This list of IIM Ahmedabad alumni includes notable alumni, professors, and administrators affiliated with

Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM Ahmedabad) is the world's number 1 business school, located in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. The school has been accorded the status of an Institute of National Importance by Ministry of Human Resourc ...

. Note that this is not an exhaustive list.

Academics

C. K. Prahalad Coimbatore Krishnarao Prahalad (8 August 1941 – 16 April 2010) was an Indian-American entrepreneur and author. He was the Paul and Ruth McCracken Distinguished University Professor of Corporate Strategy at the University of Michigan Step ...

'66,

Padma Shri Padma Shri ( IAST: ''padma śrī''), also spelled Padma Shree, is the fourth-highest civilian award of the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan. Instituted on 2 January 1954, the award is conf ...

awardee, former Distinguished University professor at

University of Michigan , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

Ross School of Business The Stephen M. Ross School of Business, also known as Michigan Ross, is the business school of the University of Michigan, a public research university in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Founded in 1924, the school is ranked among the best business schools i ...

; author of ''

The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid The concept of ''The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid'' originally appeared as an article by C. K. Prahalad and Stuart L. Hart in the business journal ''Strategy+Business''. The article was followed by a book with the same title that discusses ...

'' *

Besant C. Raj Besant C. Raj (5 February 1933 – 12 March 2018) was an Indian management and financial consultant. He was a founding member of ICFAI University. He was an advisor to many government and non-government organizations in the state of Chennai, ...

'66, cofounder and Chancellor of ICFAI University, Hyderabad * Labdhi Bhandari '67 – State Trading Corporation Professor of Marketing, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad *

Marti G. Subrahmanyam Marti G. Subrahmanyam is the Charles E. Merrill Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University. He also teaches for the Master of Science in Global Finance (MSGF), which is a joint program between Stern and the Hon ...

'69 – Charles E. Merrill Professor of Finance at the

Stern School of Business The New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business (commonly referred to as NYU Stern, The Stern School of Business, or simply Stern) is the business school of New York University, a private research university based in New York City. I ...

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then- Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. In 1832, th ...

Ravi Jagannathan Ravi Jagannathan is an American economist. He is a chaired professor at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. With the exception of the period 1989–1997 when he was a professor at the University of Minnesota, Jagannathan ...

'72 – Chicago Mercantile Exchange/John F. Sandner Professor of Finance at the

Kellogg School of Management The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University (also known as Kellogg) is the business school of Northwestern University, a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Founded in 1908, Kellogg is one of the oldest and most p ...

* Anil K. Gupta (scholar) '72, Michael D. Dingman Chair in Strategy, Globalization, and Entrepreneurship at

University of Maryland The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland. Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of ...

’s

Robert H. Smith School of Business The Robert H. Smith School of Business (Smith School) is the business school at the University of Maryland, College Park, a public research university in College Park, Maryland. The school was named after alumnus Robert H. Smith (Accounting '50) ...

* A. Parasuraman '72, Emeritus Professor of Marketing and James W. McLamore Chair Emeritus,

University of Miami The University of Miami (UM, UMiami, Miami, U of M, and The U) is a private research university in Coral Gables, Florida. , the university enrolled 19,096 students in 12 colleges and schools across nearly 350 academic majors and programs, i ...

* Beheruz Sethna '73 – 1st President of

University of West Georgia The University of West Georgia is a public university in Carrollton, Georgia. The university offers a satellite campus in Newnan, Georgia, select classes at its Douglasville Center, and off-campus Museum Studies classes at the Atlanta History Ce ...

* Sri Zaheer '75 - Dean,

Carlson School of Management The Curtis L. Carlson School of Management is the business school of the University of Minnesota, a public research university in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota. The Carlson School offers undergraduate and graduat ...

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public land-grant research university in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. ...

* Sushil Vachani '76, Former Director,

Indian Institute of Management Bangalore Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIM Bangalore or IIMB) is a public business school and Institute of National Importance located in Bangalore, India. Founded in 1973, it was the third IIM to be established, after IIM Calcutta and II ...

* Srikant Datar '78,

awardee, Dean at

Harvard Business School Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate business school of Harvard University, a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. It is consistently ranked among the top business schools in the world and offers a large full-time MBA ...

