NDIM's Elite Board of Directors
Suresh Prabhakar PrabhuFormer Minister of Commerce & Industry and Civil Aviation, Railways, Power & Heavy Industries
Biography
Shri Suresh Prabhu is known as a man of action, having a penchant for undertaking reforms, scripting turnarounds and achieving superlative results by working in mission mode. An advocate for decisive growth-driven change, he is well respected for his impeccable integrity, passion and commitment towards society at large. Featured among the top three Indian leaders of the future by Asia Week magazine, Hong Kong in its cover story “Giant on the Move,” he has been guided by the dream and mission to balance the needs of human development while preserving the fragile environment. Shri Suresh Prabhu is currently the Minister of Commerce & Industry and Civil Aviation of Government of India. He has handled several ministries in past from Railways to Environment, Power and Heavy Industries. He has also been Prime Minister’s Sherpa for G20 summit and Chairman of the Task Force on Interlinking of Rivers. As soon as he assumes charge of an assignment, he secure the blue-print of development, and sets target dates for specific action points. He is a Rajya Sabha MP from Andhra Pradesh. He has been four-time Member of the Lok Sabha from Rajapur Constituency of Maharastra – one of the biggest states of India and has also represented Haryana in the Rajya Sabha. He is well known for his easy accessibility to the public, which not only acts as a deterrent to bureaucratic delays and corruption in the functioning of his Ministry, but also encourages new ideas and view-points. Shri Prabhu believes in listening to criticism of the Government’s policies, which he says, helps in reorienting the policies towards the greater common good. He is also a believer in people’s participation in the working of the Ministries under him, especially through the involvement of stakeholders
Vishwa Mohan BansalChairman of New Delhi Institute of Management
Senior Civil Servant and Served Govt. of India
Senior Civil Servant and Served Govt. of India
Biography
Vishwa Mohan Bansal, the Chairman of New Delhi Institute of Management, has been a senior civil servant and served Govt. of India, Governments of Punjab and Delhi, several Public sector undertakings and the Industry for 43 years at the highest levels. Starting his career in 1971 as CEO of the family owned National Industries and Hind Insulated Cable Co. in Punjab, he joined as City Magistrate Patiala and SDM Sunam in Punjab in 1974 where he is remembered for taking on the most feared political families of Punjab. He also took over the north – India’s richest Kaali- temple from old established mahants at the age of 25, settled the biggest labour union strikes at Punjab State Electricity Board having more than 80,000 employees when he was 27, and settled flash strikes by dreaded transport unions, while working as the youngest Addl M.D. of Pepsu Roadways at the age of 28. He was the special Magistrate for entire Punjab in the same year. He was brought to Delhi Development Authority to handle the massive manpower requirements at the 1982 Asian Games where he settled strikes by all the combined Trade Unions, days before the Asian Games, and got tremendous appreciation for his role in HR & Personnel Management for providing finest motivated manpower for the Construction and Management of 1982 Asian Games & Infrastructures. He was the youngest Director of the country’s biggest, richest and politically most sensitive Urban Development Authority, the Delhi Development Authority, at the age of 32. He served as Director of – Industries, Commercial Lands, Housing, HR & Personnel, Vigilance, Slums, Cooperatives and Group Housing for 11 years and is the only officer ever picked by the International Airports Authority of India to set up and head their richest lands & estates departments at all the 4 International Airports of Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, where he is still remembered for clearing massive unauthorized encroachments on airport lands by highly influential hoteliers and criminal gangs at the age of 38 years. He enjoys the coveted reputation of modernizing ISBT, Kashmere Gate; Asia’s biggest Bus Terminus, and for increasing its revenue by 300% while working as its CEO, during which period he also set up new ISBTs of Sarai kale Khan and Anand Vihar at Delhi when he was 40. No new ISBT has come up in Delhi after Bansal left the ISBT in 1993. Credit for the vast green land tracks at the Indira Gandhi International Airport also goes to Bansal who cleared these lands, acquired vast tracks of new lands, and planted 5 lac trees in 1988 at the Indira Gandhi International Airport. He has been the longest serving Collector of all the DDA lands in Delhi for 17 years and the youngest ever Secretary of DDA at the age of 43. He is perhaps the only civil servant ever to occupy a Statutory position, that of Secretary DDA, for 17 long years, where he also headed the most sensitive assignments of Commissioner & Principal Commissioner of Housing, Lands, Personnel, Training, Vigilance for as many years. He is among the very few career urban administrators & urban management experts of India who also possesses a degree in Engineering, in Law, in Journalism and an MBA. He was chosen to lead, one after the