G Raghuram

Raghuram is Principal Academic Advisor and Distinguished Visiting Faculty at the National Rail and Transportation Institute promoted by the Ministry of Railways. He has been Director, IIM Bangalore, from February 2017 to July 2020. Earlier, he was Professor and Chairperson of the Public Systems Group at IIMA. He has been Dean (Faculty), IIMA, Vice-Chancellor of the Indian Maritime University and Indian Railways Chair Professor.

He specializes in infrastructure and transport systems, and logistics and supply chain management. He conducts research on the railway, port, shipping, aviation and road sectors. He has published over 35 refereed papers in journals and written over 160 case studies. He has published six co-authored books.

He is on the Board of Directors of three companies in the fields of infrastructure and logistics. Overall, he has been on the Board of 13 companies. He is on the Board of three educational institutions, one NGO and on the Advisory Board of a few other educational institutions.

He has teaching experience at universities in India, USA, Canada, Yugoslavia, Singapore, Tanzania, UAE and Japan.

He was a member of the Global Future Council on Mobility of the World Economic Forum.

He was awarded :

• ‘Life-time Achievement Award’ for Transport Excellence, by Mahindra and Mahindra, supported by Ministry of Road Transport and Highways in 2018.
• ‘MC Puri Memorial Award’ for contribution to Operational Research in India in 2016.
• ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ for contribution to Logistics and Infrastructure by EXIM News in 2014.
• ‘Academician of the Year’ by the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in 2012. He is a Fellow of the Operational Research Society of India, and Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport.

He has offered consultancy services to over 100 organizations including multilateral agencies. He has been part of various government policy making and advisory committees for the Ministry of Civil Aviation, Ministry of Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution, Ministry of Railways, Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, Ministry of Shipping, Cabinet Secretariat, Comptroller and Auditor General, the Planning Commission and various State Governments.

Raghuram has a BTech from IIT, Madras; a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM, Ahmedabad; and a PhD from Northwestern University, USA.

Companies

• Principal Academic Advisor National Rail & Transportation Institute (NRTI) (2020)
• Director and Professor Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (2017 — 2020)
• Professor Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (1985 — 2019)
• Vice Chancellor Indian Maritime University, Chennai (2012 — 2013)
• Committee Member, Co Researcher Planning Commission, Government of India (co-opted on honorary basis) (2005 — 2012)
• Assistant Professor Tulane University - A.B. Freeman School of Business (1983 — 1985)
• Research Associate Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (1978 — 1979)

Publications

Journals

• “Framework for Structuring Public Private Partnerships in Railways,” Case Studies on Transport Policy, Elsevier, 2014, and Proceedings of the Conference on Transportation Planning and Implementation Methodologies for Developing Countries (TPMDC), Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, December 2012 (with R Gangwar)
• “Akshaya Patra, Gandhinagar: Supply Chain Challenges,” Vikalpa, Vol 38, No 4, October - December, Ahmedabad, 2013, (with S Mitra and A Ghosh)

Books

• Trucking Business Management: Cases and Concepts, McGraw Hill Education (India) Pvt Ltd, Noida, 2016 (with D Roy, R Jain, S Tripathi and K Sharda)
• Agribusiness Supply Chain Management, CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group, Boca Raton (USA), 2014 (with N Chandrasekaran)
• Supply Chain Management for Competitive Advantage: Concepts and Cases, Tata McGraw-Hill Education (India) Pvt Ltd, Noida, 2009, (with N Rangaraj and MM Srinivasan)
• Logistics and Supply Chain Management: Cases and Concepts, Macmillan India Ltd, New Delhi, 2000, (with N Rangaraj)
• Infrastructure Development and Financing: Public Private Partnership, Macmillan India Ltd, New Delhi, 1999, (lead edited with R Jain, S Morris, P Pangotra and S Sinha)
• Shipping Management: Cases and Concepts, Macmillan India Ltd, New Delhi, 1998, (lead edited with VN Asopa, D Bhatnagar, MR Dixit, KV Ramani, VV Rao and S Sinha)

