Sanjay Patnaik

Sanjay Patnaik is currently a Visiting Lecturer and Senior Fellow in the Management Department at the Wharton School, The University of Pennsylvania. Sanjay earned his Doctorate in Business Administration (Strategy) from Harvard Business School in 2012. His main areas of interest are international business, non-market strategy and the political economy of environmental regulation.

Sanjay’s research is focused on the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS), the largest active cap-and-trade program for greenhouse gases in the world. He specifically studies the interaction of firms and regulators within the EU ETS and examines the importance of institutional characteristics in the implementation of this multinational regulatory program. His teaching experience includes his class “The Economics of International Business and Globalization” at the Harvard University Department of Economics, taught in 2010. For teaching this class, he was awarded the “Harvard University Certificate of Distinction in Teaching” by the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning. In addition, he worked as a group facilitator for the Harvard Business School Executive Education Program “Leading Change and Organizational Renewal” from 2009 to 2011.

Prior to the completion of his doctoral studies at Harvard Business School (2007-2012), Sanjay worked in investment banking in Germany and academia in Austria. He holds a Master's degree in Economics and Computer Science and a Master's degree in Business Engineering and Computer Science, both from the Vienna University of Technology in Austria. During his studies he obtained expertise in finance, energy economics and management and spent time abroad at universities in Spain and the United States. In his spare time Sanjay enjoys traveling, reading and ballroom dancing. He speaks German, English, Spanish and French.