List of IIM Calcutta alumni

This list of IIM Calcutta alumni includes notable people who are alumni of Indian Institute of Management Calcutta.

Business

• Sunil Alagh, former MD and CEO of Britannia Industries
• Ajit Balakrishnan, founder and chief executive officer of Rediff.com; ^[1] chairman of the board of governors of IIM Calcutta ^[2]
• Vikrant Bhargava, co-founder and group marketing director, PartyGaming ^[3]
• Rohit Chadda, CEO for the digital business at Zee group (Zee Entertainment, Zee Media and DNA); ^[4] co-founder of foodpanda.com; Fortune 40 under 40 ^[5]
• Ashish Chauhan, managing director and CEO, Bombay Stock Exchange ^[6]
• Pranay Chulet, co-founder and CEO of Quikr
• Sunil Duggal, chief executive officer of Dabur ^[7]
• Sanjay Gupta, country manager of Google
• Sabyasachi Hajara, chairman and managing director, Shipping Corporation of India ^[8]
• Patu Keswani, chairman and managing director of Lemon Tree Hotels ^[9]
• Shantanu Khosla, MD of Procter & Gamble India
• M. R. Madhavan, president and co-founder of PRS Legislative Research
• P M Murty, former MD and CEO of Asian Paints ^[10]
• Srinath Narasimhan, managing director and chief executive officer of Tata Teleservices
• T. V. Narendran, MD of Tata Steel
• Indra Nooyi, chairman and chief executive officer, PepsiCo ^{[11] [12]}
• Jessie Paul, author and marketer ^{[13] [14]}
• Sudhakar Ram, founder and CEO of Mastek
• Sumant Sinha, founder, chairman and CEO, ReNew Power
• Shyam Srinivasan, MD and CEO of Federal Bank
• Nishi Vasudeva, chairperson and managing director at Hindustan Petroleum; first woman to head a Navratna PSU
• Gopal Vittal, CEO of Bharti Airtel (India)

Academics

• Prakash Apte, academic; professor and former director of Indian Institute of Management Bangalore ^[15]
• B. B. Chakrabarti, former finance professor at IIM Calcutta; ex Director of Indian Institute of Management Ranchi (IIM Ranchi)
• Dipesh Chakrabarty, historian ^[16]
• Ravi Dhar, George Rogers Clark Professor of Management and Marketing and Director of the Center for Customer Insights at the Yale School of Management ^[17]
• Anindya Ghose, Heinz Riehl Chair professor and Director of the Masters in Business Analytics degree program at Stern School of Business at New York University
• Dan Gode, professor at New York University
• Ramachandra Guha, historian and author
• Gita Johar, vice dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion and Meyer Feldberg Professor of Business, Columbia Business School, Columbia University ^[18]
• Ajay Kohli, Professor at Georgia Tech University
• Murali Mantrala, Professor at Kansas State University, Emeritus Professor, University of Missouri
• Krishna Palepu, professor at Harvard Business School, senior adviser to the president for Global Strategy, Harvard University ^[19]
• Vallabh Sambamurthy, Dean of the Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Chetan Sankar, Emeritus Professor of Raymond J. Harbert College of Business, Auburn University
• Mohanbir Sawhney, McCormick Tribune Professor of Technology, Kellogg School of Management ^[20]
• Venkatesh Shankar, Coleman Chair Professor of Marketing and director of research at the Center for Retailing Studies at Mays Business School at Texas A&M University
• Paul Shrivastava, David O'Brien Distinguished Professor of Sustainable Enterprise, Concordia University
• M. J. Xavier, founding director of Indian Institute of Management Ranchi ^[21]

Literature

• Swati Kaushal, novelist ^[22]
• Manreet Sodhi Someshwar, novelist ^[23]
• Amish Tripathi, novelist, author of the Shiva Trilogy ^[24]

Government, politics, and social work

• Ajay Bisaria, Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan, former Ambassador to Poland and Lithuania ^[25]
• Amolak Rattan Kohli, former Governor of Mizoram ^[26]
• Vinayak Lohani, social entrepreneur, founder of Parivaar ^[27]
• Dinesh K. Patnaik, Ambassador of India to the Kingdom of Spain and the Principality of Andorra, former Ambassador to Kingdom of Morocco and to the Kingdom of Cambodia; Deputy High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
• Krishnamurthy Subramanian, 17th Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India

Spirituality

• Swami Mukundananda, spiritual leader; bestselling author; founder of JKYog and Radha Krishna Temple, Dallas

Other

• Malli Mastan Babu, mountaineer; known for his Guinness World Record for scaling the seven summits in 172 days in 2006 ^[28]

References

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18. Gita Johar, Columbia Business School Faculty Staff Directory
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20. Mohanbir S. Sawhney
21. "IIM Ranchi gets new director from IIM Kolkata as Dr MJ Xavier steps down". www.mbauniverse.com. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
22. Rachel Donadio (19 March 2006). "The Chick-Lit Pandemic". The New York Times . Retrieved 17 January 2012.
23. Sana Amirjanu Narayan (15 June 2012). "Weaving tales around the Taj". The Hindu . Retrieved 2 September 2012.
24. "The Author". Archived from the original on 6 December 2011. Retrieved 12 December 2011.
25. "IIMC alumnus, Ajay Bisaria (PGDM 20th Batch), the new high commissioner to Pakistan hopes for better relations | IIM Calcutta". www.iimcal.ac.in. Retrieved 21 February 2018.
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27. "The Founder | Parivaar". parivaar.org. Retrieved 8 November 2017.
28. Bag, Shamik (20 September 2015). "Malli Mastan Babu: India's mountain man". livemint.com/. Retrieved 8 November 2017.