, formerly Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School * Shekhar Chaudhuri FPM'79 – former Director,

Indian Institute of Management Calcutta Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM Calcutta or IIM-C) is a public business school located in Joka, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It was the first Indian Institute of Management to be established, and has been recognized as an Institu ...

* Amitava Chattopadhyay '81, Professor of Marketing and the GlaxoSmithKline Chaired Professor of Corporate Innovation at

INSEAD INSEAD, a contraction of "Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires" () is a non-profit business school that maintains campuses in Europe (Fontainebleau, France), Asia (Singapore), the Middle East (Abu Dhabi, UAE), and North America (San ...

Siddhartha Chib Siddhartha Chib is an econometrician and statistician, the Harry C. Hartkopf Professor of Econometrics and Statistics at Washington University in St. Louis. His work is primarily in Bayesian statistics, econometrics, and Markov chain Monte Carlo ...

'82, Harry C. Hartkopf Professor of Econometrics and Statistics, Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis * S. P. Kothari '82,

awardee, Gordon Y Billard Professor of Accounting and Finance and former Head of the Department of Economics, Finance, and Accounting at

MIT Sloan School of Management The MIT Sloan School of Management (MIT Sloan or Sloan) is the business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT Sloan offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree programs ...

Manju Puri Manju Puri is an economist who currently works as the J. B. Fuqua Professor of Finance at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. She is an editor at the ''Review of Financial Studies'' and currently the director of the American Finance A ...

'82 J. B. Fuqua Professor of Finance at the

Fuqua School of Business The Fuqua School of Business (pronounced ) is the business school of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. It enrolls more than 1,300 students in degree-seeking programs. Duke Executive Education also offers non-degree business education and ...

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist Jam ...

Ashish Nanda Ashish Nanda was Director of Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad,* Nanda joined IIMA as Director on 2 Sept 2013. Upon taking charge, Nanda described IIMA as "a hidden jewel." In addition to his administrative responsibilities, Professor N ...

'83 – former Director,

, former Robert Braucher Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School, and Senior Lecturer, Harvard Business School *

Raghu Sundaram Rangarajan K. "Raghu" Sundaram is an Indian-born American academic. He is the Dean of the New York University Stern School of Business, and the author or co-author of two books. Early life Sundaram was educated in India, where he earned a Bachelo ...

'84, Dean,

New York University Stern School of Business The New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business (commonly referred to as NYU Stern, The Stern School of Business, or simply Stern) is the business school of New York University, a private research university based in New York City. I ...

* V. Anantha Nageswaran '86, 18th

Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India ThChief Economic Adviser (CEA)is a post in Government of India and is equivalent to rank of Secretary to the Government of India. The CEA is the ex-officio cadre controlling authority of the Indian Economic Service. The CEA is head of Econom ...

* Arun Agrawal '85, Samuel Trask Dana Professor, School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan * Rajeev Kakar '87, Banker and a serial business founder and entrepreneur * Baba Shiv '88, The Sanwa Bank, Limited, Professor of Marketing at

Stanford University Graduate School of Business The Stanford Graduate School of Business (also known as Stanford GSB) is the graduate business school of Stanford University, a private research university in Stanford, California. For several years it has been the most selective business sc ...

Aseem Prakash Aseem Prakash is a professor of Political Science, the Walker Family Professor of the College of music and Sciences and the Founding Director of thUW Center for Environmental Politics He serves as the General Editor of the Cambridge University Pre ...

, Professor of Political Science and Walker Family Professor for the Arts and Sciences,

University of Washington The University of Washington (UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seatt ...

* V. G. Narayanan '90 – Thomas D. Casserly, Jr. Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School * V. Kasturi Rangan – Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing at Harvard Business School * Jagmohan Raju – Joseph J. Aresty Professor at

Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania ( ; also known as Wharton Business School, the Wharton School, Penn Wharton, and Wharton) is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private Ivy League research university in ...

Harbir Singh Harbir Singh is an American economist, currently the Co-Director, Mack Institute for Innovation Management and Mack Professor of Management at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and formerly the Edward H. Bowman Professor, from 1999 ...

