Prashant Malaviya, Professor of Marketing and Vice Dean of Programs, has spearheaded the establishment of the Georgetown University McDonough School of Business operations in Dubai. He came to Georgetown in 2008 after nine years at INSEAD, France. Prior to INSEAD, he held an appointment at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and visiting professorships at the Wharton School, as the Titan Industries Professor at ALBA Graduate Business School in Athens, Greece, and at the Kellogg School of Management.

Malaviya is a consumer psychologist by training and received his Ph.D. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. His research focuses on understanding how consumers use information to make product judgments and consumption decisions. His research has been published in leading marketing journals, including the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Consumer Psychology, Journal of Marketing, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, and Psychology & Marketing.

He was awarded the Emerald Citation of Excellence for publishing “one of the top 50 management articles in 2007,” was a finalist for the Best MBA Core Teacher award at INSEAD, and was named Outstanding Reviewer by the Journal of Consumer Research. He currently serves on the editorial review board of the Journal of Consumer Psychology. Prior to entering the world of academia (and consumers), Malaviya worked in India as an engineer at Tata Motors and as a marketing analyst at Nestlé.