Meena Chavan is an Associate Professor of International Business and Entrepreneurship and Program Director Master of Research(Management) at the Macquarie Business School, Sydney, Australia. She is a member of the Innovation, Strategy & Entrepreneurship Research Centre at Macquarie University.

She has a strong industry background and prior to this role she has worked as a merger & acquisition analyst & auditor with KPMG and Ernst & Young. She has a Bachelors degree majoring in Accounting and Auditing and Business Management, Masters degree majoring in Entrepreneurship and Business Administration and a PhD in International Entrepreneurship.

Meena is an active researcher, using both qualitative and quantitative method designs at the intersection of International Business and Entrepreneurship. Her research focuses at the interface of international business, entrepreneurship, government-MNE strategy, societal issues for exploring the interplay of macro, micro and meso factors in understanding the unique aspects and impacts of the institutional contexts on firm strategies.  

• Published in top-tier ranked journals such as Journal of World Business, Academy of Management Discoveries, Journal of International Management, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Small Business Management, International Business Review, Business Strategy & the Environment, Technovation, International Marketing Review, Habitat International, International Journal of Intercultural Relations.
• Published two books :

1.Chavan, M. & Taksa, L. (2021). Intercultural management in practice—Learning to lead diverse global organisations. Edited Book. Emerald Publications, Australia. 

2.Chavan, M. & Nandkeolyar, S. (2022). Exploring the Economic Opportunities and Impacts of Migrant Entrepreneurship: Success Stories and Case Studies. IGI Global Publications. The book acquaints the reader with high-performing successful international entrepreneurs in Australia. 

• Serves on the editorial review board of Journal of International Management ( ABDC- Rank A), Small Business Economics- An Entrepreneurship Journal( ABDC- Rank A number 2 in Management) and the European Journal of International Management.
• Guest Editor for a special issue on "Underdog Entrepreneurs" in the Journal of Business Research.
• Successfully delivered and implemented eleven complex, interdisciplinary international and domestic research and consultancy projects/ contracts working with Australian and international government, academics, governmental agencies, and industry partners.
• Member of the Academy of Management( AoM) and the Academy of International Business (AIB).
• Awarded the Vice Chancellors citation for sustained leadership in experiential and work integrated learning approaches in International Business.
• Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, UK.
• Demonstrated excellence in her record of successful supervision of higher degree by research (HDR) students with a more than decade-long record as the principal supervisor of ten doctoral and several Hons completions. 
• Recipient of six Best Paper Awards at distinguished conferences AoM INDAM (2023), AoM (2017), EURAM (2016), ANZAM (2015), IHRM (2015) and ICSB (2005).