– Mack Professor of Management at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania * Ajit Rangnekar –

Dean Dean may refer to: People * Dean (given name) * Dean (surname), a surname of Anglo-Saxon English origin * Dean (South Korean singer), a stage name for singer Kwon Hyuk * Dean Delannoit, a Belgian singer most known by the mononym Dean Titles * ...

Indian School of Business The Indian School of Business (ISB) is a private business school established in India in 2001. It has two parallel campuses in India, in Hyderabad (Telangana) and Mohali (Punjab). It offers certificates in various post-graduate management prog ...

Atul Tandon Atul Tandon (born 1 October 1959) is a nonprofit executive, entrepreneur, humanitarian and author. From the Daryaganj to Wall Street Tandon moved to the United States in 1992. He played a role in turning around Citi's West Coast busines ...

– academic and director of

Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad MICA, formerly Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad, is a business school and an autonomous, non-profit institute of higher education, located on the outskirts of the western Indian city of Ahmedabad. Established in 1991, MICA is the on ...

from 2001 to 2009. *

Anand Teltumbde Anand Teltumbde (born 15 July 1950) is an Indian scholar, writer, and civil rights activist who is a management professor at the Goa Institute of Management. He has written extensively about the caste system in India and has advocated for the r ...

– Senior Professor and Big Data Analytics Head in

Goa Institute of Management The Goa Institute of Management (abbreviated as GIM-Goa), is one of the top business school of India located near Sanquelim in city of North Goa district in the state of Goa. The autonomous school is governed by a board, and offers a full-tim ...

* Samir Barua FPM, Former Director,

* A. K. Shiva Kumar, development economist * Dhirajlal Keshav Desai, Indian agricultural economist, founding faculty member at IIM-A and founded the Agriculture and Cooperatives Group

Arts and social work

* Mallika Sarabhai '74,

Padma Bhushan The Padma Bhushan is the third-highest civilian award in the Republic of India, preceded by the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan and followed by the Padma Shri. Instituted on 2 January 1954, the award is given for "distinguished service ...

awardee, classical dancer; activist; director of Darpana Academy,

Ahmedabad Ahmedabad ( ; Gujarati: Amdavad ) is the most populous city in the Indian state of Gujarat. It is the administrative headquarters of the Ahmedabad district and the seat of the Gujarat High Court. Ahmedabad's population of 5,570,585 (per ...

Vijay Mahajan Vijay Mahajan is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation and the Director of the Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Contemporary Studies. Mahajan was the founder of the BASIX Social Enterprise Group which is engaged in liveliho ...

'80 – founder and CEO of the BASIX initiative * Salil Shetty '83 – Secretary-General of

Amnesty International Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom. The organization says it has more than ten million members and s ...

Gaurav Dagaonkar Gaurav Dagaonkar Indian Entrepreneur and the founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Songfest. He is also known as a popular music director, songwriter and singer. As a music director, Gaurav's first release was the movie Lanka, which rele ...

'06 – music director, vocalist and songwriter * Shakti Maira – Artist, sculptor and writer *

Nachiket Mor Nachiket Mor is an Indian banker. He is currently National Director for Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. He is known for his inventions of financial devices to deliver banking service to villages and contribution in trying to solve India's fi ...

, National Director for

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), a merging of the William H. Gates Foundation and the Gates Learning Foundation, is an American private foundation founded by Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates. Based in Seattle, Washington, it was ...

– India * Vanya Mishra-

Miss world 2012 Miss World 2012, the 62nd edition of the Miss World pageant, was held on 18 August 2012 at Dongsheng Fitness Center Stadium in Ordos, Inner Mongolia, China. 116 contestants from all over the world competed for the crown. Ivian Sarcos of Venez ...

top 7 *

Srijan Pal Singh Srijan Pal Singh is an Indian author, public speaker and social entrepreneur. He was born and raised in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. Singh is an electrical engineer from the Institute of Engineering & Technology, Lucknow and a management graduate f ...

'09 - Author, public speaker and social entrepreneur *

Mukul Chadda Mukul is an Indian/South-Asian given name, which means " blossoming". Mukul may refer to: Given name *Mukul Sharma, Sydney based hotelier, hospitality professional * Mukul Chadda, Indian actor * Mukul Chowdhury, Bangladeshi lyricist and musical a ...

