IIM Amritsar ( Indian Institute of Management Amritsar) has announced a leadership transition. Prof Dr. Samir Kumar Srivastava of IIM Lucknow has assumed the role of Director, succeeding Prof Dr. Nagarajan Ramamoorthy, whose tenure has concluded.
Prof Ramamoorthy had been the director of IIM Amritsar since its inception in 2015. From the first batch of 44 students in 2015, the institute has grown to nearly 725 students in various programmes currently. His tenure saw the successful expansion of the institute, the operationalisation of the new campus, the enhancement of academic programmes and strengthening of industry partnerships.
Prof. Samir K Srivastava is a Professor (HAG) at IIML. He has over three decades of experience in research, teaching, academic administration, consulting and industry. He has done B. Tech. from IT-BHU (now IIT BHU) and Fellow of IIM Lucknow. His work has about sixteen thousand citations in Google Scholar with a g-Index of 125.
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Taking over, Prof Srivastava brings a distinguished academic and administrative background, having been associated with IIM-Lucknow. With extensive experience in academia, research, and institutional leadership, Prof Srivastava has experience in industry engagement, and research excellence. He is an undergraduate in electrical engineering from Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University (now IIT-BHU) and an MBA in Finance. He received his doctorate from IIM-Lucknow in 2004.
About IIM Amritsar: The Indian Institute of Management Amritsar (IIM Amritsar), the 15th IIM established under the aegis of the Ministry of Education (formerly the Ministry of Human Resource Development), was founded with the support of the Government of Punjab. IIM Amritsar ranks #47 under the category ‘Management’
Programs offered:
- Master of Business Administration (MBA)
- MBA in Business Analytics (MBA BA)
- MBA in Human Resources (MBA HRM)
- PhD
- Executive MBA program (Non-residential Hybrid mode for working executives and entrepreneurs
- Master of Science in Data Science and Management (jointly with IIT Ropar)
- Integrated Program in Management (IPM)
