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New IIMA, IIMB directors: Experts on markets, manufacturing
Shubhajit Roy / AMITAV RANJAN
Posted online: Saturday, October 06, 2007 at 0000 hrs
HRD’s shortlist: Pankaj Chandra of IIMA as Director of IIMB and Sameer K Barua, also of IIMA, as Director of IIMA
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(From left) Sameer Barua, G Raghuram, J Ramachandran and Prakash Chandra (?-Should be Pankaj Chandra) | NEW DELHI, OCTOBER 5: Who will be the next directors of the two premier Indian Institutes of Management, IIM Ahmedabad and IIM Bangalore? The race for the top jobs in the country’s most prestigious business schools has now narrowed down to four of the top faculty at the two IIMs themselves. Two of them have been to IITs, a third to Institute of Technology at BHU, and between them, they cover some of the most significant areas in management and economics: from capital markets and international finance to infrastructure, technology and corporate transformation. |
| The HRD Ministry, sources have confirmed to The Indian Express, has shortlisted Pankaj Chandra of IIMA as Director of IIMB and Sameer K Barua, also of IIMA, as Director of IIMA. The file is with the Department of Personnel & Training from where it will go to the Cabinet Secretary for approval by the Home Minister followed by the Prime Minister.
The Ministry has also named, as “second candidates,” J Ramachandran of IIMB for the top job at IIMB and G Raghuram of IIMA for the directorship at IIMA. These names were sent after the HRD Minister’s approval on the basis of recommendations of the search-cum-selection committee headed by Rediff CEO and IIM Kolkata’s governing body chairman Ajit Balakrishnan. The formal announcement is expected to be made next week as IIMA director Bakul Dholakia retires on October 9. Barua is considered an expert on capital markets, portfolio theory and international finance since 1980, he has prepared policy papers for the Finance Minister, the RBI Governor and FICCI. Barua, the son-in-law of CPI leader A B Bardhan, did his M Tech in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from IIT Kanpur. Author of “The Great Indian Scam: the story of missing Rs 4,000 cr,” Barua is currently one of the members of the IIM-A governing body. He was chairperson of the two-year MBA programme between 2002 and 2004 when there was the maximum increase in seats. He has also been on the Placement committee, Admissions panel of IIM-A, and been awarded “Best Teacher” award at IIM several times. Raghuram, an IIM-A professor in Public Systems group, he is an expert on infrastructure and transportation systems. A B.Tech (Electrical engineering) from IIT-Madras, he got his MBA from IIM-A and PhD from the Kellogg school. He taught at Kellogg’s and at the A B Freeman school of business at Tulane University, before joining IIM-A. His most recent and high-profile work has been the study on Indian Railways and its turnaround. Pankaj Chandra did his B.Tech from the Institute of Technology, BHU, and has a PhD from Wharton. He is currently professor of Operations & Technology Management at IIMA and is chairperson of its doctoral programme. He has taught at McGill University, Montreal, the Universities of Geneva and Philadelphia, and at universities in China and Japan. Chandra’s special areas of interest are supply-chain co-ordination and management of technology in manufacturing. He has been associated with the National Knowledge Commission, the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, and the Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad. J Ramachandran is a professor of business policy at IIM, Bangalore. A CA with a PhD from IIMA, his areas of interest are corporate transformation. He is also studying the globalisation of firms. Ramachandran is a visiting professor at Wharton and has been a consultant to Daimler Chrysler, HP, Wipro, and Infosys. | |
 | Biography of Pankaj Chandra
http://www.iimahd.ernet.in/faculty/facultydetails.php?id=120 |
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