Shekhar Chaudhuri

Shekhar Chaudhuri is an Indian academic and management professor. He is a former director of the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta.^[1]

Chaudhuri graduated from IIT Kharagpur in 1972 with a B.Tech. (Hons) degree in Mechanical Engineering. Subsequently he worked for Larsen & Toubro Limited as a graduate engineer trainee. In 1975, he joined the Fellow Programme in Management (equivalent to Ph.D.) at IIM Ahmedabad, where he specialized in Business Policy. On completion of his doctoral studies in 1979, he joined Calico Mills, Ahmedabad, where he initially worked as staff assistant to the vice chairman and managing director and later as manager of the cloth department and manager of the organization development cell.

In 1981, Chaudhuri moved into academics and joined his alma-mater IIM Ahmedabad as an assistant professor in the business policy area. He worked at IIM-A till November 2002, when he joined IIM Calcutta as the director of the institute.

Chaudhuri has held faculty and administrative positions in several institutions of higher learning in his long career. During August 1989 and August 1991, he was a visiting professor in the Department of Management at the College of Business and Administration, Southern Illinois University Carbondale; visiting professor in the Strategy, Organization and Human Resources Group at ESCP Europe in its Paris campus during October – December, 1998; and dean of the Vinod Gupta School of Management, IIT Kharagpur during the period of May 2000 to December 2001.

Chaudhuri has been a consultant to several organizations both in the private and public sectors. Besides, he has also been a consultant to the World Bank. At the World Bank, Chaudhuri led the Indian part of a major international research effort on Institutional and Policy Priorities for Industrial Technological Development.

Currently he sits on the boards/governing councils of several organizations/institutions, including Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar; Indian Jute Industries' Research Association, Kolkata; Assam Institute of Management; and Gujarat Industries Power Corporation Limited. Currently he is a member of the National Manufacturing Competitiveness Council set up by the Government of India.

Dr.Shekhar Chaudhari served the position of founding director at school of management and entrepreneurship, Shiv nadar university for 2 years.^[2]

References

External links

• Indian Institute of Management Calcutta Biography
• Indian Institute of Management Calcutta Faculty Information
• Indian Institute of Management Calcutta