other, Indian delegation to more than 15 countries. He presented papers – at UN Organisations; Asia Pacific Organisation, Tokyo; RIPA (Royal Institute of Public Administration), London; ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organisation), Montreal; ASCI (Administrative Staff College of India), Hyderabad; IIPA (Indian Institute of Public Administration); ICA (Indian Council of Arbitration); forums of CII, ASSOCHAM, PHD Chamber of Commerce, FICCI etc. and advised various State Govts. and Ministries of Central Govt.; and represented India at highest forums in more than one dozen countries. He has been recognized as the change agent; appreciated for his unmatched standards of honesty and integrity, and for launching several bold initiatives in the most sensitive public organizations. He was credited by the Chief Information Commissioner of India for setting up the most transparent and the biggest RTI network in India at the DDA and was the only officer in India called upon by the CIC to address all the Information Commissioners of all the States and Union Territories of the Country at their first annual convention at Vigyan Bhawan in 2009. Bansal was chosen as the Duty Magistrate at 5 hangings of dreaded criminals and murderers, when he was just 24 years, at a time when other Magistrates preferred to proceed on leave. He is the only Magistrate in India to have exercised this rare responsibility. He has been part of every high level Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha Parliamentary and the Delhi Assembly Committee on Urban Infrastructure for 17 years, and has been behind all the Master Plans and Zonal Plans of Delhi for 30 years. He was picked up to be the first senior most appointee of Delhi Metro in 1996, to set up and start the DMRC even before the famous Sridharan joined the Delhi Metro. He was however not relieved by the Ministry of Urban Development, and continued to serve as Secretary of DDA. He was appointed Advisor to DDA and to the Lt. Governor of Delhi before his retirement in June 2010. After successful completion of the Common Wealth Games 2010, he decided to assume responsibilities as Chairman of New Delhi Institute of Management, India’s premier MBA school since 1992, where he heads the Board comprising of 7 former Chief Secretaries & Secretaries of the Govt. of India, former Supreme Court Judges, Chairmen of UPSC, CMDs of 4 top Industrial houses of India including the Presidents of FICCI and PHDCCI, and former Chief Election Commissioner of India and Advisor & Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India. His global experience at highest levels, innovative management techniques, have put NDIM on the world map; KPMG India has rated NDIM amongst the fastest growing MBA schools of Asia in January 2014, Business World has rated NDIM as the 15th best MBA in India, and Business India has rated NDIM in the category higher than A++ MBA schools of India continuously for 5 years. Price water house Coopers and Mail Today have ranked NDIM among the “most illustrious brands” continuously for 2 years. Mr. Bansal is the 2015 recipient of Life Time Achievement Award for his exemplary contribution towards education by the CEGR, a leading research & policy Think Tank of Delhi in the field of education, policy and research. He is special invitee to the Committees on Higher Education of both FICCI and CII and the Co- Chairman of PHDCCI Committee on Education. Mr. Bansal is the President of alumni associations of 50 year old NIT Kurukshetra and Sainik School Rewa, and is the recipient of Honorary Doctorate in Business Administration by KEISIE International University, South Korea.
Ex-Judge, Supreme Court of India
Ex-Chief Justice, Bombay High Court
Justice. Bisheshwar Prasad SinghEx-Judge, Supreme Court of India
Ex-Chief Justice, Bombay High Court
Ex-Chief Justice, Bombay High Court
Biography
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T. K. A. NairPrincipal Secretary & Advisor to Former
Prime Minister Shri Manmohan Singh
Prime Minister Shri Manmohan Singh
Biography
T K A Nair, IAS was Secretary in the Prime Minister’s Office with Prime Ministers Sh. I. K. Gujral and Sh. Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Was Principal Secretary to Prime Minister Sh. Manmohan Singh for seven years and Advisor to the Prime Minister in the rank of Union Minister of State years till 2014. He was awarded “Excellence in Bureaucratic Service” in 2011, “A.K. Nair Memorial Award” in 2010 and “K.P.S.Menon Memorial Award” in 2009. Awarded ‘Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star’ by Govt. of Japan. He was the Chief Secretary of Punjab and Chairman of Public Enterprises Selection Board, GOI, where he recruited CMDs and Directors of all the Maharatnas, Navratnas and the Public Sector Undertakings like BHEL, NTPC, ONGC, Oil India, PFC, SAIL, etc.
B.B. TandonEx-Chief Election Commissioner
Ex-Secy. Ministry of Personnel, GOI
Ex-Secy. Ministry of Personnel, GOI
Biography
B.B. Tandon, IAS was Chief Election Commissioner of India and India’s Election Commissioner. He served Himachal Pradesh in senior positions and was Secretary (Personnel) Govt. of India. He has been associated with national elections of Mauritius, Cambodia, Nigeria, Bangladesh and Maldives and is currently advising a number of countries and large companies.
