Pritam Singh Ranked 27

An Inspiring role model, Dr. Pritam Singh has spent his entire life tirelessly doing what he does best: awakening students, academia, corporate heads and policy makers to raise their excellence to the next level. As the chairman and member of several policymaking committees and bodies of Government of India, he has stamped his perspective on policy issues that surround both management education and corporate management in India. He sits on the Board of more than 50 reputed private and public sector organizations helping them initiate the change process and charter a winning corporate strategy. As a consultant, Dr Pritam Singh has done work with more than 200 CEOs in India and abroad and conducted more than 100 retreats for the top management of both private and public sector organizations as well as Multi-national Corporations. In a fitting tribute to this change maestro, it was Dr. Pritam Singh who was entrusted with the distinction of organizing and directing the first retreat of the Central Ministers as part of Late Shri Rajiv Gandhi’s initiative to develop Ministers as Transformational Leaders and Change masters.

As an academic administrator, Dr. Pritam Singh has an unparalleled record. With his entrepreneurial vision and path breaking innovative methods, Dr. Pritam Singh turnaround the fortunes of both MDI (where he was director 1994-1998 & 2003-2006) and IIM Lucknow(1998-2003) and quite fittingly earned the repute of Midas touch Director.His distinguished services were acknowledged by the country when the President of India conferred on him the prestigious ‘Padma-Shri’ in year 2003. It was for the first time that any Professor and a serving Director in India received this coveted award in the field of management education.