Debashis Chatterjee

PROF. DEBASHIS CHATTERJEE has taught leadership classes at Harvard University and at the Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) of Calcutta, Lucknow and Kozhikode for nearly three decades. The longest-serving director of a
first-generation IIM, he was reappointed to
head IIM Kozhikode for a third five-year term in
June 2023. Prof. Chatterjee has been awarded
the prestigious Fulbright Fellowship twice for
pre-doctoral and postdoctoral work at Harvard
University. A prolific author, he has published
fiction and non-fiction, including Leading
Consciously, Krishna: The 7th Sense and
Timeless Leadership, which have been translated into several national and international languages. He has taught the art and practice
of leadership to more than 1,00,000 managers
globally in Fortune 500 corporations and over
50,000 school leaders. Prof. Chatterjee is
credited with transforming a small-town
B-school into an institution of global recognition
that is now counted among the top three IIMs
in India and the top seventy-five management
schools worldwide according to the Financial
Times rankings.

Find him on www.debchat.com and
linkedin.com/in/debashischatterjee1