Professor L S Ganesh takes charge as vice-chancellor of ICFAI University

NEW DELHI: The Institute of Financial Analysts of India (ICFAI) University, Hyderabad has announced that Professor L S Ganesh took charge as the new vice-chancellor. Ganesh, a senior academician and researcher, has worked for several institutions in India and abroad at various positions.

Ganesh retired in July 2020 as a professor in the Department of Management Studies of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras. He has over three decades of academic experience in teaching, research, and intellectual services.

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Earlier, Ganesh served as an associate fellow in the Educational Planning Unit of the National Institute of Educational Planning and Administration at New Delhi, and then as an Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Management, (IIM) Bangalore. He has served as a Visiting Professor at the University of Passau in Germany, IIM Bangalore and IIM Kozhikode, the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad, National Institute of Technology (NIT) Trichy, and other national-level and sub-regional Institutions, including the newly established National Rail and Transportation Institute (NRTI) Vadodara.

Being passionate towards research, the professor has published over 85 research papers in top-rated academic journals which are cited often, earning him significant acclaim globally and nationally.

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“International organizations such as the World Bank and the UNDP, and national-level Institutions and organizations such as the MHRD, AICTE, NBA, ISRO, CII, FICCI, and MMA have utilized his expertise and services in some of their projects, programmes, and events. He has led Executive Development and Continuing Education programmes for the most reputed multinational and national-level organizations and has delivered keynote addresses, seminars, and lectures to a wide variety of audiences ranging from business, industry leaders and professionals through scientists to school children,” said an official statement from ICFAI Group.

During 2017-2018, Ganesh has served as:

• A Member of the Board of Governors of IIM Trichy, IIT Palakkad.
• A nominee of the President of India to the faculty selection committees for the Departments of Management at the NITs located in different states and union territories of India, Department of Liberal Arts at IIT Hyderabad, Department of Management at (ISM) Dhanbad, and to the Executive Council, and the Court of the Indian Maritime University (IMU).
• The Chairperson, Board of Governors, Government Engineering College, Kozhikode.