, Indian actor

Business

Kiran Karnik Kiran Karnik is a prominent Indian administrator chiefly known for his work in the broadcasting and outsourcing industries. Presently he is also serving as a Director in Central board of directors of Reserve Bank of India. He is also the chairma ...

'68 –

awardee, former President of

NASSCOM The National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM) is an Indian non-governmental trade association and advocacy group, focused mainly on the technology industry of India. Established in 1988, NASSCOM is a non-profit organis ...

* Vikram Talwar '70, co-founder and former CEO,

EXL Service EXL Service is a global analytics and digital solutions company serving industries including insurance, healthcare, banking and financial services, media, retail, and others. The company is headquartered in New York and has more than 37,000 pro ...

Holdings Inc. * Sarthak Behuria '73 – former Chairman of

Indian Oil Corporation Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL; d/b/a IndianOil) is a central public sector undertaking under the ownership of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Government of India. It is headquartered in New Delhi. It is a public sector un ...

; former chairman and managing director of

Bharat Petroleum Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) is an Indian central public sector undertaking under the ownership of Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Government of India. It operates three refineries in Bina, Kochi and Mumbai. BPCL is ...

* Jerry Rao '73, founder and former CEO, Mphasis Ltd. *

Chandrika Tandon Chandrika Tandon (née Krishnamurthy) is an Indian American businesswoman and Grammy-nominated artist. She is chairperson of Tandon Capital Associates, and a member of the board of directors at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and the ...

'75, first Indian-American woman to be elected partner at

McKinsey & Company McKinsey & Company is a global management consulting firm founded in 1926 by University of Chicago professor James O. McKinsey, that offers professional services to corporations, governments, and other organizations. McKinsey is the oldest and ...

Grammy Award The Grammy Awards (stylized as GRAMMY), or simply known as the Grammys, are awards presented by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognize "outstanding" achievements in the music industry. They are regarded by many as the most pr ...

nominated artist * M. S. Banga '77,

awardee, former chairman,

Hindustan Unilever Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) is a consumer goods company headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra. It is a subsidiary of Unilever, a British company. Its products include foods, beverages, cleaning agents, personal care products, water puri ...

, currently senior partner,

Clayton, Dubilier & Rice Clayton, Dubilier & Rice is an American private equity company. It is one of the oldest private equity investment firms in the world. Founded in 1978, CD&R has managed the investment of more than $30 billion in approximately 90 businesses, repre ...

* K Raghavendra Rao '79,

awardee, founder of Orchid Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals Limited *

Shikha Sharma Shikha Sharma (born 19 November 1958) is an Indian economist and banker, and from 2009 to 2018 was the managing director and CEO of Axis Bank, the third largest private sector bank in India. Sharma joined Axis Bank in 2009 and focused on stren ...

'80 – former MD and CEO,

Axis Bank Axis Bank Limited, formerly known as UTI Bank (1993–2007), is an Indian banking and financial services company headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra. It sells financial services to large and mid-size companies, SMEs and retail businesses. As ...

* Ajay Singh Banga '81 – President and chief executive officer, MasterCard *

Ivan Menezes Sir Ivan Manuel Menezes (born July 1959) is an Indian-born American/British business executive. He has been the chief executive officer (CEO) of Diageo, a FTSE 100 The Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 Index, also called the FTSE 100 Index, ...

'81, CEO,

Diageo Diageo plc () is a multinational alcoholic beverage company, with its headquarters in London, England. It operates from 132 sites around the world. It was the world's largest distiller before being overtaken by Kweichow Moutai of China in 201 ...

* Piyush Gupta '83 – chief executive officer,

DBS Bank DBS Bank Limited, often known as DBS, is a Singaporean multinational banking and financial services corporation headquartered at the Marina Bay Financial Centre in the Marina Bay district of Singapore. The bank was previously known as The Dev ...

* Shrikant Joshi '83 – chief executive officer and managing director of L&T Realty * Suresh Vaswani '85 – President, Dell Services *

Falguni Nayar Falguni Sanjay Nayar (born 19 February 1963) is an Indian billionaire businesswoman, who is the founder and CEO of the beauty and lifestyle retail company Nykaa, formally known as FSN E-Commerce Ventures which is an acronym of her own name. Nayar ...

