This page will give you an overview of the faculty at IIM Nagpur, including the director, Professor Bhimaraya Metri, and important faculty members, including Prof. Ankita Dash of the Economics and Social Sciences and Dr Atul Arun Pathak of Strategy and Entrepreneurship. The key faculty member list, their strengths, academic profiles, specialisations and their teaching approach.

The IIM Nagpur Faculty forms the academic backbone of the Indian Institute of Management Nagpur. The IIM Nagpur  Faculty team is led by Director Professor Bhimaraya Metri, who places a strong emphasis on successful research, industry collaboration, and innovative courses.

IIM Nagpur Director & Faculty Details 

Here are the IIM Nagpur Faculty details

• Director– The IIM Nagpur is led by Professor Bhimaraya Metri, who places a strong emphasis on successful research, industry collaboration, and innovative courses.

• Full-time Faculty–IIM Nagpur’s total full-time faculty body comprises approximately 41 members, including professors across core management areas. 

• Academic Areas Covered – Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Economics and Social Sciences, Finance & Accounting, Marketing, Decision Sciences, OB & HRM and Production & Operations Management are among the fields represented by faculty members.

• Visiting/Adjunct Faculty–IIM Nagpur engages industry professionals and visiting faculty in addition to its core staff to enhance campus education. 

• Faculty Engagement– The academic presence of IIM Nagpur is boosted by the faculty's frequent publication of research and cases as well as their participation in national and international conferences.

IIM Nagpur Key Faculty Member List

Rakesh Gupta – Rakesh Gupta is a professor in the area of Strategy and Entrepreneurship and teaches courses in the field of strategy & entrepreneurship. He has a PhD in strategic entrepreneurship from the Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), Delhi University. 

Dr Atul Arun Pathak – Dr Atul Arun Pathak is a faculty member in the Strategy and Entrepreneurship area at IIM Nagpur. He has over 23 years of international work experience across industry and academia.

Dr Sathyajit Gubbi –Dr. Sathyajit Gubbi is a teacher of strategy and entrepreneurship at the Indian Institute of Management, Nagpur. He completed his doctorate in strategic management from IIM Calcutta.

Ankita Dash –Prof. Ankita Dash is a teacer of  Economics and Social Sciences department at IIM Nagpur. Prof. Dash has completed a PhD in Management - Economics and Social Sciences from IIM Bangalore. She also has an MS degree in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park (USA).

Tanushree Haldar – Tanushree Haldar is an assistant professor in the Economics area at IIM Nagpur. She is a fellow from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore in the economics and social science area. She also has an M. Phil. in Applied Economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University (CDS, JNU), besides a master's degree in Economics from Visva Bharati University.

Deeparghya Mukherjee – Prof. Deeparghya Mukherjee is a teacher of economics at IIM Nagpur. International trade and investment agreements, services trade and the economics of outsourcing and IT integration in India are among his areas of interest in both teaching and research.

Gunjan Tomar – Gunjan Tomer is a faculty member in the Information Systems area at IIM Nagpur. She graduated from IIM Indore with a PhD in information systems. She was previously engaged with IIM Raipur as an assistant professor.

Kapil Kaushik – Kapil is a faculty member in the area of Decision Science & Information Systems at IIM Nagpur. He graduated from IIM-Indore with an FPM in information systems management. Text mining, data analytics, and marketing analytics are among his areas of interest as a teacher.

Dr Sujeet K. Sharma – Dr Sujeet K. Sharma is Dean (Research & PhD Programs) and Professor in the ‘Decision Science & Information Systems’ area at the Indian Institute of Management, Nagpur. For over 23 years, Dr Sharma has taught in Bahrain, Oman and India.

Hema Gwalani – Dr Hema is a faculty member of IIM Nagpur who teaches Finance & Accounting to IIM Nagpur students. Dr Hema brings over a decade of academic experience, including eight years post-Ph.D.

Prashant Gupta –Dr. Prashant Gupta had previously worked at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Trichy before joining as a professor of finance and accounting at the Indian Institute of Management, Nagpur.

Nilesh Gupta –Professor Nilesh Gupta teaches in the Finance and Accounting Area at IIM Nagpur. Nilesh got his B. Tech (Electronics) from Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University. He got his FPM (PhD) from IIM Ahmedabad and taught at IIM Trichy for over five years

Anoop Kumar –Prof Anoop Kumar is a teacher of  Public Policy & Governance at IIM Nagpur. After graduating, he had his post-graduation in Political Science from Allahabad University with M. Phil. PhD (international politics) from the School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi

Ranjitha GP – Prof Ranjitha is an Assistant Professor with the Marketing Department at IIM Nagpur. She is PhD from IIM Kozhikode and has taught at Central University of Karnataka and Prin. Welingkar Institute of Management Development and Research, Bangalore

Varsha Khandker – Prof. Varsha Khandker is a faculty member in the area of Marketing. She holds a doctoral degree from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. Before joining IIM Nagpur, she had worked as faculty at T A Pai Management Institute, Manipal.

Neha Garg – Neha Garg is an Assistant Professor in the area of Organisational Behaviour & Human Resource Management at IIM Nagpur. She has done her PhD from the Indian Institute of Management Raipur in the organisational behaviour & human resource management area.

Devashis Rath – Prof. Devashis Rath is a teacher of Practice in the area of organisational behaviour and Human Resource Management, at IIM Nagpur. He did his fellowship from MDI, Gurgaon. Apart from a master's degree in personnel management and labour welfare, he has a bachelor's degree in economics and law from Utkal University in Odisha.

Aditya Kumar Sahu – Dr Aditya Kumar Sahu teaches at the Indian Institute of Management, Nagpur, in the area of Production & Operations Management. He has earlier served at IIM Rohtak for close to four years before joining the present Institute.

Nikunj Kumar Jain – Prof. Nikunj Kumar Jain is an Associate Professor teaching Production and Operations Management at IIM Nagpur. He did his B. Tech (Electrical Engg) at MANIT, Bhopal and Fellow Program in Management (PhD) from IIM Indore.

Deepmala Baghel – Dr Deepmala Baghel is a faculty member in the area of Humanities, Arts, and social sciences. At IIM Nagpur. Her highest qualification is a PhD in Sociology (Innovation and Entrepreneurship) and she also has an M. Phil. in Planning and Development, both from IIT Bombay.

Shailendra Nigam – Prof Shailendra Nigam teaches in the area of HASS and is an academic administrator trained at IIM Ahmedabad.

Highlights of IIM Nagpur Faculty Strengths

• Experienced Leadership–The leadership of the IIM in Nagpur is represented by its Director, who is assisted by an experienced faculty involving Prof. Bhimaraya Metri.

• All-Around Expertise– Faculty-level experts focusing on all domains of management.

• Academically Equipped– Most of the professors are PhD/ FPM from premier institutes in India and abroad, which creates a robust academic base.

• Faculty Commitment towards Research– Faculty members are actively seeking avenues to publish articles for research and case development in order to present at conferences.