caption birth_place nationality fields workplaces name residence article_title citizenship
shekhar chaudhuri india india strategic management , technology management indian institute of management calcutta shekhar chaudhuri kolkata , west bengal , india shekhar chaudhuri
 india
shekhar chaudhuri

shekhar chaudhuri is an indian academic and management professor .
he is a former director of indian institute of management calcutta .
chaudhuri graduated from iit kharagpur in 1972 with a b.tech .
-lrb- hons -rrb- 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 -lrb- equivalent to ph.d. -rrb- 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 -- cloth department and manager -- 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 .