'85 – Founder and CEO,

Nykaa Nykaa is an Indian e-commerce company, founded by Falguni Nayar in 2012 and headquartered in Mumbai. It sells beauty, wellness and fashion products across websites, mobile apps and 100+ offline stores. In 2020, it became the first Indian unic ...

Amitabh Chaudhry Amitabh Chaudhry is an Indian banker, and the managing director (MD) and chief executive officer (CEO) of Axis Bank, the third largest private sector bank in India. He joined Axis in January 2019, after heading HDFC Life Insurance for nine years. ...

'87, MD and CEO,

* Archana Garodia Gupta '88, Author and Owner, Touchstone Gems and Jewellry *

Sanjeev Bikhchandani Sanjeev Bikhchandani is an Indian businessman, who is the founder and executive vice chairman of Info Edge which owns Naukri.com, a job portal, as well as the co-founder of Ashoka University. He was given the Padma Shri Award, the fourth High ...

'89 –

awardee, founder and Executive vice-chairman, Infoedge and

Naukri.com Naukri.com is an Indian employment website operating in India and Middle East. It was founded in March 1997 by Indian businessman Sanjeev Bikhchandani. Naukri.com is the largest employment website in India. History and milestones Naukri.com ...

Rashesh Shah Rashesh Shah (born 30 September 1963) is an Indian businessman and the chairman and CEO of the Edelweiss Group, one of India's leading diversified financial services conglomerates. He is also the co-founder of Edelweiss Financial Services Limi ...

'89, co-founder and CEO of Edelweiss Group *

Deep Kalra Deep Kalra is an Indian businessman who is the Founder & Chairman of MakeMyTrip, an Indian online travel company. He was born in Hyderabad and grew up in Delhi and Ahmedabad. Education and career He obtained his bachelor's degree in Economics f ...

'92, Founder, Chairman and Group CEO, MakeMyTrip * Sanjeev Aggarwal '95, founder and CEO, Amplus Energy Solutions *

Rajesh Gopinathan Rajesh Gopinathan (born 1971) is the CEO and Managing Director of Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a global IT services, consulting and business solutions organization. He was elevated to the role of Chief Executive in February 2017 after servin ...

'96 – CEO and MD,

Tata Consultancy Services Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is an Indian multinational information technology (IT) services and consulting company with its headquarters in Mumbai. It is a part of the Tata Group and operates in 150 locations across 46 countries. In July ...

Ashok Vemuri Ashok Vemuri (born April 22, 1968) is an Indian-American business executive, and Board of Director for Financial Policy and Public Responsibilities at Kroger. Vemuri was the former Chief Executive Officer of IGATE and Conduent. Early life and ed ...

– CEO of

Conduent Conduent Inc. is an American business services provider company headquartered in Florham Park, New Jersey. It was formed in 2017 as a divestiture from Xerox. The company offers digital platforms for businesses and governments. , it had over ...

* Sarathbabu Elumalai – Founder and CEO of FoodKing *

Nirmal Jain Nirmal Jain (born 1967) is an Indian billionaire businessman. He is the founder and chairman of India Infoline (IIFL) Group, a financial conglomerates. IIFL and its group companies are backed by Canadian investor Prem Watsa, private equity firm ...

, founder and chairman of

India Infoline IIFL Finance Limited (formerly IIFL Holdings Limited) d/b/a IIFL and India Infoline Finance Limited, is an Indian diversified financial services company headquartered in Mumbai. The organisation was founded by Nirmal Jain. IIFL and its group c ...

(IIFL) * K. V. Kamath,

awardee, former MD & CEO,

ICICI Bank ICICI Bank Limited is an Indian Private bank. It is headquartered at Mumbai. It offers a wide range of banking products and financial services for corporate and retail customers through a variety of delivery channels and specialized subsidiar ...

, former chairman,

Infosys Infosys Limited is an Indian multinational information technology company that provides business consulting, information technology and outsourcing services. The company was founded in Pune and is headquartered in Bangalore. Infosys is ...

