Tabrez Ahmad prior taking up the role of Senior Executive Director at Chandigarh University in 2023, He was the Vice Chancellor of GD Goenka University. He has served in various academic and administrative positions such as Pro-Vice Chancellor, Galgotias University; Director & Dean, UPES Dehradun; Professor & Director, at Alliance University Bengaluru; Founder Director DILS, University of Burdwan;
Head IPR Cell of UPES-UCOST (UK Council of Science & Technology); Professor of Cyber Law & IPR & Head at KIIT University; Mentor at Technology Business Incubator, NSTEDB, Govt. Tabrez holds a PhD in Cyber Law & IPR, LLM in Commercial Law & Cyber Law; and B.Sc (Hons) from AMU Aligarh, India. Tabrez is founder and President Technolex and National President PNGI Forum. He is also the National Vice President of International Council of Jurists London, Chair, Legal Education Section of Indian National Bar Association and Mentor World Teen Parliament MPs of Blub World. He is in the advisory panel of various academic and professional institutions of International repute. A Prolific speaker on Higher Education, EdTech, OBE, NEP 2020, Systems and Processes, Multidisciplinary research, Cyberlaw, IPR, regulation of Darknet, AI & ChatGPT. Delivered Keynotes and speaker in more than 200 prestigious International conferences held in, USA, UK, China, Japan, UAE, Egypt, Singapore, Thailand, etc. He has also practiced for a while at the bar of Delhi High Court and Supreme Court of India. He has authored a pioneering book entitled "Cyber Law, E-commerce and M-commerce" and Edited 2 books on IPR and Law & Technology and published more than 100 papers in reputed journals. He is an active blogger, Youtuber, and editor of various International journals. By USA based SSRN he is ranked among the Top 100 Law Authors in the World. Awarded the "Outstanding Academician of Higher Education" during the 25th World Education Summit at Dubai 2023. Awarded with the Ambassador of the Green Planet Award, 2022 by BlomHo Global & Golden Signatures in Collaboration with NITI Aayog Govt. of India. Awarded as India’s Most Impactful Vice Chancellor by Edu Star 2022. Awarded by Observenow for Exemplary leadership in higher education 2022. Awarded APAC Education Leadership Awards 2021 in recognition of an Exemplary leader who made a difference and extraordinary contribution in education sector. In 2020 he became one of the Youngest Vice-Chancellor in the World. He is among the IPLEADERS-2019 Top 100 most followed LinkedIn lawyers and has been ranked at 13 in the world. Awarded the best Keynote Speaker by the SIETIIE 2019 and Awarded “Top 50 IP Players” by IPR Gorilla USA. Awarded for the best research paper at the 22nd World Multiconference 2018, at Florida USA. He has worked on the UNDP, World Bank, Tuning India RISHII ( Resources for Internationalization of Higher Education Institutions in India) Project of Deusto University Spain, Ministry of Law & Justice project on Criminal Law reforms and Fuel Blending Project of the Ministry of Petroleum. Tabrez promotes academic and professional excellence and nurtures empathy to socio-cultural, economic and gender diversity; prioritizes the creation of an ecosystem that stresses meritocracy and a passion for academic excellence.
