Prof Christopher Abraham

CEO & Head and Sr. Vice President, S P Jain School of Global Management

Prof. Christopher Abraham is a permanent resident of Canada with three Post Graduate qualifications in HRM, Business Administration (Marketing), and Labor & Administrative Law and is a PhD scholar in Positive Psychology. He is a Certified Design Thinker from IDEO/Stanford and has thirty two years’ experience in management consulting, marketing, and management education in India, Canada, Singapore and the UAE.

Currently he is the CEO & Head - Dubai campus and Sr. Vice President (Institutional Development) at the S P Jain School of Global Management, a Forbes Top 10, Economist & FT Top 100 ranked Business School, with campuses in Dubai, Singapore, Mumbai and Sydney

Prof. Abraham has been a visiting Professor at many leading universities in Australia, USA, Canada, Singapore and UK. Earlier in Dubai, he headed the Executive MBA Program of XLRI, Jamshedpur.

His areas of competence are Strategy, Technology & the Future of Education, Innovation, Neuroscience of Decision Making, Positive Organizational Behavior, Science of Happiness and Design Thinking, Trends & Futures.

A much sought after TEDx and keynote speaker, he has successfully presented in numerous global forums and has also conducted many consulting and executive development assignments for global organizations, including The World Bank, The Executive Council (Gov’t. of Dubai), Emirates Airlines, DHL, AW Rostamani, P&G etc.