, and 1st President of

New Development Bank The New Development Bank (NDB), formerly referred to as the BRICS Development Bank, is a multilateral development bank established by the BRICS states ( Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa). According to the Agreement on the ND ...

(BRICS) * Phaneesh Murthy – Former CEO of iGATE Corporation *

Mahendra Mehta Mahendra Singh Mehta (born 9 December 1955) is an Indian businessman. He is the chief executive of Vedanta Resources plc, a British multinational diversified metals and mining company. Early life Mahendra Mehta holds a BE degree in mechanical e ...

, CEO,

Reliance Infrastructure Reliance Infrastructure Limited (R-Infra), formerly Reliance Energy Limited (REL) and Bombay Suburban Electric Supply (BSES), is an Indian private sector enterprise involved in power generation, infrastructure, construction and defence. It is p ...

and former group CEO,

Vedanta Resources Vedanta Resources Limited is an Indian diversified mining company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the largest mining and non-ferrous metals company in India and has mining operations in Australia and Zambia and oil and gas oper ...

Ajit Ranade Ajit Ranade is an economist, political analyst and reporter based out of Mumbai, India. Currently he is Vice Chancellor of Gokhale Institute Of Politics & Economics Pune. Education He is a PhD in economics from Brown University. He is a B.Tech. ...

, President and chief economist,

Aditya Birla Group Aditya Birla Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate, headquartered in Mumbai. It operates in 100 countries with more than 1,40,000 employees directly and indirectly. The group was founded by Seth Shiv Narayan Birla in 1857. The group h ...

* R. Srinivasan, founder and former MD, Redington India *Vijay K. Rekhi - Former President and MD,

United Spirits Limited United Spirits Limited, abbreviated to USL, is an Indian alcoholic beverages company, and the world's second-largest spirits company by volume. It is a subsidiary of Diageo, and headquartered at UB Tower in Bangalore, Karnataka. USL exports it ...

*Anushka Chauhan - President and MD, Delta Airlines

Government and politics

Kirit Raval Kirit Raval (died April 26, 2005) was an Indian attorney who served as the Solicitor General of India from 2002 until 2004. Raval served as an Additional Solicitor General of India from 1998 to 2002, when he succeeded Harish Salve as the Solicitor ...

'73 – former Solicitor General of India *

Prem Das Rai Prem Das Rai (born 31 July 1954) is an Indian politician from the Sikkim Democratic Front (SDF) party. Rai was a Member of Parliament ( Lok Sabha) from the Sikkim constituency of Sikkim, India, first elected in 2009 election and re-elected ...

'78 – Member of

Parliament In modern politics, and history, a parliament is a legislative body of government. Generally, a modern parliament has three functions: representing the electorate, making laws, and overseeing the government via hearings and inquiries. Th ...

, Sikkim constituency,

15th Lok Sabha Members of the 15th Lok Sabha were elected during the 2009 general election in India. It was dissolved on 18 May 2014 by President Pranab Mukherjee. Indian National Congress-led United Progressive Alliance won 44 more seats than the previou ...

Arvind Subramanian Arvind Subramanian is an Indian economist and the former Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India, having served from 16 October 2014 to 20 June 2018. Subramanian is currently a Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for Internationa ...

'81 – 16th

Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India ThChief Economic Adviser (CEA)is a post in Government of India and is equivalent to rank of Secretary to the Government of India. The CEA is the ex-officio cadre controlling authority of the Indian Economic Service. The CEA is head of Econ ...

Jawed Ashraf The Indian Ambassador to France is the chief diplomatic representative of India to France, housed in the Embassy of India, Paris. The current ambassador is Jawed Ashraf. who succeeded Vinay Mohan Kwatra in August, 2020 following Kwatra's appoin ...

'86, Ambassador of India to France, former High Commissioner of India to Singapore *

Raghuram Rajan Raghuram Govind Rajan (born 3 February 1963) is an Indian economist and the Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Quote: "I am an Indian citizen. I have always ...

'87 – former

Governor A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political region, ranking under the head of state and in some cases, such as governors-general, as the head of state's official representative. Depending on the type of political ...

of the

Reserve Bank of India The Reserve Bank of India, chiefly known as RBI, is India's central bank and regulatory body responsible for regulation of the Indian banking system. It is under the ownership of Ministry of Finance, Government of India. It is responsible f ...