Dr. (Prof) D.P. AgrawalEx-Chairman, UPSC
Ex-Dean, IIT Delhi
Ex-Dean, IIT Delhi
Biography
Dr. (Prof) D. P. Agrawal is ex-Chairman and ex Member of the Union Public Service Commission of India (2003- 2014). Earlier he was founder Director of the Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management (IITM) Gwalior, and the Managing Director of Education Consultants India Ltd. (EdCIL) . He continues to be on the search & selection committees of Vice-Chancellors of prominent universities including the Delhi University.
Maj. General (retd.) D. N. Khurana (AVSM)Ex-DG, AIMA; Board Member of
IIM(L), Cadilla Pharma & Havells
IIM(L), Cadilla Pharma & Havells
Biography
Maj. General (retd.) D. N. Khurana, AVSM is Advisor and formal Secretary General Asia Association of Management Organizations (AAMO) Japan. He was the Additional Director General Military Operations and headed several successful operations for India. Was the Director General AIMA and is on several high level committees of the Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India. He continues to be on the Board of IIM (L).
Padma Shri Harshavardhan NeotiaChairman, Ambuja Neotia Group
Ex-President, FICCI
Ex-President, FICCI
Biography
Padma Shri Harshavardhan Neotia is the Chairman Ambuja Neotia Group. He is one of the co-owners of Atletico de Kolkata , which is an Indian Super League football team along with Sourav Ganguly, Atletico Madrid, Sanjeev Goenka, Santosh Shaw, Utsav Parekh. He is the founder of one of the first joint sector companies in India, “Bengal Ambuja Housing Development Limited” in partnership with the government of West Bengal and is the President of FICCI.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambuja_Cements )
Tarlochan SinghEx-Member, Rajya Sabha; Ex-Chairman
National Commission for Minorities
National Commission for Minorities
Biography
Tarlochan Singh Ex – MP, Rajya Sabha, Vice Chairman and Chairman National Commission for Minorities, GOI, CMD Delhi Tourism, Press Secretary to President of India. He is currently the Vice – President of Indian Olympic Association and President, Archery Association of lndia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarlochan_Singh
Sirajuddin QureshiPresident, India Islamic Cultural Centre
Chairman, India Bahrain Joint Business Council
Chairman, India Bahrain Joint Business Council
Biography
Sirajuddin Quereshi is the President of one of India’s most powerful intellectual organizations, India Islamic Cultural Centre. He is the Chairman of India Bahrain Joint Business Council, President of Federation of India-Arab Chamber of Commerce & Industry, India-Kuwait Chamber of Commerce and Co Chairman of India-Malaysia Joint Business Council of India.
(http:/Iin.reuters.com/finance/stocks/officerProfile?symbol=HIND.BO&officerld= 1451980 ).
Tarun VijayEx-Member, Rajya Sabha; BoD Parliamentary
Network on IMF and World Bank
Network on IMF and World Bank
Biography
Tarun Vijay, Ex-MP, (Rajya Sabha) is a renowned Journalist and was the editor of Panchajanya from 1986 to 2008. He is a regular columnist in The Times of India and in the Daily Pioneer. He is the Director of Dr. Syamaprasad Mookerjee Research Foundation and has authored several books. He was member of the Parliamentary Standing Committees of the Ministry of Defence, Ministry of External Affairs and the President of Parliamentary Group on India China Friendship. He is a Film maker and Founder Director India East Asia Research Foundation.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarun_Vijay).
Mahesh GuptaChairman Kent RO Systems
Ex-President, PHDCCI
Ex-President, PHDCCI
Biography
Dr. Mahesh Gupta is the Chairman of Kent RO Systems and is best known as India’s ‘Pure Water’ Man, He is the pioneer behind bringing the reverse osmosis (RO) technology in India and founded Kent RO Systems in 1999. Earlier he worked with Indian Oil Corporation for 11 years and is credited with “Asia’s Most Promising Leader 2012-2013” award by the WCRC and the “Distinguished Alumnus Award” by IIT Kanpur. He is the immediate past President and Vice President of PHDCCI.
K K AgarwalChancellor, K R Mangalam University, Delhi- NCR
Vice Chancellor of Guru Govind Singh IP University
Vice Chancellor of Guru Govind Singh IP University
Biography
Dr. K.K. Aggarwal is currently the Chancellor, K R Mangalam University, Delhi- NCR. He has completed his tenure as Member, Board of Governors, IIT, Patna and as Chairman, Board of Governors, MNIT, Jaipur. He was the Founder Vice Chancellor of Guru Govind Singh lndraprastha University, Delhi for 10 years and built this premier affiliating university of NCR with a lot of care and initiative.
