Pradeep Nair
Deputy Vice Chancellor
Taylor’s University
Pradeep Nair is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Taylor's University in Malaysia and has oversight over 12 schools and three centres. He lectures regularly in General Management, Strategic Management and Human Resources management at post graduate levels. His most significant achievement has been to turn Taylor's School of Hospitality, Tourism and Culinary Arts into Asia's largest school of its kind with over 3300 students from over 80 countries. In 2007, Pradeep was named as one of the 100 most influential personalities in the hospitality industry in Malaysia. In the same year, under Pradeep's leadership. the school went on to win the Hospitality Asia Platinum Award, as Hospitality Institution of the Year. In 2008, the school won the PATA Gold Award for Education and Training. Pradeep is a member of the Industry Advisory Board of University Malaysia, Terengganu. In 2009, he was appointed by the Minister of Human Resources as a member of the Human Resources Development Council Advisory Board. In 2010 he was appointed by the Minister of Higher Education as a Curriculum Board member for Polytechnics in Malaysia. In 2012, Pradeep has been conferred the “Education Leadership Award” by the World Education Congress, in recognition for his outstanding leadership and contributions in the field of higher education.
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