Prof. Shailesh Gandhi

Prof. Shailesh Gandhi worked at IIM, Ahmedabad for 18 years and served as Dean for five years; as the Chairperson of PGP/MBA Programme for three years; as the Chairperson of the one-year MBA Programme for Executives (PGPX) for two years; and as the director of IIMA’s Dubai Branch for two years. Currently, he is a Pro Chancellor of a state-university in Gurugram.

He has several years of experience in consultancy and industry in addition to academics. The consulting areas include financial restructuring, business systems development, accounting & costing systems and corporate performance measurement. He has designed and conducted several management development programmes in China, Dubai, Egypt, India, Kuwait, Nairobi, South Africa and Thailand.

He is an independent director and a member of the audit committee on the boards of Gujarat Mineral Development Corporation(GMDC) and Paschim Gujarat Vij Co. Ltd. (PGVCL). He is a member on the board of IIM, Nagpur and the chairperson of the audit committee since March 2019. He was a member of the Cost Accounting Standards Board of the ICWAI from 2008-09 to 2016-17. He has served as an expert member in the Pension Reforms Committee and Financial Resources Committee set up by the Finance Department of the Government of Gujarat.