Dr. Purshottam LalPadma Bhushan
Chairman, Metro Hospitals
Chairman, Metro Hospitals
Biography
Padma Vibhushan Dr. Purshottam Lal has been honoured with Jawaharlal Nehru International Excellence Award, Rajiv Gandhi Award, Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan, Padma Vibhushan and Dr. B.C. Roy National Award Idiots and Delhi’s New Moti Bagh. He received “The Forbes Public Sector CEO of the World for 2014” – award.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purshotam_Lal)
Ashok Pratap SinghBoard of Trustees of Modern Schools
heads industries of Cotton Textile Manufacturing
heads industries of Cotton Textile Manufacturing
Biography
Ashok Pratap Singh is the President, Board of Trustees of Modern Schools (3 schools in Delhi and 3 in the NCR). Modern School is one of the oldest and most prestigious educational institution for 98 years. In addition to being a leader in education, he heads industries of Cotton Textile Manufacturing, Technical Plastic Films Manufacturing and International Trading. He has Masters in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Virendra PrakashEx-Chief Secretary, Delhi
Ex-Advisor to Governor, J&K
Ex-Advisor to Governor, J&K
Biography
Virendra Prakash IAS was – Chief Secretary, Delhi; Advisor Planning Commission of India and Advisor to the Governor J&K. He served as World Bank Advisor to Uganda and Nepal.
S.S. KohliEx-Chairman, PNB, Punjab & Sind Bank, IIFCL
Biography
S.S. Kohli, IAS is an Independent Director of PTC India Financial Services Ltd. He was – the Chairman & Managing Director India Infrastructure Finance Company Limited; Chairman Punjab National Bank; Chairman Small Industries Development Bank of India and the Chairman of Punjab & Sind Bank. He has been the Chairman of Indian Banks Association for two terms was awarded “Niryat Sandhu Gold Trophy” for outstanding export performance in the category of banks and “Golden Peacock National Training award.
Prem NathChairman, ECS Corp, Roshan
Polymers; Alumnus IIM-A
Polymers; Alumnus IIM-A
Biography
Er. Prem Nath (IIM-A) has four decades of association with most sought after companies in India and abroad. He owns ECS Corporation, Roshan Polymers Ltd. and Roshan Plastics (Pvt.) Ltd.
I.K. RasgotraEx-Secretary, Govt. of India,
Ministry of Personnel & Admin.
Ministry of Personnel & Admin.
Biography
I. K. Rasgotra was – the Secretary, Govt. of India, Ministry of Personnel &Administrative Reforms; Member of CAT at Delhi. He is an elected member of the prestigious Delhi Golf Club and consultant to several companies. He is on the Board of NSE.
Anil KhaitanPresident, PHDCCI. Director,
Board of Studies, AIMA
Board of Studies, AIMA
Biography
Anil Khaitan is the Chairman of SNK Corp and is MBA from IMI, Geneva. He has more than 40 years of business experience at top levels in Jute Industry, Paper Industry, Pharmaceuticals, Copper & Steel Industry and International Operations. He is the President of PHDCCI, Member of the World Presidents’ Organization and a Director on the Board of Studies of AIMA.
Dhanajay SinghDG, National HRD Network
Biography
Dhananjay Singh is the Director General of National HRD Network of India, the biggest conglomerate of top HR heads of this part of the world. He has earlier been Executive Director of National HRD Network for 5 years prior to which he worked in senior positions at All India ManagementAssociation.
S.S. DhanoaEx-Secy, Ministry of Health, GOI
Ex-Chief Secretary, Punjab
Ex-Chief Secretary, Punjab
Biography
S.S. Dhanoa IAS retd. Secretary, Ministry of Health, Govt. of India; Chief Secretary Punjab; Principal Advisor to the Governor of Punjab; Chairman – Bihar Public Service Commission and India’s Election Commissioner. He is the proud father of India’s Chief of Air Force, Air Chief Marshal BS Dhanoa.
Jatinder CheemaSenior Partner, Cyril Amarchand Mangal Das
Biography
Advocate Jatinder Cheema heads the Infrastructure, Energy, Oil & Gas projects practice as Partner Cyril Amarchand Mangaldas. He advises international clients, particularly in Canada, Africa, Brazil, the Middle East and China and is advising FIi and PE funds on investments in aviation, SEZ development and manufacturing, and private companies in the Oil & Gas sector. He also advises ONGC, GAIL India Ltd, IGL. Jai has assisted the Parliament of Canada as a legal counsel and drafted free-zone laws for the Middle East Countries.
Dr. B.B.L. MadhukarSecretary General of BRICS CCI,
Former Chairman and M.D of MMTC Ltd.
Former Chairman and M.D of MMTC Ltd.
Biography
Dr. B.B.L. Madhukar is the Secretary General of BRICS CCI. He is former CMD of MMTC Ltd., a Govt. of India Enterprise (The biggest player in India in the field of international trade for more than half century). He has over four decades of experience in International business (having visited more than 50 countries). He has served as an expert in International Business with ESCAP and has successfully completed study on the trade potential of SAARC countries. He is a recipient of the prestigious “Udyog Raina Award”.