Alumni Association of IIM Calcutta

Many of IIM Calcutta's alumni have attained academic positions at prestigious colleges and business schools that are ranked among the top 30 in the 2016 Financial Times Rankings.

The IIM Calcutta is a business school in West Bengal. This is the first Indian business school to be founded, and in 2017 the Indian government designated it as a National Significant Institution. The prominent alumni association of the IIM Calcutta has helped it achieve a lot of recognition. Outstanding administrative, business, and management personalities have come out of the institute.

IIM Calcutta's Doctoral Program Alumni 

The doctoral students of IIM Calcutta frequently land faculty positions at the nation’s top business schools, including the IIMs (Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Calcutta, Lucknow, Indore, Kozhikode, Tiruchirappalli, Ranchi, Visakhapatnam, Bodhgaya), IIT Kharagpur, IIT Kanpur, ISI Calcutta, Great Lakes Institute of Management, MDI, XLRI, and SPJIMR, among others. Many of them have also attained academic positions at prestigious colleges and business schools that are ranked among the top 30 in the 2016 Financial Times Rankings. Ajay Kalra (the Herbert S Autrey Professor of Marketing at Rice University), Monideepa Tarafdar ( a Professor at Lancaster University’s Management School), and Sebastian Morris (Professor of Economics at IIM Ahmedabad) are a few well-known alumni of IIM Calcutta in the teaching sector. 

Many of IIMC's doctoral students have gone on to lead specialised research organisations and think tanks for Public Policy. Ramchandra Guha, an accomplished historian and author who received the Padma Bhushan, Bernard C D’Mello, Deputy Editor of the Economic & Political Weekly, Jayesh Ranjan, Secretary [IAS Cadre], Information Technology Department, Telangana State, Nilanjan Ghosh, Director of the Observer Research Foundation, and Harsh Thukral (Deputy Director, National Productivity Council) are some of our notable alumni in this field.

A third of the doctoral students have risen to positions of leadership in prestigious business and industrial enterprises. Prominent fellows include Nandini S, Myshkin Ingawale Tejas, M Raychaudhuri, and the Managing Director of BNP Paribas’ Asian Equity Strategist (Vice-President and Group Head, Organisational Development, Infosys).

PGP Alumni of IIM Calcutta

Some notable PGP alumni of IIM Calcutta, who are working in the industry include, Gita V Johar (Vice Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and the Meyer Feldberg Professor of Business), K Ganesh (serial entrepreneur with four successful Greenfield Ventures and Exits), Sumant Sinha (the Founder, Chairman and Managing Director of ReNew Power – India’s largest clean energy company) etc. 

Alumni and Different Sectors they’re working in 

Notable Alumni : 

There is a vast list of noteworthy graduates from IIM Calcutta who excelled in every discipline in which they were trained. Every year, the Institute has a history of generating top-notch alumni. Also, the IIM Calcutta Notable Alumni has committed itself to enhancing the institute’s standing.

The list of additional prominent IIM Calcutta graduates and their occupations is shown below.

Details of Some of the Notable Alumni

1. Ramchandra Guha

Ramachandra Guha is an Indian historian, author, and philosopher whose areas of expertise include economics, social policy, politics, the environment, and the history of cricket. His pieces are published in a number of other newspapers, including The Telegraph, the Hindustan Times, the Hindi daily and Amar Ujala. He obtained a Ph.D. in the history of forestry in Uttarakhand in addition to researching the Chipuco movement at the Indian Institute of Management.

2. Sunil Duggal

An executive and businessman from India, Sunil Duggal. He was the previous CEO of Dabur, the biggest producer of ayurvedic medicines in India. Duggal possesses an Indian Master of Business Administration from Kolkata School of Management and a Bachelor of Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology and Science. Duggal graduated with an MBA from the IIM Calcutta.

3. Amish Tripathi

Amish Tripathi is an author from India. He is well-known for the Ram Chandra and Shiva trilogies of literature. The Ram Chandra series is the second-best-selling series in Indian publishing history, behind the Shiva trilogy, which has sold the most copies overall. He graduated from IIM Calcutta.

4. Indra Nooyi

Indra Nooyi, an Indian executive chairman and chief executive officer of Pepsi, was born on October 28, 1955. She has been acknowledged as one of the 100 most powerful women in the world in recent years. She was listed as the 13th most powerful woman in the world by Forbes in 2014, and she was listed as the second most influential woman by Fortune in 2015. The Indian Institute of Management in Calcutta awarded Nooyi a Post Graduate Course Certificate in 1976.

IIM Calcutta Alumni Association Mumbai : 

IIM Calcutta Alumni Association was established as an official association to represent our alumni in Mumbai, but it has also represented their interests in Western India. The association was established in 2009 and is listed as a charity with the Mumbai Charity Commissioner. The association will keep the alumni informed about the many activities scheduled for the year and the upcoming years when they give their most recent contact information. Life members receive all the standard rights of members in exchange for a small one-time fee of INR 1,000. For example, membership in the Association entitles them to vote for candidates running for office in the association, the ability to run for elected posts in the chapter, special access to certain important events, selected updates from alma mater, etc. 

Top Locations where IIMC Alumni are based/working in

1. Calcutta
2. Chennai
3. Mumbai
4. Delhi
5. Bengaluru
6. Singapore
7. United Kingdom
8. Dubai
9. Pune
10. Hyderabad
11. Kuwait

About the Author

Manisha Jethwani is an English major student at University of Rajasthan, based in Jaipur. Apart from being an active part of the literary society Eclectics and a published writer at People's Reflection live, she is also the winner of IIT Kharagpur's '22 poetry slam competition and Readathon at IEEE Modi University.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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