Nitin Sanghavi is Professor of Retail Marketing and Strategy at Manchester Business School (MBS), UK. Nitin joined MBS in 1985, after spending several years holding senior positions in buying, merchandising, operations and commercial areas for a number major retail and retail-related organisations in the UK and overseas.

Nitin, ranked as one of the world’s top retail professors and a foremost expert on retail franchising, has published over 110 academic and other articles, conference papers chapters, books, case-studies on a number of subjects. Nitin was given the Retail Leadership Award and an award for Retail Excellence by the Asia Retail Congress in 2008 and 2009. He was also given the “Bharat Gaurav” Award in 2015 for his outstanding contributions.