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Dr. Chandru Rajam serves as Professorial Lecturer in International Business at the George Washington University School of Business, where he previously served as Director of Assessment of Learning. Prior to his arrival at GWU, he was Co-Founder and CEO of EduMetry, Inc., a provider of rich-feedback-based grading services and learning-outcomes assessment solutions to universities and colleges globally.

Before founding EduMetry, Dr. Rajam served as a business school professor at the University of Colorado and at the National University of Singapore (NUS), where he taught in the areas of Strategy and International Business in the MBA and EMBA programs. Dr. Rajam was also Founding Director of the Asia-Pacific Executive MBA Program, the first of its kind in Asia in 1997 and which in 2009 was ranked 11th globally by Financial Times. That program became the inspiration for the UCLA-NUS EMBA Program. He went on to become Founding Dean of Universitas 21 Global, an online university offering graduate business education. Universitas 21 Global was a joint venture between Thomson Learning (now Cengage) and 19 research universities from four continents.

While serving as a professor, Dr. Rajam consulted as Chairman and Moderator of BusinessWeek Conferences, advising editorially and chairing CEO, CFO and CIO conferences across Asia. After leaving full-time teaching, Dr. Rajam worked as Regional Director for Advisory Services at the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), a division of The Economist Group. Based in Singapore, he led EIU’s Corporate Network, overseeing research and providing briefings to help heads of multinational companies understand the business environment in Asia. In this capacity, he was a regular commentator on CNBC, BBC, NDTV & Bloomberg.

Dr. Rajam has consulted for or taught in executive-education programs offered by Harvard Business School, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, IBM, McDonnell-Douglas, Mobil, General Motors, American President Lines, Singapore Airlines, GE, Samsung, GSK, Elf Atochem and Swiss Re.

A Malaysian citizen, Chandru was born and brought up in Kuala Lumpur. He received a degree in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM). He graduated with a PhD in Business from Pennsylvania State University. He and his wife (a corporate financial controller) have two children, and they live in Northern Virginia in a suburb of Washington, D.C.