Dr. Nanda Shrestha
A geographer by training, Dr. Nanda Shrestha is a professor in the Department of Management and Marketing in the School of Business & Industry (SBI) at Florida A&M University (FAMU). He teaches World Resources and World Cultures for Business, both required graduate courses in SBI’s professional MBA program. For the past three summers (2005, 2006, and 2007), Dr. Shrestha has served as director of FAMU-SBI’s International Business (IB) Summer Camp program, which is an integral component of the school’s “Global Opportunities on I-10” project funded through a BIE (Business and International Education) grant from the US Department of Education. Dr. Nanda Shrestha is the director and principal investigator of the second BIE grant (2007-2009) that was recently awarded to FAMU in May 2007.
Dr. Shrestha has extensive teaching and research experience in topics related to international development, cross-cultural understanding, and globalization/global economy, and has traveled in many parts of Asia and North America. He has published widely in business, geography, international development, and interdisciplinary journals. His publications include five books, 35 journal articles, and more than 30 book chapters, proceeding papers, and monographs. The focus of his research is on population, international development, globalization, resource management, cross-cultural management, and Black consumer market. He has received and directed several research grants, including three from the National Science Foundation and two from the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations. As a recipient of Fulbright-Hays summer scholarship, he spent 5 weeks in South Korea in the early 1990s. He has received many teaching, research, and service awards, including SBI’s academic faculty of the year awards two years in a row (voted by SBI students) and has served as president of the Association of American Geographers’ Asian Geography Specialty Group.