Navi Radjou

Who is Navi Radjou?

Navi Radjou is an innovation and leadership strategist based in Silicon Valley. He is also a Fellow at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, and a World Economic Forum faculty member. He is a member of WEF’s Global Agenda Council on Design Innovation and a regular columnist on Harvard Business Review.

Navi is co-author of the international bestseller Jugaad Innovation: Think Frugal, Be Flexible, Generate Breakthrough Growth. The Economist calls it “the most comprehensive book yet to appear on the subject” of frugal innovation. Navi is also co-author of From Smart To Wise, a book on next generation leadership.

In 2013, Navi received the Thinkers50 Innovation Award—given to a management thinker who is re-shaping the way we think about and practice innovation. In addition, his book Jugaad Innovation was shortlisted for the 2013 Thinkers50 CK Prahalad Breakthrough Idea Award.

Till 2011, Navi served as the Executive Director of the Centre for India & Global Business at Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge, where Jaideep Prabhu is the Director.

Prior to Cambridge, Radjou spent ten years in the US, primarily as Vice President at Forrester Research,a leading US-based technology research and consulting firm. At Forrester, he investigated how globalized innovation — with the rise of India and China as both a source and market for innovations — is driving new market structures and organizational models called "Global Innovation Networks".