IMI Delhi - Director & Faculty

Dr Suresh Ramanathan is the Chief Executive Officer of International Management Institute (IMI), with leadership responsibility across its campuses in New Delhi, Kolkata, and Bhubaneswar. A leading global figure in marketing academia and an expert on customer emotions and motivations, he received his PhD in Marketing from the Stern School of Business at New York University in 2002, and holds a B.Tech from IIT Delhi and an MBA from IIM Calcutta. Before returning to India, Dr Ramanathan spent nine years on the faculty at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and eight years as an endowed professor at the Mays Business School, Texas A&M University. Returning to India, Dr Ramanathan served as Dean and Principal of the Great Lakes Institute of Management, Chennai, holding the Bala V. Balachandran Distinguished Professorship. His research has appeared in FT50 journals, including the Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing Research, and Journal of Consumer Psychology, and he was recognised as a Marketing Science Institute Young Scholar in 2007.

The IMI Delhi director is Dr Jones Mathew, a marketing professor with 18 years of corporate experience and 16 years of teaching experience. He holds a Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), New Delhi. Before joining IMI Delhi, Dr Mathew led Great Lakes Institute of Management, Gurgaon, as Principal and Head of the Institution from July 2024.

Dr Mathew worked with Indian and multinational companies, including HCL Ltd, MECON, Yonex and Reebok. His last corporate role was Vice President (Sales & Marketing) at an Indo-US joint venture of the Hero Group. His corporate work spanned sales, product and brand management, vendor development, retail operations and marketing.

Dr Mathew teaches Marketing Management, Product and Brand Management, Sales & Distribution Management and Services Marketing to postgraduate management students and working executives. He has run Executive Development Programmes and Management Development Programmes for organisations such as Hero MotoCorp, Nokia Siemens Networks, PHDCCI, IIFT, Somany Ceramics and the Women and Child Welfare Department of the Government of Delhi.
Dr Mathew has written research articles for international journals in the ABDC A and B categories. His opinion pieces have appeared in Financial Express, Forbes, Business Standard, The Economic Times and The Hindu. He has published 14 case studies with Ivey Publishing (Canada), ECCH (Europe), IMD Lausanne (Switzerland) and CII (India). He won the Marketing category of the 2016 ISB-Ivey Global Case Competition, and that 2016 case remains a bestseller at Ivey Publishing ten years on, as shared with MBAUniverse.com. In 2020, he also won the International Case Writing Competition of the John Molson School of Business, Canada.

IMI Delhi faculty members are professors, associate professors and assistant professors. Faculty for all programmes are mainly drawn from the institute itself, and adjunct or visiting faculty may also teach. In the PGDM, Block Weeks in Terms 3 and 4 bring in external faculty and industry professionals to teach emerging skills.

The IMI Delhi faculty list, with names, areas and qualifications, will be published soon. Faculty strength, research centres, journals and conferences at IMI Delhi will also be published soon.