Ahmedabad, India, June 2024 – Tarun Jain has been appointed as the Reserve Bank of India Chair in Finance & Economics at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA).
Tarun Jain has been a part of IIMA for over 5 years, starting his journey as an Associate Professor of Economics in June 2019. He has also served as the Chair of the Economics Area from April 2022 to March 2024 and the Chair of the Centre for Management of Health Services from August 2021 to March 2024. Additionally, Tarun has been a Secondary Member of the Ravi J. Matthai Centre for Educational Innovation since June 2023.
His contributions to the field extend beyond IIMA. He has been an Associate Editor at Economic Modelling since April 2022 and a Member of the Digital Committee at the National Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare (NABH) since May 2023. Tarun was also a Fulbright-Nehru Academic and Professional Excellence Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison from October 2022 to May 2023 and served as a Visiting Scientist at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), New Delhi in March 2023.
Prior to his tenure at IIMA, Tarun Jain was an Assistant Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Indian School of Business from 2009 to 2019. His early career includes roles as an Instructor at the University of Virginia from 2006 to 2009, an Associate at Charles River Associates from 2001 to 2003, and an Analyst at Oliver Wyman from 2000 to 2001. He also worked as an Associate at Braun Consulting from 1999 to 2000.
About Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad:
Founded on December 11, 1961, the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) quickly assumed leadership in management education in India and has maintained it ever since. It has grown into India’s favorite management school, attracting the best of students and faculty. Recruiters ranging from global investment banks to NGOs working with the poor harvest its graduates. Delighted, they keep coming back for more. It is not surprising that one-third of the CEOs in India had their introduction to professional management at IIMA.
Ever since the ranking of business schools started in India in the 1990s, IIMA has been occupying the top slots year after year irrespective of who does the ranking and what parameters they use. In the Asia-Pacific region, IIMA has been repeatedly ranked among the top five business schools. In global rankings, it has consistently found itself among the top hundred business schools.
In 2008, IIMA became the first business school in India to receive the international accreditation, EQUIS (European Quality Improvement System) by the European Foundation for Management Development. In 2010, the Financial Times of London ranked IIMA’s two-year PGP (Post-Graduate Programme) eighth globally among Masters in Management Programmes that do not insist on work experience for admission. The same agency ranked IIMA’s Post-Graduate Programme for Executives (PGPX-for students with work experience) 11th globally among MBA programmes in 2011.
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