This list of IIM Calcutta alumni includes notable people who are alumni of
Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM Calcutta or IIM-C) is a public business school located in Joka, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It was the first Indian Institute of Management to be established, and has been recognized as an Institu ...
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Business
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Sunil Alagh, former MD and CEO of
Britannia Industries
Britannia Industries Limited is an Indian Multinational corporation, multinational food products company, which sells biscuits, breads and dairy products. Founded in 1892, it is one of India's oldest existing companies and currently part of t ...
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Ajit Balakrishnan
Ajit Balakrishnan is an Indian entrepreneur, business executive and administrator. He is the founder, current chairman-Emeritus of Rediff.com, an internet company based in Mumbai. He was chairman of the Board of Governors of Indian Institute of ...
, founder and
chief executive officer
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CEOs find roles in variou ...
of
Rediff.com
Rediff.com, stylized as rediff.com, is an Indian news, information, entertainment, and shopping website. Founded by Ajit Balakrishnan in 1996, it was the first Indian website to become a mainstream news media organization. It is headquartered i ...
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Ajith Balakrishnan's Blog - IIM Calcutta convocation speech - 1 April 2007 chairman of the board of governors of
IIM Calcutta
Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM Calcutta or IIM-C) is a public business school located in Joka, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It was the first Indian Institute of Management to be established, and has been recognized as an Institu ...
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Vikrant Bhargava
Vikrant Bhargava (विक्रान्त भार्गव; born 14 December 1972) is an Indian-born British businessman, and the co-founder and former marketing director of online casino operator PartyGaming.
Early life and education
Bh ...
, co-founder and group marketing director,
PartyGaming
PartyGaming plc was a network of gambling sites operated by Ruth Parasol in the Caribbean. Founded in 1997, the network eventually operated under an umbrella company called iGlobalMedia, which then changed its name to PartyGaming. PartyGaming's fl ...
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Rohit Chadda
Rohit Chadda (born 26 August 1982) is an Indian investment banker and entrepreneur, who serves as the CEO of the digital business at Essel Group ( Zee Entertainment, Zee Media and DNA). He was the co-founder of online food ordering platform Foo ...
, CEO for the digital business at Zee group (
Zee Entertainment,
Zee Media
Zee Media Corporation Limited (abbreviated as ZMCL; formerly Zee News Limited) is an Indian mass media and news broadcasting company based in Mumbai. The company is engaged mainly in the business of broadcasting news and current affairs, and re ...
and
DNA
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); co-founder of
foodpanda.com; Fortune 40 under 40
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Ashish Chauhan
Ashishkumar Chauhan is an Indian business executive and administrator who is currently the Managing Director (MD) and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Stock Exchange of India (NSE). A technocrat from IIT Bombay and IIM Calcu ...
,
managing director
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CEOs find roles in variou ...
and CEO,
Bombay Stock Exchange
BSE Limited, also known as the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), is an Indian stock exchange based in Mumbai. It is the 6th largest stock exchange in the world by total market capitalization, exceeding $5 trillion in May 2024.
Established with t ...
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Pranay Chulet
Quikr is an Indian online marketplace and classified advertising company, based in Bangalore, India. Quikr has listings in over 1000 cities in India and in categories such as mobile phones, household goods, cars, real estate, jobs, services an ...
, co-founder and CEO of
Quikr
Quikr is an Indian online marketplace and classified advertising company, based in Bangalore, India. Quikr has listings in over 1000 cities in India and in categories such as mobile phones, household goods, cars, real estate, jobs, Service (bus ...
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Sunil Duggal, chief executive officer of
Dabur
Dabur Ltd is an Indian multinational consumer goods company, founded by S. K. Burman and headquartered in Ghaziabad. It manufactures Ayurvedic products and fast-moving consumer goods. Dabur derives around 60% of its revenue from the consumer c ...
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Sanjay Gupta
Sanjay Gupta (born October 23, 1969) is an American neurosurgeon, medical reporter, and writer. He serves as associate chief of the neurosurgery service at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, associate professor of neurosurgery at ...
, country manager of
Google
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Sabyasachi Hajara
Sabyasachi Hajara (born 3 December 1952) is an Indian business executive. He was the Chairman and Managing Director of Shipping Corporation of India (SCI), the largest Indian shipping company, Mr. Hajara is the current Advisor to the Board �Ele ...
, chairman and managing director,
Shipping Corporation of India
The Shipping Corporation of India (SCI) is a public sector undertaking that operates and manages vessels servicing both national and international lines. It is under the ownership of the Government of India and under administrative control of ...
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Patu Keswani
Patu Keswani (born February 9, 1959 in Lucknow) is the Chairman and Managing Director of Lemon Tree Hotels .
Early life and education
Patu Keswani completed his education at St. Columba’s School, New Delhi. He received his bachelor's deg ...
