Shekhar Chaudhuri

Who is Shekhar Chaudhuri?

Shekhar Chaudhuri is an Indian academic and management professor. He is a former Director of Indian Institute of Management Calcutta.

Chaudhuri graduated from IIT Kharagpur in 1972 with a B.Tech. degree in Mechanical Engineering. Subsequently he worked for Larsen & Toubro Limited as a Graduate Engineer Trainee. In 1975, he joined the Fellow Programme in Management at IIM Ahmedabad where he specialized in Business Policy. On completion of his doctoral studies in 1979, he joined Calico Mills, Ahmedabad where he initially worked as Staff Assistant to the Vice Chairman and Managing Director and later as Manager – Cloth Department and Manager – Organization Development Cell.

In 1981, Chaudhuri moved into academics and joined his alma-mater IIM Ahmedabad as an Assistant Professor in the Business Policy Area. He worked at IIM-A till November 2002, when he joined IIM Calcutta as the Director of the institute.

Chaudhuri has held faculty and administrative positions in several institutions of higher learning in his long career.