IIM Calcutta

Dr. R. Rajesh Babu is a Public Policy and Management Professor at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. He is also a Member of the Board of Governors of IIMC. Prof. Babu has received his Ph.D. in International Law from JNU, New Delhi. He has over two decades of experience in industry and academia. He served as a post-doctoral scholar in residence at the Geneva Graduate Institute, a visiting fellow at Hamburg University, and a fellow at the Hague Academy of International Law. From 2002 to 2009, he was Senior Legal Officer at the Asian-African Legal Consultative Organization (AALCO), New Delhi, an intergovernmental organisation (IGO). He also practiced Law briefly at the High Court and the subordinate courts. Prof. Babu is a regular contributor to international journals, magazines and books.

Dr. V. K. Unni, a Professor with the Public Policy and Management Group of the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, teaches at the doctoral and postgraduate levels. He did his Ph.D. in Law from NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad. He taught courses on intellectual property law and banking and finance law at NALSAR University for many years. He was the first Indian academician to receive the prestigious Thomas Edison Innovation Fellowship instituted by George Mason University's Center for Protection of Intellectual Property, Virginia (US). He was also awarded the Max Planck India Fellowship for the term 2008-11 by the Max Planck Society (Germany) and was the only awardee from the field of Law. He was a Scholar in Residence at the School of Law, University of California Davis (US). He regularly contributes to international journals, newspapers, magazines, and books.

Dr. Pragyan Rath is an Associate Professor at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIMC). She has been researching visual-verbal representations in a literary genre called Ekphrasis and holds a Ph.D. from IIT Bombay. Her research publications in national and international journals focus on Visual Cultures, Communication Analytics and Language Games. Dr. Rath teaches Problem Solving Techniques and Advanced Analytical Skills in Corporate Communications across all programmes in IIMC. She is developing strategic Communication as a research and expertise through her various authored collaborations, of which a few include Communication Strategies for Corporate Leaders (Routledge, 2018); Corporate Communication (Cengage, 2018); and New Insights into Prognostic Data Analytics in Corporate Communication (Business Expert Press, 2020).

Dr. Nandita Roy teaches communication at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. She received her Ph.D. in English Literature from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Her research is multidisciplinary, at the intersection of philosophy, gender studies, technology, storytelling and new media, with special emphasis on video games. Her academic training in qualitative research methods in humanities and new media and her experience in the media and communications industry informs her understanding of philosophy, ethics, gender and media. She seeks to understand how these intersecting areas can help create a more diverse, inclusive, ethical business environment. Dr. Roy’s teaching philosophy is to teach her students a sense of inquisitiveness and joy in learning. Through inclusive critical pedagogy using elements of game-based learning, she seeks to contextualize theoretical ideas for application in business contexts, thereby bridging the gap between theory and practice. She has previously worked at IIM Lucknow and National Geographic Channel, India.

Dr. Debashis Saha has been a MIS Group & Computer Science Area Professor at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta since 2004. He has a Ph.D. in Computer Communication and Networks from IIT Kharagpur. He was awarded the Best Research Paper of Technology and Innovation Management (TIM) Division at the Academy of Management annual conference (AOM 2020). His broad research interests include Digital Business Transformation, Digital Ecosystem, IoT, Industry 4.0, Techno Economics of ICT, 4G/5G Network Operations, Management and security, ICT for Development, WDM Optical Networks, Protocol Engineering, etc. Prof Saha is the recipient of the 'Class of 1992-27 Forever Chair Professorship' Award instituted by the alumni of the PGP 27th batch at IIM Calcutta.

Dr. Sumanta Basu holds a doctoral degree from IIM Ahmedabad and has six years of industry experience in the Manufacturing sector and IT Consulting. His academic experience comprises 12 years of management teaching at IIM Calcutta and as a visiting faculty in six other IIMs. His primary research areas include heuristics and meta-heuristics, risk management and uncertainty, operations and supply chain management, and pricing and revenue management. He holds multiple US patents in process improvement and publishes in leading scholarly journals. He is also involved in various management development programmes/consulting activities associated with the Govt. of India and leading private sector organisations.

Dr. Mritiunjoy Mohanty, a distinguished Professor of Economics at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, earned his Ph.D. from JNU, Centre for Economic Studies and Planning, New Delhi. He has significantly contributed to the academic community with an extensive research background in open-economy macroeconomics, growth and structural change, the political economy of growth and development, employment and labor markets, development economics, comparative growth experience, and international trade and financial markets. His expertise has been recognized through his roles as a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Developing Area Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada; a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Economics at Hyderabad Central University, Andhra Pradesh, India; a Visiting Faculty member at West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences in Kolkata, West Bengal, India; and a Visiting Researcher at El Colegio de México in Mexico City.

Dr. Biswatosh Saha is a Professor of Strategic Management at IIM Calcutta. He holds a PhD from IIMC and a BTech from IIT, Kharagpur. Dr. Saha has delivered courses at the postgraduate level, including Strategic Management, International Management, Managing Innovation, Corporate Social Irresponsibility, and Strategy as Practice: The Social and Political in Strategy Work. Additionally, he has taught a doctoral course on Strategy as Practice. With a strong focus on strategic management, he has garnered significant recognition for his extensive research contributions. Dr. Saha is also credited with co-authoring several books and journals that are key academic resources across premier B-schools. His research interests encompass various critical areas, including Postcolonial management studies, critical management studies, Strategy as Practice, the digital economy, and complexity.