Papers/Cases as Chapters in Books/Conference Proceedings

• “Effect of Legal Issues in Infrastructure Development: The Case of Container Terminal Bids in Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust,” in Transportation Research Procedia, Elsevier, Forthcoming 2017, (with PD Udayakumar & R Prajapati)
• “Implications of Vertical Unbundling on Indian Railways: Lessons from German Railway Reform,” in Transportation Research Procedia, Elsevier, Forthcoming 2017, (with R Gangwar)
• “Effect of Tariff Regulation in Major Port Container Terminals: The Case of Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust in Breaking New Ground: Dispatches on Law & Economics from India,” Eastern Book Company, 2016, (with PD Udayakumar)

Chapters in Self Edited Publications

• “An Overview of the Trucking Sector in India: Significance and Structure,” in Roy D, Raghuram G, Jain R, Tripathi S, Sharda K (Eds), Trucking Business Management: Cases and Concepts, McGraw Hill Education (India) Pvt Ltd, Noida, 2016
• “Decision Areas and Positioning of Cases,” in Raghuram G and Rangaraj N (Eds), Logistics and Supply Chain Management: Cases and Concepts, Macmillan India Ltd, New Delhi, 2000, (with N Rangaraj)
• “Logistics and Supply Chain Management - Leveraging Mathematical and Analytical Models,” in Raghuram G and Rangaraj N (Eds), Logistics and Supply Chain Management: Cases and Concepts, Macmillan India Ltd, New Delhi, 2000, (with N Rangaraj)

Case Studies

• GMR KUAEL: The Longest Road PPP (with PD Udayakumar): Conflict between NHAI and GMR – November 2016
• Rotary Club of Madras: Open Defecation Free Communities Project (with A Jalote Parmer): Process of Making a Community 100% Open Defecation Free – February 2016
• Shreeji Transport Services Private Limited (with R Jain): MIS Design for Operational Decisions – December 2015
• Mumbai Metro: Fare Fixation (with Abhinav Gupta, Arushie Mangla, Mayank Tibrewala, Nishant Naveen and Udit Kejriwal): Approach to fare fixation in a metro PPP in the context of legislative framework changes - November 2015
• Karaikal Port Private Limited (with S Nambissan, S Ramakrishnan, S Yegneswaran): Strategy for Private Port Development – August 2015

Unpublished Monographs and Working Papers

• “Dedicated High Speed Rail Network in India: Issues in Development,” Working Paper No 2016-03-58, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, March 2016 (with PD Udayakumar)
• “Right to Fair Compensation and Transparency in Land Acquisition, Rehabilitation and Resettlement Ordinance 2014: A Process Perspective,” Working Paper No 2015-07-03, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, July 2015 (with S Sunny)
• “Goods and Services Tax: The Introduction Process,” Working Paper No 2015-03-01, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, March 2015 (with KS Deepa)

Newspaper and Magazine Articles

• “A Rail Safety Mantra,” India Today, December 5, 2016
• “Dedicated High Speed Rail Network in India: Issues in Development,” Technomic Review (IIM Ahmedabad), TR-2016-08-0008, August 2016 (with PD Udayakumar) (Excerpted from a working paper with the same title)
• “Infrastructure Provisioning: Strategic with Implementation Challenges,” Yojana, March 2016

Papers Selected and Presented at Conferences/Workshops

• “Dedicated High Speed Rail Network in India: A Systems Perspective in Development,” ORSI International Conference, BIMTECH, Greater Noida, December 12-14, 2016
• “Effect of Legal Issues in Infrastructure Development: The Case of Container Terminal Bids in Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust,” World Conference on Transport Research, Shanghai, July 10-15, 2016
• “Competition and Tariff Regulations of Indian Container Terminals,” World Conference on Transport Research, Shanghai, July 10-15, 2016

Invited/Special Seminars

• “Innovations in Road Safety in Approach, Processes, Measures and Perspective,” Panel Chair, 6th Edition of Mahindra Transport Excellence Awards Program, New Delhi, February 3, 2017.
• “Logistics and Infrastructure: Policy Aspects for Infrastructure Development,” Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors Summit, Gandhinagar, January 12, 2017.
• “Making Agri-Food Supply Chains Sustainable: Key Issues and Way Forward,” IIM Bangalore, December 16, 2016.
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Consulting

Professor Raghuram has consulted for 66 organizations in India and abroad, both in the public and private sector. The studies are related to (i) infrastructure and transportation (ii) supply chain and logistics management and (iii) management education and institution building. Most of the studies have resulted in research based reports with recommendations to the client. Many of the studies have been written as disguised cases and/or papers, some of which have been published.

Education

• PhD, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
• BTech, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India