Dr. Priyank Narayan

Department of Entrepreneurship & Management Faculty at Ashoka University

Speaker

Dr. Priyank Narayan is a faculty at the Department of Entrepreneurship and Management at Ashoka University, where he also serves as the Founding Director of the Centre for Entrepreneurship. His work focuses on building entrepreneurial capacity among students and supporting early-stage ventures through teaching, mentorship, and institutional initiatives.

Prior to joining academia, he spent several years as an entrepreneur and management consultant, bringing a practice-oriented perspective to his teaching. At Ashoka, he has been closely involved in shaping the university’s entrepreneurship curriculum and is part of the founding team setting up the School of Management.

Dr. Narayan is also a Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School. He is a recipient of the IBM Global Faculty Award.

He is the co-author of 2 national bestsellers - Leapfrog: Six Practices to Thrive, that has been translated into five languages, and LeanSpark: Frugal by Design, Global in Impact, which explores building globally relevant ventures through constraint-driven innovation.

Dr. Narayan holds a Ph.D. from IIT Delhi, India.