; former chief economic advisor of the Government of India and former chief economist at the

International Monetary Fund The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is a major financial agency of the United Nations, and an international financial institution, headquartered in Washington, D.C., consisting of 190 countries. Its stated mission is "working to foster glo ...

. Currently Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at

University of Chicago Booth School of Business The University of Chicago Booth School of Business (Chicago Booth or Booth) is the graduate business school of the University of Chicago. Founded in 1898, Chicago Booth is the second-oldest business school in the U.S. and is associated with 10 N ...

* Saurabh Garg '88, CEO, Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI), IAS Officer * Prodyut Bora '99, first chief of IT Cell and

National Executive Committee National Executive Committee is the name of a leadership body in several organizations, mostly political parties: * National Executive Committee of the African National Congress, in South Africa * Australian Labor Party National Executive * Nationa ...

member of the

Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; ; ) is a political party in India, and one of the two major List of political parties in India, Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. Since 2014, it has been the List of ruling p ...

* Ramachandran Govindarasu '15, Tamil Nadu politician affiliated with

AIADMK The All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (; AIADMK) is an Indian regional political party with great influence in the state of Tamil Nadu and the union territory of Puducherry. It is a Dravidian party founded by the former chief m ...

Amit Khare Amit Khare (born 1961) is an Indian Administrative Service officer (1985 batch) from Bihar/ Jharkhand cadre and is currently serving as the advisor to prime minister Narendra Modi. He is noted for his role in bringing to light the Fodder scam ...

– Additional Chief Secretary of Jharkhand. *

, Former Adviser to Dr

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Avul Pakir Jainulabdeen Abdul Kalam (; 15 October 193127 July 2015) was an Indian aerospace scientist and statesman who served as the 11th President of India from 2002 to 2007. He was born and raised in Rameswaram, Tamil Nadu and studied phy ...

* Alok Ranjan, Former Chief Secretary of

Uttar Pradesh Uttar Pradesh (; , 'Northern Province') is a state in northern India. With over 200 million inhabitants, it is the most populated state in India as well as the most populous country subdivision in the world. It was established in 195 ...

. * Jawed Usmani – Chief Information Commissioner of

. *

Syed Zafar Islam Syed Zafar Islam is a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh which is inside India Union. He is the national spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Islam is a former investment banker and the former Managing director ...

, Investment Banker and Member of Parliament in the

Rajya Sabha The Rajya Sabha, constitutionally the Council of States, is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of India. , it has a maximum membership of 245, of which 233 are elected by the legislatures of the states and union territories using si ...

, former Director at

Deutsche Bank Deutsche Bank AG (), sometimes referred to simply as Deutsche, is a German multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany, and dual-listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and the New York St ...

and Spokesperson of

* R. R. Bhatnagar, former

Director General A director general or director-general (plural: ''directors general'', ''directors-general'', ''director generals'' or ''director-generals'' ) or general director is a senior executive officer, often the chief executive officer, within a government ...

of the Central Reserve Police Force, retired IPS officer

Sports

Harsha Bhogle Harsha Bhogle (born 19 July 1961) is an Indian cricket commentator and journalist. He’s widely known as a "voice of cricket". Bhogle has cemented his reputation as being a personality in the global cricket broadcasting industry. Early lif ...

'85 –

cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by st ...

commentator and journalist

Science

* Suchitra Sebastian '97, condensed matter physicist at

Cavendish Laboratory The Cavendish Laboratory is the Department of Physics at the University of Cambridge, and is part of the School of Physical Sciences. The laboratory was opened in 1874 on the New Museums Site as a laboratory for experimental physics and is named ...

University of Cambridge , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

Literature and journalism

* Rohini Chowdhury '86, children's writer and literary translator *

Rashmi Bansal Rashmi Bansal is an Indian non-fiction writer and entrepreneur. As of 2019, she is the author of nine books on entrepreneurship. Her first book, '' Stay Hungry Stay Foolish'', traced the progress of 25 MBA entrepreneurs and sold over 500,000 cop ...

