Late Padamshree Dr.Pritam Singh
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 levels. 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 currently sits on the Boards of five 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 worked 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.
Indeed he is the guru, the trainer, the coach, and the counselor at the Board and the Top Management level of the Indian Corporate World having conducted numerous workshops and retreats for the C.E.Os. of various organizations in the corporate world. Dr. Pritam Singh has the unique 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 when he was Professor and Dean at Administrative Staff College of India-Hyderabad. While he was director of IIM-Lucknow, Dr Singh organized retreats for Vice Chancellors and Deans of Universities for improving governance of universities.
As an academic administrator, Dr. Pritam Singh has an unparalleled record. With his entrepreneurial vision and path breaking innovative methods, Dr. Pritam Singh turned around the fortunes of IMI-Delhi (where he was the Director General 2011-2014); MDI (where he was director 1994-1998 & 2003-2006) and IIM Lucknow (where he was director 1998-2003). He also made significant contributions in reorienting the foci of Administrative Staff College of India and Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIM-B) where he worked as Dean and Senior Professor. Quite fittingly therefore, he earned the repute of Midas touch Director.
A thought leader with extraordinary insight, Dr. Singh is the author of ten academically reputed books, three of which are award winning. He has also published over 60 research papers in various national and international journals. He is a globally sought after speaker and has addressed various Indian and global audiences including Chambers of Commerce in various countries notably Holland, France, Germany, Greece, Russia, UK, USA, Thailand, Mauritius, Egypt etc.
Dr Singh is very active in academic advisory having served in various capacities for the cause of higher education. Notable positions held are:
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Chairman of Indira Gandhi Technical University (ongoing);
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Visitor’s nominee for Delhi University, Banaras Hindu University and IIT-Delhi Member of the Executive Council of Banaras Hindu University, University of Pondicherry, Central University of Himachal Pradesh and Central University, Tezpur;
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Vice Chairman of the AICTE committee for accreditation of Management Institutes
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Chairman of the Sub-committee ‘Institutional Management and Leadership Development in Higher Education’ instituted by the Planning Commission for 12th Five Year Plan (2012-2017).
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Member 6th Pay commission for IITs, IIMs and NIITs
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Member of the Tenth Five Year Plan for the Higher Education.
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Member NIT reforms committee
Dr. Singh has also been the member of some important Government Committees. In 2016 he was appointed by the Ministry of Defence as expert member of Defence Acquisition and Procurement Committee. The other notable committee memberships are :
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Member Banking Selection Board for selecting CMDs and Executive Directors
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Member of the Search Committee for Selection of non-official Directors on the Boards of Central Public Sector Enterprises.
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Member DOPT Committee on leadership building for the IAS Officers.
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Member Ministry of Home Affairs Committee for the capacity building of IPS Officers.
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Member of the Search Committees for the selection of the Vice Chancellors and Directors.
His distinguished services were acknowledged by the country when the President of India conferred on him the prestigious ‘Padma Shri’. 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.
In December 2006, MIRBIS-the leading management school in Moscow, honoured him with the title ‘GLOBAL THOUGHT LEADER’ 2006- 2007. HE WAS NOT JUST THE FIRST INDIAN, BUT THE FIRST ASIAN TO HAVE WALKED ON THIS GLOBAL HALL OF FAME.
He has also been the recipient of several prestigious awards. To name a few
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Thinkers50 India-Ranked 27 out of 50 Indian Thinkers (both in India and globally) by “Thinkers50 India”
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Leadership Thinker of the Century- Top Rankers 2013
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AIMA Academic Leadership Award 2009 – First Recipient;
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Sarvapalli Radhakrishnan Memorial Award: Teacher of Teachers, 2009- First Recipient;
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Lifetime Achievement Award by the Swami Vivekananda Foundation, 2006;
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TIE-UP California USA Outstanding Entrepreneur Award (2002) – First Recipient from the Indian academic community;
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Outstanding CEO (Chief Executive Officer) National HRD Award (2001);
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Best Director Award of Indian Management Schools (1998) – First Recipient;
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Best Motivating Professor IIM Bangalore Award (1993) – First Recipient
Dr. Singh is an M. Com (Gold Medalist), BHU; MBA Indiana Bloomington USA; Ph. D in Management, BHU; D. Lit Honoris Casa, U.P. Technical University and NIT Kurukshetra; and Fulbright Fellow Kelley School of Management, Bloomington, Indiana, U.S.A.
Dr. Singh has worked in the following institutions of national and international repute:
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International Management Institute (IMI): Director General and Professor
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Management Development Institute- Gurgaon: Professor and Director (Twice)
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IIM, Lucknow- Director
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IIM, Bangalore: Senior Faculty and Dean
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Administrative Staff College of India: Senior Faculty and Dean
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XLRI –Jamshedpur
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Banaras Hindu University
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University of Rajasthan –Jaipur