Debashis Chatterjee

Debashis Chatterjee is an Indian academic, author, columnist and management professor, who is currently serving his second term (starting 2018) as the Director of Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIM-K). Chatterjee first served as the Director of IIM-K from 2009 to 2014. IIM-K was the first institute to appoint its own director autonomously after the President Ram Nath Kovind gave assent to the Indian Institutes of Management Act, 2017, on 31 December 2017. The position had been vacant during the period 2014–2018. Chatterjee has over two decades of experience in teaching. He taught leadership courses at various schools including Harvard University, Saïd Business School of the University of Oxford, IIM Calcutta, IIM Lucknow, and IIM Kozhikode. He served as Dean (International Relations) at IIM Lucknow. He also served as the Dean for the Leadership Centre, S P Jain School of Global_Management, Singapore. He served as the Director General of International Management Institute of the three campuses at New Delhi, Kolkata and Bhubaneswar.

Education

• Harvard University - Post Doctoral Fulbright Fellow, Organizational Leadership 2000 - 2001
• Jawaharlal Nehru University - Master of Arts (M.A.) 1985 - 1987
• JNU - Masters Degree
• Savitribai Phule Pune University - PhD, Management

Recent Consulting / Other Assignments

• Ford Motor Company, Leadership Consultancy at Edison Assembly Plant, New Jersey
• British Petroleum (BP), Senior Leadership Workshop at Baku, Azerbaijan
• Peekay Steel Ltd., Chatterjee, D., Dhal, M. & Pati, S.P.(2014). Developing HR System for Peekay Steel Ltd. Unpublished Raw Manuscripts, IIM Kozhikode.
• MIL Controls Ltd., Chatterjee, D., Dhal, M. & Krishnan, T.N.(2011). HR Diagnostic Study of Unpublished Manuscripts, IIM Kozhikode.

Academic Positions

• Director & Distinguished Professor on Leadership & Organisational Behaviour, Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Kozhikode for a second term (June 2018 onwards).
• Mentor-Director, IIM Amritsar (June 2018 onwards).
• Director, IIM Kozhikode (April 2009- September 2014), fifth IIM of India established in1996.
• Dean, Singapore International Campus (2007-2009), S.P. Jain School of Global Management with campuses in Sydney, Mumbai, Singapore and Dubai.
• Promoted to HAG (Higher Academic Grade), Senior Professor at IIM, Lucknow w.e.f. 2016.
• Professor and Dean International Relations, IIM Lucknow (May 2003-2016).
• Associate Professor, IIM Lucknow (1999-2003)
• Assistant Professor, IIM Lucknow (1996-1999)
• ACC Research Fellow and Co-Convener, Management Centre for Human Values, IIM Kolkata (1993-96)
• Served as the Independent Director in Goa Shipyard Ltd., Henkel India, Aegies India (2010-2014)
• Head, Centre for Leadership and Human Values, IIM, Lucknow (2002-2007)
• Chairman, Placement, IIM Lucknow (1998-2000)
• Convener and Director-in-charge, Yale University-India Program on Higher Education for VCs (2012)