Farok Contractor

Professor Farok Contractor, a Rutgers Distinguished Professor, teaches International Business Policy, a course designed to introduce managers to the major international environmental influences on their future decisions, and to basic analytical tools such as foreign expansion alternatives, hedging of foreign exchange risk, and analysis of international alliances.

Dr. Contractor has also taught at the Wharton School, Copenhagen Business School, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Nanyang Technological University, Indian Institutes of Management (Ahmedabad, Bangalore and Calcutta), Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, XLRI (India), Lubin School of Business, Theseus, EDHEC and conducted executive seminars in the U.S., Europe, Latin America and Asia. He is a noted researcher in the field, an elected Fellow of the Academy of International Business whose over 150 articles and 11 books have been cited more than 14,700  times (as of August 2021) by other authors around the world. Dr. Contractor’s research focuses on Foreign Direct Investment, negotiating international strategic alliances and joint ventures, outsourcing and offshoring and valuation of intellectual assets.

He is currently President of the Academy of International Business (2021 – 2022), having been elected to a three-year term on the Executive Board of the Academy of International Business to serve as President-Elect (2020 – 2021), President (2021 – 2022) and Immediate ...