Naresh is Professor of International Business at Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia. He previously worked at Manchester Business School, University of Manchester where he obtained his PhD in 1995 and then took up appointments as Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Economics.
Naresh's research focuses on the link between business clustering and economic performance and on corporate insolvency and turnaround and has been funded by grants from the British Academy, Corporation of London, DTI, ESRC, the European Union, the Institute of Chartered Accountants, and the North West Regional Development Agency.