The government has appointed heads of 10 Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs), including the first woman to head one of the 20 premier B-schools in the country.
Prof Neelu Rohmetra of Jammu University is the first woman to be appointed director of an IIM at Sirmaur.
She specialises in HRD and cross-culture management.
Currently, she heads the university’s International Centre for Cross-Cultural Research and Human Resource Management.
The IIMs that got new directors are in Bodhgaya (Bihar), Sirmaur (Himachal Pradesh), Visakhapatnam (Andhra Pradesh), Trichy (Tamil Nadu), Nagpur (Maharashtra), Sambalpur (Odisha), Raipur (Chhattisgarh), Rohtak (Haryana), Ranchi (Jharkhand) and Bangalore.
Some of these posts had been vacant for at least a year. Of the 10 appointees, three are teaching at IIM-Lucknow.
As reported on November 25, 2016, IIM-Ahmedabad’s Prof G. Raghuram has been given the top job at IIM-Bangalore.
Raghuram, a teacher at IIM-Ahmedabad for nearly three decades, is chairperson of the Public Systems Group at the premier B-School. He specialises in infrastructure and transport systems, and logistics and supply chain management.
Prof Neelu Rohmetra of Jammu University is the first woman to be appointed director of an IIM.
Bharat Bhaskar, professor of information technology systems at IIM-Lucknow, will be the head of IIM-Raipur. He was the interim director of IIM-Lucknow in 2015.
