Vinod Jain serves on the full time faculty of the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, and is President and CEO of the India-US World Affairs Institute, Inc. A true cosmopolitan and Fulbright Scholar, Vinod has lived and worked in India, the United States, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, China, and the Middle East. During the last ten years, he has received and managed five competitive grants from the U.S. Department of Education, including a $1.43 million grant in 2006 to establish the Center for International Business Education and Research at the University of Maryland, which he headed until February 2009. Vinod teaches "strategy", "global strategy", and "emerging markets" on Smith School's MBA program, and "strategy" at the University of Lodz in Poland. He has also taught on Smith School's Executive MBA program in China and Switzerland. His current research involves measuring regional innovation in the United States, a project funded partially by the IBM Center for the Business of Government. Prior to returning to academia in 1990, Vinod worked in industry for some fifteen years and held a variety of middle and senior executive positions with multinational corporations. And, he has been honored by the Governors of both Ohio (2001) and Maryland (2004) for his services to their states. He has a Ph.D. in business and management from the University of Maryland and Master's degrees in Management (UCLA) and Statistics (Indian Statistical Institute). He serves on the Maryland/Washington D.C. District Export Council, to which he was appointed by the Secretary, U.S. Department of Commerce.