Raaj Chandran
PhD Student
Advertising, Public Relations and Media Design

Raaj Chandran holds an MBA from Ohio State UniversityÌýand an MA in mass communication from University of Florida.

He has two decades of communication management, public relations, advertising and marketing experience in Canada, the United StatesÌýand Singapore, with exposure to 17 countries across Europe, Southeast Asia and the Middle East.

In his career, RaajÌýhas served as communication leader for Europe and Asia for a global environmental engineering firm, director of communications for a national nonprofit in Washington, D.C., corporate communications manager for an American luxury retailer in the Middle EastÌýand communication manager for a natural resources research agency in Florida. Presently he runs his own consulting agency,Ìý

He has taught at the National University of Singapore, Royal Roads University in CanadaÌýand Purdue University in the Unites States.

Raaj has publishedÌý, several blog pieces and poems.

Environmental preservation, affordable and well-rounded education, creation of ethical, tolerant and vibrant work culturesÌýand intercultural harmony are some of the causes close to his heart.Ìý

Raaj's research interests include strategic communication in an era of world citizenship, cultural sensitivity in international communicationÌýand a humanist approach to communication.