List of IIM Calcutta alumni

This list of IIM Calcutta alumni includes notable people who are alumni of Indian Institute of Management Calcutta.

Business

• Rohit Chadda, CEO for the digital business at Zee group (Zee Entertainment, Zee Media and DNA);[1] co-founder of foodpanda.com; Fortune 40 under 40[2]
• Sunil Alagh, former MD and CEO of Britannia Industries
• Ajit Balakrishnan, founder and chief executive officer of Rediff.com;[3] chairman of the board of governors of IIM Calcutta[4]
• Vikrant Bhargava, co-founder and group marketing director, PartyGaming[5]
• Ashish Chauhan, managing director and CEO, Bombay Stock Exchange[6]
• Pranay Chulet, co-founder and CEO of Quikr
• Sunil Duggal, chief executive officer of Dabur[7]
• Sabyasachi Hajara, chairman and managing director, Shipping Corporation of India[8]
• Patu Keswani, chairman and managing director of Lemon Tree Hotels[9]
• Shantanu Khosla, MD of Procter & Gamble India
• M. R. Madhavan, president and co-founder of PRS Legislative Research
• Deepak Mohoni, stock market analyst, coined the term Sensex
• P M Murty, former MD and CEO of Asian Paints[10]
• Srinath Narasimhan, managing director and chief executive officer of Tata Teleservices
• T. V. Narendran, MD of Tata Steel
• Indra Nooyi, chairman and chief executive officer, PepsiCo[11][12]
• Jessie Paul, author and marketer[13][14]
• Sudhakar Ram, founder and CEO of Mastek
• Shyam Srinivasan, MD and CEO of Federal Bank
• Nishi Vasudeva, chairperson and managing director at Hindustan Petroleum; first woman ever to head a Navratna PSU
• Gopal Vittal, CEO of Bharti Airtel (India)
• Sumant Sinha, founder, chairman and CEO, ReNew Power
• Sanjay Gupta, Country manager of Google

Academics

• Prakash Apte, academician; professor and former director of Indian Institute of Management Bangalore[15]
• B. B. Chakrabarti, former finance professor at IIM Calcutta; current Director of Indian Institute of Management Ranchi (IIM Ranchi)
• Dipesh Chakrabarty, historian[16]
• Dan Gode, professor at New York University
• Ramachandra Guha, historian and author
• Chetan Sankar, Emeritus Professor of Raymond J. Harbert College of Business, Auburn University
• Gita Johar, vice dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion and Meyer Feldberg Professor of Business, Columbia Business School, Columbia University[17]
• Krishna Palepu, professor at Harvard Business School, senior adviser to the president for Global Strategy, Harvard University[18]
• Mohanbir Sawhney, McCormick Tribune Professor of Technology, Kellogg School of Management[19]
• Venkatesh Shankar, Coleman Chair Professor of Marketing and director of research at the Center for Retailing Studies at Mays Business School at Texas A&M University
• Paul Shrivastava, David O'Brien Distinguished Professor of Sustainable Enterprise, Concordia University
• Vallabh Sambamurthy, Dean of the Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin, Madison
• M. J. Xavier, founding director of Indian Institute of Management Ranchi[20]
• Ravi Dhar, George Rogers Clark Professor of Management and Marketing and Director of the Center for Customer Insights at the Yale School of Management[21]

Literature

• Swati Kaushal, novelist[22]
• Manreet Sodhi Someshwar, novelist[23]
• Amish Tripathi, novelist, author of the Shiva Trilogy[24]

Government, politics, and social work

• Amolak Rattan Kohli, is a former governor of the Indian state of Mizoram
• Krishnamurthy Subramanian, the 17th Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India
• Amolak Rathan Kohli, former Governor of Mizoram[25]
• Vinayak Lohani, social entrepreneur, founder of Parivaar[26]
• Ajay Bisaria, Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan, former Ambassador to Poland and Lithuania[27]

Spirituality

• Swami Mukundananda, Spiritual Leader; Bestselling Author; Founder of JKYog and Radha Krishna Temple of Dallas

Other

• Malli Mastan Babu, leading mountaineer; known for his Guinness World record for scaling the seven summits in 172 days in 2006.[28]

References

1. Bureau, Adgully. "ZEE Group appoints Rohit Chadda to the role of CEO - Digital Publishing". www.adgully.com. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
2. "Rohit Chadda | IIM Calcutta". www.iimcal.ac.in. Retrieved 4 September 2018.
3. Rediffiland.com, Ajith Balakrishnan's Blog - IIM Calcutta convocation speech - 1 April 2007
4. Iimcal.ac.in Archived 7 March 2010 at the Wayback Machine
5. IIMCal.ac.in Archived 26 November 2009 at the Wayback Machine, IIM-C alumnus joins as keynote presenter at World Poker Congress : Vikrant Bhargava
6. "Management Team (As of July 2011)". Bombay Stock Exchange. Archived from the original on 20 September 2011. Retrieved 5 September 2011.
7. "IIM-C alumni to meet on December 22". The Financial Express. Kolkata. 18 December 2006. Retrieved 2 September 2012.
8. Anil Mascarenhas & Hemant P. Maradia (25 November 2009). "Mr. Sabyasachi Hajara, CMD, The Shipping Corporation of India". http://www.indiainfoline.com. Retrieved 4 October 2011. External link in |publisher= (help)
9. Nair, Radhika P. (3 June 2011). "Patu Keswani, entrepreneur by chance". The Economic Times. Retrieved 28 September 2017.
10. "Retail demand is likely to be more or less normal: Asian Paints". The Economic Times. 27 July 2011. Retrieved 20 June 2012.
11. Leaders Forum, Yale School of Management - Indra Nooyi
12. CNN.com, IIM Calcutta - Alumni Spotlight - Indra Nooyi, new chairman and CEO of PepsiCo
13. Vivek Kamath (29 October 2009). "10 Reasons to Read Jessie Paul's No Money Marketing". Forbes. Retrieved 20 June 2012.
14. Shelley Singh (10 November 2009). "Wipro's CMO Jessie Paul quits to start own venture". The Economic Times. The Times Group. Retrieved 20 June 2012.
15. "Prakash Apte is new IIM director". The Times of India. 8 October 2002. Retrieved 20 June 2012.
16. "Dipesh Chakrabarty Appointed to Faculty at Institute for Advanced Study". Institute for Advanced Study. Retrieved 20 June 2012.
17. Gita Johar, Columbia Business School Faculty Staff Directory
18. "Biography - Krishna G. Palepu". Harvard Business School. Retrieved 13 January 2012.
19. Mohanbir S. Sawhney
20. "IIM Ranchi gets new director from IIM Kolkata as Dr MJ Xavier steps down". www.mbauniverse.com. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
21. "Distinguished Alumnus Award | IIM Calcutta". www.iimcal.ac.in. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
22. Rachel Donadio (19 March 2006). "The Chick-Lit Pandemic". The New York Times. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
23. Sana Amirjanu Narayan (15 June 2012). "Weaving tales around the Taj". The Hindu. Retrieved 2 September 2012.
24. "The Author". Archived from the original on 6 December 2011. Retrieved 12 December 2011.
25. "AMOLAK RATTAN KOHLI". Retrieved 20 June 2012.
26. "The Founder | Parivaar". parivaar.org. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
27. "IIMC alumnus, Ajay Bisaria (PGDM 20th Batch), the new high commissioner to Pakistan hopes for better relations | IIM Calcutta". www.iimcal.ac.in. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
28. Bag, Shamik (20 September 2015). "Malli Mastan Babu: India's mountain man". livemint.com/. Retrieved 8 November 2017.