, chairman and managing director of
Lemon Tree Hotels
Lemon Tree Hotels is an Indian hotel chain. It owns and operates 100 hotels with a total of 9700 rooms in 64 cities across India.
According to the Horwath Report, Lemon Tree Hotels is India's largest hotel chain in the mid-priced hotel sector ...
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Shantanu Khosla
Shantanu Khosla is an Indian business executive. He is the former managing director of Procter & Gamble (P&G) India. As managing director, he was the country head of P&G for India and led operations for all three P&G companies in the country: tw ...
, MD of
Procter & Gamble
The Procter & Gamble Company (P&G) is an American multinational consumer goods corporation headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was founded in 1837 by William Procter and James Gamble. It specializes in a wide range of personal health/con ...
India
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M. R. Madhavan
M. R. Madhavan is the President and co-founder of PRS Legislative Research, a public policy research institution that focuses on making the legislative process in India better informed, more transparent and participatory. PRS publishes "legislat ...
, president and co-founder of
PRS Legislative Research
PRS Legislative Research, commonly referred to as PRS, is an Indian non-profit organisation that was established in September 2005 as an independent research institute to make the Indian legislative process better informed, more transparent an ...
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P M Murty, former MD and CEO of Asian Paints
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Srinath Narasimhan, managing director and chief executive officer of
Tata Teleservices
Tata Teleservices Limited along with its subsidiary Tata Teleservices (Maharashtra) Limited is an Indian internet services provider and IT services company headquartered in Mumbai, India. It is listed on BSE and NSE in India.
History
On 13 ...
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T. V. Narendran, MD of
Tata Steel
Tata Steel Limited is an Indian multinational steel-making company headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, with its primary operations based in Jamshedpur, Jharkhand. It is a subsidiary of the Tata Group.
Formerly known as Tata Iron and Steel ...
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Indra Nooyi
Indra Nooyi (née Krishnamurthy; born October 28, 1955) is an Indian-born American business executive who was the chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of PepsiCo from 2006 to 2018.
Nooyi has consistently ranked among the world's 100 mos ...
, chairman and chief executive officer,
PepsiCo
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Yale School of Management
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IIM Calcutta - Alumni Spotlight - Indra Nooyi, new chairman and CEO of PepsiCo
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Jessie Paul, author and marketer
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Sudhakar Ram, founder and CEO of Mastek
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Sumant Sinha, founder, chairman and CEO,
ReNew Power
ReNew Energy Global plc is an Indian renewable energy company, based in Gurgaon. It is the first Indian renewable energy company to be listed on NASDAQ. ReNew operates more than 150 projects spread across ten states in India.
Formerly called ...
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Shyam Srinivasan, MD and CEO of
Federal Bank
Federal Bank Limited is an Indian private sector bank headquartered in Aluva, Kerala. The bank has 1588+ banking outlets and, 2079+ ATMs/ CDMS spread across different states in India and overseas representative offices at Abu Dhabi and Dubai.
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Nishi Vasudeva
Nishi Vasudeva (born 30 March 1956) is an Indian business executive. She is a former Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) of Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL), an Indian state-owned oil and gas corporation and India's fourth larges ...
, chairperson and managing director at
Hindustan Petroleum
Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited (HPCL) is an Indian public sector undertaking in Petroleum industry, petroleum and natural gas industry, headquartered in Mumbai. It is a subsidiary of the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC), which ...
; first woman to head a
Navratna
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PSU
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Gopal Vittal
Gopal Vittal (born 1967) is an Indian business executive. He is the Chief executive officer, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Bharti Airtel (India) and South Asia, an Indian multinational telecommunications services company with operations in 2 ...
, CEO of
Bharti Airtel
Bharti Airtel Limited is an Indian Multinational corporation, multinational Telecommunications in India, telecommunications company based in New Delhi. It operates in 18 countries across South Asia and Africa, as well as the Channel Islands. ...
(India)
Academics
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Prakash Apte, academic; professor and former director of
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIM Bangalore or IIMB) is a reputed business school and an Institute of National Importance located in Bangalore, Karnataka, India. Founded in 1973, it was chronologically the third in the first gener ...
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B. B. Chakrabarti, former
finance
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professor at IIM Calcutta; ex
Director
Director may refer to:
Literature
* ''Director'' (magazine), a British magazine
* ''The Director'' (novel), a 1971 novel by Henry Denker
* ''The Director'' (play), a 2000 play by Nancy Hasty
Music
* Director (band), an Irish rock band
* ''D ...
of
Indian Institute of Management Ranchi
The Indian Institute of Management Ranchi (IIM Ranchi) is a public business school located in Ranchi, Jharkhand, India. Established on 15 December 2009, it became India's ninth Indian Institute of Management. It commenced classes on 6 July 201 ...
(IIM Ranchi)
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Dipesh Chakrabarty
Dipesh Chakrabarty (born 1948, in Kolkata, India) is an Indian historian and leading scholar of postcolonial theory and subaltern studies. He is the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor in history at the University of Chicago, ...
