Pankaj Chandra, PhD

Professor Pankaj Chandra is the Vice Chancellor of Ahmedabad University which has emerged as India’s leading liberal education driven comprehensive research university.  He was the Director of the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (2007-2013) and Professor of Operations & Technology Management at IIM Ahmedabad. He holds a BTech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University and a PhD from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He has been a full-time faculty at McGill University and IIM Ahmedabad and a visiting professor at the University of Geneva, The Wharton School, International University of Japan, Cornell University, and Renmin University, Beijing. He was the first Associate Dean (Academic) at ISB, Hyderabad.

Professor Chandra was a member of the Government of India (GOI) Committee on Rejuvenation of Higher Education (Yashpal Committee) that relooked at the Indian Higher Education system as well as the Committee on the Autonomy of Central Institutions.  He has served on many industry committees of GOI.  He has been a member of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI).

Professor Chandra’s research and teaching interests include Manufacturing Management, Supply Chain Coordination, Innovation in hi-tech industries, and higher education policy. His recent book titled ‘Building Universities that Matter’ studies issues of Governance, Change & Institution Building in Indian Universities.  He serves on boards of several firms and institutions.