Bhavesh Patel

Bhavesh Patel, a Senior Fulbright Research Scholar from USA to Lebanon, 2008-09, was earlier Director, Adani Institute for Education & Research (AIER), an umbrella body of two institutions, namely, Adani Institute of Infrastructure Management (AIIM) and Adani Institute of Infrastructure Engineering (AIIE).

He studied at the Bhavan’s College, Dakor (Gujarat) to earn his degree Bachelor of Commerce (1974), I. V. Patel College of Commerce, Nadiad (Gujarat) to earn degree Masters of Commerce (1976) both from Gujarat University. He earned his Ph. D. in finance in 1990 from Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat.

Bhavesh Patel is in academia for forty years now. In the initial academic career, he taught in the BBA Program, B. J. Commerce College, Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Gujarat, before joining the finance department of XLRI, Jamshedpur in 1985. After 15 years at XLRI, Jamshedpur he shifted to the USA, where he worked for a brief period in the industry for designing financial reporting systems and then taught at California State University, Stanislaus for a semester in 2001-02 before joining the Myers University, Cleveland, Ohio in 2002. In April 2009 he returned to India to join as a Director of School of Petroleum Management, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, Gandhinagar, Gujarat. From November 2009 to March 2010 he also held charge as Director General of the University. In December 2011 he joined Ahmedabad University as Dean of Amrut Mody School of Management.