'93, author and entrepreneur *

Chetan Bhagat Chetan Bhagat (born 22 April 1974) is an Indian author, columnist and YouTuber. He was included in Time magazine's list of World's 100 Most Influential People in 2010. Five of his novels have been adapted into films. Family, education, a ...

'97, author, columnist and speaker *

Sidin Vadukut Sidin is a village development committee in Panchthar District in the Mechi Zone of eastern Nepal. At the time of the 1991 Nepal census The 1991 Nepal census was a widespread national census conducted by the Nepal Central Bureau of Statistics ...

'05, author and former Managing Editor,

Mint MiNT is Now TOS (MiNT) is a free software alternative operating system kernel for the Atari ST system and its successors. It is a multi-tasking alternative to TOS and MagiC. Together with the free system components fVDI device drivers, XaAE ...

Rahul Roushan Rahul Roushan (born 29 January 1980) is an Indian blogger and businessman. Roushan founded ''Faking News'', a News satire, satirical news website, and is the Chief executive officer, CEO of OpIndia, a right-wing news portal that has published fa ...

'07, founder of

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and Chief Strategy Officer of Swarajya magazine *

, former adviser to

and Founder of Dr. Kalam Centre *

Samit Basu Samit Basu (born 14 December 1979) is an Indian novelist and filmmaker whose body of work includes science fiction, fantasy and superhero novels, children's books, graphic novels, short stories, and a Netflix film. His most recently published ...

, novelist, graphic novelist and screenwriter.

Faculty

* I. G. Patel, former Director and 14th Governor of the

* C. Rangarajan, former Member of Parliament and 19th Governor of the

* Y. Venugopal Reddy, 21st Governor of the

, famous management thinker, exponent of

Core competency A core competency is a concept in management theory introduced by C. K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel.Prahalad, C.K. and Hamel, G. (1990)The core competence of the corporation", Harvard Business Review (v. 68, no. 3) pp. 79–91. It can be defined ...

and Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid *

Ravi J. Matthai Ravi John Matthai (1927–1984) was an educationist and a professor and the first full-time Director of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He is also the co-founder, along with Dr. K. Varghese, of Institute of Rural Management, Anand. ...

, first full-time Director, management educationist noted for establishing Institute of Rural Management Anand * Bakul Harshadrai Dholakia,

awardee, Director (2002–2007) * Samuel Paul,

awardee, IIMA's second director (1972–78) * Vijay Govindarajan, a The New York Times Best Seller list, New York Times & The Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal best-selling author, Thinkers50 Hall of Fame 2019 & Coxe Distinguished Professor, Tuck School of Business * Anil Kumar Gupta was a professor who was awarded

for his contributions to management education. * Pankaj Chandra, former Director,

and current Vice Chancellor, Ahmedabad University * Shekhar Chaudhuri, former Director,

* Abhishek Mishra was a faculty member for six years, before leaving to become a member of Samajwadi Party and an elected MLA of

. * Dheeraj Sharma (professor), Dheeraj Sharma, director, Indian Institute of Management Rohtak * Jahar Saha, Institute Director 1998–2002 * Rajnish Rai, former DGP, Indian Police; served as Assistant Professor *

, best known for his research in the areas of corporate finance, capital markets and international finance. *

, Institute Director from 2013 to 2017 * T. V. Rao, Indian Human Resources Development professional * Rakesh Basant, JSW Chair Professor of Innovation and Public Policy * N. Ravichandran (professor), 4th full-time director of Indian Institute of Management Indore, The Indian Institute of Management Indore * Samir Barua, 10th Institute Director * Labdhi Bhandari, State Trading Corporation of India Professor of Marketing * Kamla Chowdhry, key founding member of the institute and first faculty member * Frank Land, information systems researcher and was the first United Kingdom Professor of Information Systems * Akhileshwar Pathak, professor of Corporate law, business law * Samuel Paul, second director of the institute * Jerry Rao, founder and former CEO of the software company MphasiS * Ashok Som * Dwijendra Tripathi, professor of business history for over 25 years. He is considered the "Father of Business History" in India. * Harsh Mander, retired IAS officer and former member, National Advisory Council (India), Govt. of India

Administration

* N. R. Narayana Murthy, Indian IT industrialist and the co-founder of

, got his first job as chief systems programmer at IIM Ahmedabad.

References

External links

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