Vice Chancellor & Chairman
Board of Management Ahmedabad University Professor and Former Director IIM Bangalore
Professor Pankaj Chandra is the Vice Chancellor of Ahmedabad University. He was the Director ofthe Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (2007-2013) and Professor of Operations & Technology Management at IIM Ahmedabad. He holds a BTech from the Banaras Hindu University and a PhD from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He has been a tenured faculty at McGill University and IIM Ahmedabad.
He was the first Associate Dean (Academic) at ISB, Hyderabad. Professor Chandra was a member of the Government of India Committee on Rejuvenation of Higher Education (Yashpal Committee) that relooked at the Indian Higher Education system as well as the Committee on the Autonomy ofCentral Institutions. He has been a member ofthe Telecom Regulatory Authority ofIndia (TRAI).