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IIMA Ahmedabad New Director: Professor Bhaskar is currently a Professor in the Department of Information Technology and Systems at IIM Lucknow. Now he will take charge of IIM Ahmedabad.
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IIM-A New Director: Professor Bharat Bhaskar has been appointed as the new director of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A). Professor Bhaskar is currently a Professor in the Department of Information Technology and Systems at IIM Lucknow. Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad informed that Professor Bharat Bhaskar has been appointed as the next Director of the Institute.
IIMA Board of Governors Chairman Pankaj R Patel said that he will assume his office on March 1, 2023. The appointment of Professor Bharat Bhaskar will be effective for the next five years. Patel also informed that the Board of Governors has appointed Professor Arindam Banerjee as Director-in-Charge in the interim for a period from February 1 to February 28, 2023.
Graduated from IIT Roorkee Ph.D. from the US
Professor Bhaskar graduated from IIT Roorkee and then completed his MS and Ph.D. from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA. His areas of interest include IT Strategy, Digital Transformation, E-Commerce, Business Process Re-engineering, Business Analytics, Optimization and Data Analytics, etc.
He was also the director of IIM, Raipur.
Professor Bhaskar has been leading and guiding the field of Information Technology Management in India and globally with nearly three decades of experience in enterprise, research, teaching, and consultancy. Recently, he completed a five-year term as the director of IIM Raipur from March 2017 to March 2022. Prior to this, he has been associated with IIM Lucknow for over two decades and has held various assignments including being the Acting Director.
Services provided in foreign institutions as well
Professor Bharat Bhaskar ESSEC Business School, Paris; Has been Visiting Professor at the University of Texas, USA. He is Professor at Chung-Ang University, Seoul; He has also been a Research Professor at the University of California, USA, and Faculty at College Park University, Maryland. Apart from these, Professor Bhaskar has the Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA; He also has experience working in senior positions in various organizations including Sybase Inc., and MDL Information Systems.
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