Dr. Rahul Choudaha is a global higher education leader with nearly two decades of expertise in transnational education and international student mobility with an emphasis on student decision-making in the context of evolving immigration/visa policies, career/workforce trends, institutional/national priorities, and internationalization models/strategies.
After 18 years in the United States, he returned to India in 2024 as Head of Academic and Student Affairs at the Indian School of Business (ISB)—ranked among the global top 30 by the Financial Times—overseeing the delivery, and success of all academic programs. Previously, he served as Managing Director of Higher Education Research Solutions at Morning Consult, a Washington, DC–based global research and data intelligence firm, leading strategic engagements and thought leadership for universities, nonprofits and commercial organizations in the higher education sector. Before that, he was Director of Industry Insights & Research Communications at the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC) in the Washington, DC area, the owner of the GMAT exam, where he advanced data-driven perspectives on global graduate management education. Earlier, he held senior roles as Executive Vice President of Global Engagement and Research at Studyportals in the San Francisco Bay Area. Choudaha also worked for over seven years at World Education Services (WES) in New York City, where he led research and strategic engagements and last held the role of Chief Knowledge Officer and Senior Director of Strategic Development.
Dr. Choudaha is extensively networked and widely recognized as a subject-matter expert on higher education. He has presented nearly 200 conference sessions, including keynotes/plenaries, and has been quoted over 300 times in global publications, including BBC, Bloomberg, Inside Higher Ed, NPR, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Financial Times, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. Choudaha has served as a visiting scholar at the Center for Studies in Higher Education at the University of California, Berkeley, and Steinhardt, New York University. As an adjunct faculty member, Choudaha has taught at George Mason University and the University of Maryland Global Campus.
Dr. Choudaha holds a doctorate from the University of Denver, US, an MBA from IIM Mumbai, and a bachelor’s in engineering from Jabalpur Engineering College.
