{"id":6550,"date":"2021-03-31T13:22:13","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T17:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bhr\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=6550"},"modified":"2022-07-11T14:34:42","modified_gmt":"2022-07-11T18:34:42","slug":"kaushik-vardharajan","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bhr\/profile\/kaushik-vardharajan\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaushik Vardharajan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kaushik Vardharajan<\/strong> has almost two decades of global hotel consulting and development experience. Kaushik started his consulting career with HVS and spent 15 years there, starting in New York, and then lead the firm\u2019s operations as Managing Director &#8211; South Asia in Delhi and as Partner Managing Director &#8211; Asia Pacific in Singapore. Kaushik worked on and oversaw over 1,500 valuations, feasibility studies, management contract negotiations and strategic consulting assignments while at HVS. <span>Kaushik then spent almost four years at Hilton as Vice President Development &#8211; South Asia and led Hilton\u2019s growth and expansion across India, Bangladesh, Bhutan and Nepal through management and franchise agreements. Kaushik has<\/span> lectured on global hotel markets and hospitality real estate at Boston University\u2019s School of Hospitality Administration.<\/p>\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h2 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Issues as Editor<\/h2><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bhr\/2021\/04\/01\/from-the-editors-desk\/\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Editor,\u00a0<\/span>Boston Hospitality Review<\/a> \u2013 April 2021<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"bu_collapsible_container \" aria-live=\"polite\" data-customize-animation=\"false\"><h2 class=\"bu_collapsible\" aria-expanded=\"false\"tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\">Article Publications<\/h2><div class=\"bu_collapsible_section\" style=\"display: none;\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bhr\/2020\/03\/24\/travel-will-not-unravel-looking-at-and-beyond-the-covid-19-crisis\/\">Travel Will Not Unravel: Looking At and Beyond the COVID-19 Crisis, Boston Hospitality Review<\/a> \u2013 Special Edition: Covid-19 Crisis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"author":16771,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bhr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/6550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bhr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bhr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bhr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16771"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bhr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/6550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9507,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bhr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/6550\/revisions\/9507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bhr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}