UPES is honoured to welcome Dr. Nalin Mehta as Dean, School of Modern Media, and Advisor, Global University Systems. Dr. Mehta is a leader par excellence, media maestro, award-winning social scientist and author. He previously helmed the role of Executive Editor at Times of India – Online and spearheaded innovations on big data and election coverage, digital video, and interactive news story-telling. He has also led India Today (English TV news channel) as Managing Editor. Nalin has authored critically acclaimed books including India On Television (winner of the Asian Publishing Award for Best Book on Asian Media, 2009), Behind a Billion Screens (Shortlisted as Business Book of the Year, Tata Literary Live, 2015), and his latest co-authored national best-seller, Dreams of a Billion. Join us in extending a warm welcome and wishing Dr. Nalin Mehta a long & fruitful tenure with UPES.
UPES is honoured to welcome Dr. Nalin Mehta as Dean
By Nalin Mehta
Nalin Mehta is Managing Editor, Moneycontrol, Chief AI Officer - Editorial Operations, Network18 and Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore. He is an award-winning Indian journalist, political scientist and author who has held senior leadership positions in major media companies and educational institutions; served as an international civil servant with the UN and the Global Fund in Geneva, Switzerland; taught and held research positions at universities and institutions in Australia (La Trobe University, ANU), Singapore (NUS), Switzerland (International Olympic Museum) and India (Shiv Nadar University, IIM Bangalore). Most recently, he has been Dean and Professor at School of Modern Media, UPES University. He has previously been Group Consulting Editor, Network18; Executive Editor, The Times of India-Online, Managing Editor, India Today (TV channel) and Consulting Editor, The Times of India. Mehta is the author of several best-selling and critically acclaimed books, including The New BJP: Modi and the Making of the World’s Largest Political Party (hailed as a ‘seminal’ work, No. 1 on Amazon’s bestseller lists for 26 consecutive weeks in 2022, and republished worldwide in several languages); India’s Techade: Digital Revolution and Change in the World’s Largest Democracy, India on Television (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) and Dreams of a Billion (2022 Ekamra Sports Book of the Year Award, co-authored). His edited books include Gujarat Beyond Gandhi (co-editor), Television in India and The Changing Face of Cricket (co-editor). Mehta is a DFID-Commonwealth scholar with a Ph.D in Political Science from Trobe University, Melbourne; M.A. International Relations from University of East Anglia, UK; and B.A. Journalism (Honours) from University of Delhi.
