Professor Nalin Mehta is Dean School of Modern Media UPES: Non-Resident Senior Fellow Institute of South Asian Studies National University of Singapore and Group Consulting Editor Network 18. He has held executive leadership positions in leading Indian media companies served as an international civil servant with the Global Fund in Geneva Switzerland and taught and held research positions at universities/institutions in Australia (ANU La Trobe University) Singapore (NUS) Switzerland (International Olympics Museum) and India (IIM Bangalore Shiv Nadar University). He was previously Executive Editor The Times of India-Online: Managing Editor India Today (English TV channel) and Consulting Editor The Times of India. He is the author of several bestselling and critically acclaimed books including The New BJP: Modi and the Remaking of the Worlds Largest Political Party India on Television (winner of the Asian Publishing Award for Best Book on Asian Media 2009) Behind a Billion Screens (longlisted as Business Book of the Year Tata Literature Live 2015) Dreams of a Billion (winner of the Ekamra Sports Book of the Year 2021 co-authored) and most recently India's Techade: Digital Revolution and Change in the World's Largest Democracy.
