Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India, July 2025 – Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR, a leading multidisciplinary research institution, has announced the appointment of Professor Rajesh Chakrabarti as the Dean of the School of Management and Entrepreneurship (SME). Professor Chakrabarti will play a pivotal role in advancing the School’s vision of becoming a globally recognised centre for management education, research, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
Welcoming the appointment, Professor Ananya Mukherjee, Vice-Chancellor, Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR, said, “We welcome Professor Chakrabarti to lead our School of Management and Entrepreneurship. Professor Chakrabarti is a distinguished academic, policy advisor and thought leader in the field of finance, public policy and management education. His career spans over two decades across premier institutions and policy organizations in India and around the world. I am confident that under his leadership, the School will scale new heights in academic excellence, innovation, and industry engagement.”
Professor Chakrabarti holds a Ph.D. in Management from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), a Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM Ahmedabad). His appointment marks a significant step in University’s ongoing effort to shape a business school that blends academic rigor with real-world relevance, and where entrepreneurship is deeply embedded in the learning experience.
On stepping into his new position Professor Rajesh Chakrabarti said, “I am honoured to join Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR’s School of Management and Entrepreneurship. I look forward to collaborating with our exceptional faculty and students to further boost the school’s academic excellence and build strong industry partnerships. Together we will work towards preparing our future leaders to thrive in an increasingly dynamic and interconnected global economy.”
Throughout his career, Professor Chakrabarti’s research has focused on Indian financial markets, corporate governance, and public policy. He has authored or edited ten books on subjects ranging from Finance and Public Policy to AI and civil society action. His notable works include the widely used The Oxford Short Introduction to Public Policy in India, and non-academic non-fiction titles such as Grit, Guts and Gumption and Bihar Breakthrough. His scholarly articles have been published in leading international journals including the Journal of Financial Economics.
Professor Chakrabarti has been affiliated with several prestigious global and Indian institutions including the Wharton School, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, as well the India Development Foundation and the Center for Development Policy and Practice in India. He has held key academic leadership roles at the Management Development Institute (Gurgaon), Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Jindal Global Business School, Indian School of Business (ISB), and Bennett University. Before returning to India to join ISB, he taught at the University of Alberta, Canada and the Georgia Institute of Technology.
About Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR
Shiv Nadar University, Delhi-NCR, is a multidisciplinary research university offering various academic programs at the undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral levels. The Institution was established in 2011 by the Shiv Nadar Foundation, a philanthropic foundation established by Mr. Shiv Nadar, founder of HCL. It is one of the only four private institutions to be recognized as an Institution of Eminence by the Government of India. As per QS Asia 2024 rankings, it was placed amongst the top 36% institutions in Asia and is ranked 41 amongst Indian institutions. As per the Nature India Index 2024, it was ranked amongst the top 25 Indian institutions for research. In the Government’s National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF), Shiv Nadar IoE has been the youngest institution in the ‘top 100’ Overall list for seven consecutive years.
Established in 1994, by Shiv Nadar, Founder, HCL – a US$13.8 billion leading global technology enterprise, the Foundation is committed to the creation of a more equitable, merit-based society by empowering individuals through transformational education, and to bridge the socio-economic divide. Over the last 30 years the Foundation has directly touched the lives of over 39,000 alumni and students through its marquee institutions in literacy, K12 and higher education. Today, the Foundation has a community of over 100,000 constituents, which includes not only globally dispersed alumni and students but also faculty members, corporate executives, and extended families.
The Foundation has invested over US$1.5 billion in its seven landmark institutions and initiatives across education and art. Currently, over 16,000 students and over 2,700 faculty and staff are part of the Foundation along with more than 26,000 strong globally dispersed alumni community.
The Foundation’s students have gone to study at some of the best institutions globally including the Ivy League in the US and top universities in other countries including Australia, Singapore, China and UK. Students are also working in major corporations, including Goldman Sachs, Honda, HP, Schindler, and several others both in India and across other geographies. Faculty across the Foundation institutions are drawn from the best Indian and international universities, with a strong focus on research and innovation.
The Shiv Nadar Foundation pursues the philosophy of ‘Creative Philanthropy’. It is a powerful model which envisages creation of institutions that are built to last and continue to impact future generations. It is an approach that allows sustained institutionalised philanthropy for long-term, high-impact, socio-economic transformation.
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