Strategic Academic Advisory Board

Strategic Academic Advisory Board

STRATEGIC ACADEMIC ADVISORY BOARD

The Strategic Academic Advisory Board of the Rural Management School has eminent persons from academia and industry and senior professors from the School. The SAAB brings in viewpoints from diverse fields and domains and provides a perspective and vision that adds depth and breadth to our thinking and actions.

Discussions that take place in the SAAB meetings have served as inputs intostrategy formulation, opened up ideas for introduction of new courses and helped us in charting out possible new directions that the School can move towards.

THE MEMBERS OF SAAB ARE:
Dean (Academics), School of Rural Management
Convener
Dean (Academics), Xavier Institute of Management
Members (Ex-officio)
Dean (Academics), School of Human Resource Management
Mr. Ajit Chaudhri, Chief Executive Officer, Tata Steel Foundation
Member (External)
Fr. Alexius Ekka, S.J., Rector, St. Xavier’s College, Ranchi
Member (External)
Prof. Debasis Pradhan, Professor of Marketing, XLRI, Jamshedpur
Member (External)
Mr. John George, Executive Director, THREAD
Member (External)
Mr. Liby T Johnson, Executive Director, Gram Vikas
Member(External)
Prof. M. S. Sriram, Professor, IIM, Bangalore
Member(External)
Ms. Neelima Khetan, CSR and Social Sector Advisor
Member(External)
Ms. Nidhi Pundir, Director, HCL Foundation
Member (External)
Mr. Pankaj Ballabh, Vice President, CSR, Bajaj Auto Ltd.
Member (External)
Mr. Vijay Pratap Singh Aditya, Co-Founder & CEO of EkGaon Technologies
Member (External)
Prof. S. S. Singh
Member (Internal)