Anil K. Gupta is widely recognized as one of the world's leading experts on strategy, globalization, and emerging markets. He is the Michael Dingman chair in strategy and entrepreneurship at the Smith School of Business, University of Maryland. He is also a visiting professor of strategy at INSEAD where he served as the INSEAD chaired professor in strategy until December 31, 2010. Gupta also serves as chief advisor to The China India Institute, a Washington, DC-based research and consulting organization. He has earlier served as a visiting professor at Stanford University and Dartmouth College.

Gupta's newest book, Global Strategies for Emerging Asia, was published in July 2012. Before that, Getting China and India Right: Leveraging the World's Fastest-Growing Economies for Global Advantage (Wiley, 2009) - coauthored with Haiyan Wang - received the 2009 Axiom Book Awards' Silver Prize as one of the world's two best books on globalization and international business and was a finalist for the Asia Society's Annual Bernard Schwartz Book Award. Gupta is also the author, co-author, and co-editor of The Quest for Global Dominance: Transforming Global Presence into Global Competitive Advantage; Smart Globalization: Designing Global Strategies, Creating Global Networks; and Global Strategy and Organization; as well as over 70 papers in leading academic journals.

The recipient of numerous awards for research and teaching, Gupta has been recognized by The Economist magazine as one of the world's "rising superstars" in a cover story on innovation in emerging economies. He is also a recipient of the 2010 Best Professor in Strategic Management Award from CMO Asia. In addition, he has been recognized by BusinessWeek as an Outstanding Faculty in its "Guide to the Best B-Schools," been inducted into the Academy of Management Journals' Hall of Fame, and was ranked by Management International Review as one of the Top 20 North American Superstars for research in strategy and organization. He is an elected lifetime fellow of the Academy of International Business as well as of the Strategic Management Society.