in the Bauer College, and has been an invited speaker at several prestigious international education conferences such as the QS Reimagine Education and Global Business School Network Conferences.

Celly conducts multidisciplinary research on firm competitiveness, restructuring, ambidexterity and innovation. This research has been published in top academic outlets such as the Strategic Management Journal, the Journal of the Association for Information Systems and the Journal of Management Studies, and presented at numerous conferences including the Academy of Management, Academy of International Business and Strategic Management Society conferences.

Celly teaches the core Global Strategic Leadership class in Bauer's Executive DBA, and strategic management and ethical leadership courses in the MBA/MS programs at Bauer. Prior to Bauer, he taught at various top ranked Universities in North America and Asia including the Ivey School of Business, Canada and the University of Hong Kong.

Celly earned his Ph.D. in General Management and Strategy from the Ivey Business School, Canada, an MS in EE with a specialization in Medical Imaging from the University of Rochester, New York, and a Bachelors of Electronics and Communications Engineering from the Delhi Institute of Technology, University of Delhi.