Professor M.P. Gupta takes cost as IIM Lucknow’s new director | Schooling

Professor M.P. Gupta takes cost as IIM Lucknow’s new director | Schooling

Apr 23, 2025 08:42 PM IST

A recipient of Shastri Indo-Canadian Fellowship and Greatest Professor Award at World Schooling Congress, Prof Gupta brings a future-focused imaginative and prescient for IIM Lucknow.

Professor M.P. Gupta formally assumed cost because the Director of the Indian Institute of Administration (IIM) Lucknow on Wednesday, 23 April, succeeding Prof. Archana Shukla. A seasoned educational and administrator, Professor Gupta joins IIM Lucknow from IIT Delhi, the place he held the Modi Basis Chair Professor place within the Division of Administration Research.

Prof Archana Shukla welcoming Prof MP Gupta.

With a distinguished educational journey that started with a B.Tech from HBTU Kanpur and an M.Tech and Ph.D. from IIT Delhi, Prof. Gupta has spent a long time shaping the administration training panorama. After beginning his instructing profession at IIT Roorkee, he moved to IIT Delhi in 1997 and have become a full professor in 2008. He has additionally served as Head of the Division of Administration Research (2016–19) and Dean (Planning).

In 2020, Prof. Gupta performed an necessary position in founding the Faculty of Administration & Entrepreneurship at IIT Jodhpur. He’s extensively recognized for his work in e-governance and digital transformation, with over 260 analysis publications, 38 doctoral college students guided, and several other books and volumes. His analysis works have instantly contributed to nationwide initiatives such because the Digital India and Good Metropolis applications, as per a press assertion issued by IIM Lucknow.

Prof. Gupta has additionally contributed to authorities coverage via quite a few committees and has served on the jury panels of a number of national-level ICT awards. His worldwide collaborations embody main an EU-funded venture that launched the FIWARE platform in India, now being utilized in World Financial institution–supported sensible metropolis pilots.

A recipient of the Shastri Indo-Canadian Fellowship and the Greatest Professor Award at World Schooling Congress, Prof. Gupta brings a future-focused imaginative and prescient for IIM Lucknow.

Below his management, the institute anticipates a brand new period of innovation and educational excellence.

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