Dr Narayan Bhattarai FHEA CMBE

Dr Narayan Bhattarai, FHEA, CMBE, is a Lecturer in Business and Management at the University of the West of Scotland. He holds a PhD in Entrepreneurship from Royal Holloway, University of London, alongside an MBA and MPhil from Tribhuvan University, and has completed the inSTIL teaching qualification at Royal Holloway. With over two decades of academic experience, he has taught across business, leadership and strategy, and management programmes in the UK and internationally.

His teaching spans entrepreneurship, leadership, strategy, digital business, sustainability, and international business, delivered through research‑informed and practice‑oriented approaches. His research focuses on international business, digital transformation, sustainability, and ethnic minority, diaspora and immigrant entrepreneurship. He also supervises PhD students and is actively involved in Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) and enterprise engagement activities.

Dr Bhattarai is a Recognised Associate Research Supervisor accredited by the UK Council for Graduate Education. His recent publications include articles in AIB Insights and Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, book chapters with Springer, and contributions to leading conferences such as the Academy of International Business and the British Academy of Management.