Meena Chavan is an Associate Professor of International Business and Entrepreneurship and Program Director of the Master of Research (Management) at Macquarie Business School, Sydney, Australia. Her internationally recognised research and academic leadership span international business, entrepreneurship, and sustainability, contributing to interdisciplinary solutions to global societal challenges. She is a member of the Innovation, Strategy and Entrepreneurship Research Centre, the Centre for Applied Artificial Intelligence, and the Global Indigenous Futures Research Centre at Macquarie University.

A carbon-literate economic anthropologist, Meena examines how people produce, distribute, trade, consume, and exchange goods and services within their cultural, historical, and geographical contexts. Her work seeks to understand the social causes and consequences of economic activity, with particular attention to how immigrant, refugee, women, and Indigenous entrepreneurs create meaning and value through entrepreneurship.

She brings a strong industry background to academia, having previously worked as a mergers and acquisitions analyst and auditor with KPMG and Ernst & Young. Her international academic experience includes research fellowships at EMLV – École de Commerce et de Management à Paris (Pôle Universitaire Léonard de Vinci), France, and at the University of Hamburg, School of Business, Economics and Social Sciences, Germany.

Meena is a methodologically pluralist scholar, employing both qualitative and quantitative approaches at the intersection of international business and entrepreneurship. Her research focuses on the interface between entrepreneurship, international business, government–MNE strategy, and broader societal issues, examining how macro-, meso-, and micro-level institutional forces shape firm strategies and outcomes.

Her work has been published in leading international journals, including Journal of Business Ethics, 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 and the Environment, Technovation, International Marketing Review, Habitat International, and International Journal of Intercultural Relations, among others.

She is the author and editor of four scholarly books: Intercultural Management in Practice (Emerald, 2021); Exploring the Economic Opportunities and Impacts of Migrant Entrepreneurship (IGI Global, 2022); Indigenous Women Entrepreneurs in Australia: Shooting for the Stars (Routledge, 2025); and Women’s Entrepreneurship in the Asian Region (Routledge, 2025).

Meena serves on the editorial review boards of Journal of International Management, Small Business Economics, and European Journal of International Management, and has served as Guest Editor for special issues on underdog and Indigenous entrepreneurship in Journal of Business Research and Entrepreneurship & Regional Development. She has led and delivered eleven interdisciplinary international and domestic research and consultancy projects in collaboration with governments, academic institutions, and industry partners.

She is a member of the Academy of Management and the Academy of International Business and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK). She has received the Vice-Chancellor’s Citation for sustained leadership in experiential and work-integrated learning and has supervised ten doctoral completions as principal supervisor, alongside numerous honours and Master of Research theses.

Her scholarly contributions have been recognised through six Best Paper Awards at leading international conferences, including the Academy of Management (INDAM 2023; AoM 2017), EURAM (2016), ANZAM (2015), IHRM (2015), and ICSB (2005).