MDI Gurgaon is led by its Director, Professor Arvind Sahay. He  joined MDI as Director and Professor of Marketing and International Business in October 2023. Prior to MDI, he served as faculty at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (from 2004) and at London Business School (from 1996) since his Ph.D. in 1996 from the University of Texas at Austin.

His primary areas of interest include marketing strategy, pricing, neuroscience and consumer behavior, brand management, high tech marketing, and international trade and investment. Sectorally, he has consulted and done work in pharmaceuticals, cement, building materials, telecom, broadcast, automotive, IT, FMCG, education and financial services sectors among others.

MDI Gurgaon faculty combines scholarship, experience, and innovative pedagogy to bring best-in-class learning both in classroom and out of it. The faculty carries out cutting edge research and regularly publishes in peer-reviewed international journals. The MDI faculty is a healthy blend of academicians, policy makers, administrators and managers. As a consequence, the Institute’s students are able to get a rich mix of state-of-the-art academic research as well as best practices from industry.

Faculty carries out cutting edge research and regularly publishes in peer-reviewed international journals.