Confirming this development with MBAUniverse.com, officials at IIM K Director said, “Prof Chatterjee appointed as a director of IIM K on April 17, 2009. He accepts the role with humility and knows there are challenges ahead. He represents the aspiration of young India that is seeking to express its immense potential on the world stage.”
Prof Chatterjee took over the charge from Dr Krishna Kumar. Prior to his joining IIM K, Prof Chatterjee was a faculty at IIM Lucknow in the area of organization behavior, leadership development and human resource management.
Prof Chatterjee tenure as the new Director of IIM K is for five years.
Prof Chatterjee has had a distinguished academic career. Prof Chatterjee has taught for more than a decade in IIM Lucknow and IIM Kolkata. His professional career has been a blend of international professional and academic experience in India, USA, Canada, Europe, Australia, South East Asia and South Africa. He was a Fulbright Fellow at Harvard University and MIT. He was a Visiting Professor at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. He also functioned as Dean, Leadership Centre, S.P. Jain Centre of Management, Singapore.
His areas of interest include Transformational Leadership, Personal Growth, Learning Organization, Self-Mastery and Asia Culture and Management. He has also authored a number of books on personal leadership.
Prof Chatterjee was also described as one of the "thought leaders" of the world by Prof. John Kotler of the Harvard Business School for his contribution to the theory and practice of leadership.
His vast administrative experience includes his functioning as Chairman, Placement, IIM Lucknow; Dean, Singapore International Campus, SPJCM; Head, Center for Leadership and Human Values, IIM Lucknow; and a Co-Convenor, Management Center for Human Values, IIM Kolkata.