, historian
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Ravi Dhar, George Rogers Clark Professor of Management and Marketing and Director of the Center for Customer Insights at the Yale School of Management
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Anindya Ghose, Heinz Riehl Chair professor and Director of the Masters in Business Analytics degree program at
Stern School of Business
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at
New York University
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Dan Gode, professor at
New York University
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Ramachandra Guha
Ramachandra "Ram" Guha (born 29 April 1958) is an Indian historian, environmentalist, writer and public intellectual whose research interests include social, political, contemporary, environmental and cricket history. He is an important autho ...
, historian and author
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Gita Johar, vice dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion and Meyer Feldberg Professor of Business,
Columbia Business School
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,
Columbia University
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* Krishna Palepu, professor at Harvard Business School
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, senior adviser to the president for Global Strategy, Harvard University
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* Vallabh Sambamurthy, Dean of the Wisconsin School of Business
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, University of Wisconsin, Madison
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* Chetan Sankar, Emeritus Professor of Raymond J. Harbert College of Business, Auburn University
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* Mohanbir Sawhney
Mohanbir Sawhney (born 1963) is a management consultant, author and academic. He is the Associate Dean, Digital Innovation at McCormick Foundation Chair of Technology, Clinical Professor of Marketing and the Director of the Center for Research ...
, McCormick Tribune Professor of Technology, Kellogg School of Management
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History
Early ...
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* Venkatesh Shankar, Coleman Chair Professor of Marketing and director of research at the Center for Retailing Studies at Mays Business School
Mays Business School is the business school at Texas A&M University. The school educates more than 7,400 undergraduate, master’s and doctoral students in accounting, finance, management, management information systems, marketing and supply cha ...
at Texas A&M University
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* Paul Shrivastava, David O'Brien Distinguished Professor of Sustainable Enterprise, Concordia University
Concordia University () is a Public university, public English-language research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1974 following the merger of Loyola College (Montreal), Loyola College and Sir George Williams Universit ...
* M. J. Xavier, founding director of Indian Institute of Management Ranchi
The Indian Institute of Management Ranchi (IIM Ranchi) is a public business school located in Ranchi, Jharkhand, India. Established on 15 December 2009, it became India's ninth Indian Institute of Management. It commenced classes on 6 July 201 ...
Literature
* Swati Kaushal
Swati Kaushal is an Indian author and the author of the five bestselling novels, ''Piece of Cake'' (2004), ''A Girl Like Me'' (2008, ''Drop Dead'' (2012), ''Lethal Spice'' (2014), and ''A Few Good Friends'' (2017). In 2013, Kaushal was nominated ...
, novelist
* Manreet Sodhi Someshwar
Manreet Sodhi Someshwar is an Indian author. She is primarily known for her novels ''The Long Walk Home'' and ''The Taj Conspiracy''.
Someshwar is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. After graduating from IIM-C, she worked i ...
, novelist
* Amish Tripathi
Amish Tripathi (born 18 October 1974) is an author, former diplomat and broadcaster from India. He is among the fastest-selling authors in Indian publishing history, known best for ''The Shiva Trilogy'' and ''Ram Chandra Series''.
His books ha ...
, novelist, author of the '' Shiva Trilogy''
Government, politics, and social work
* Ajay Bisaria, Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan
Pakistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by population, fifth-most populous country, with a population of over 241.5 million, having the Islam by country# ...
, former Ambassador to Poland
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and Lithuania
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* Amolak Rattan Kohli, former Governor
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of Mizoram
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* Vinayak Lohani, social entrepreneur, founder of Parivaar
* Dinesh K. Patnaik, Ambassador of India to the Kingdom of Spain and the Principality of Andorra, former Ambassador to Kingdom of Morocco
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and to the Kingdom of Cambodia
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; Deputy High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
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* Krishnamurthy Subramanian
Krishnamurthy Venkata Subramanian (born 5 May 1971) is an Indian economist who served as the 17th Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India. Subramanian is a leading expert on economic policy, banking and corporate governance, who was ...
, 17th Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India
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Spirituality
* Swami Mukundananda
Swami Mukundananda is a spiritual leader, Vedic scholar, author, and a teacher of spirituality, yoga and meditation from India. He is a senior disciple of Kripalu Maharaj, Jagadguru Kripaluji Maharaj and the founder of the yogic system called ...
, spiritual leader; bestselling author; founder of JKYog
Jagadguru Kripaluji Yog (JKYog) is a spiritual and charitable non-profit organization in United States. It was founded by Swami Mukundananda (in 2009), a senior disciple of Jagadguru Shree Kripaluji Maharaj. JKYog works for physical, mental, ...
and Radha Krishna Temple, Dallas
Radha Krishna Temple (RKT) of Dallas is a Hindu temple located in Allen, Texas. It was established by JKYog, under the leadership of Swami Mukundananda.
The opening ceremonies and consecration (Pratiṣṭhavidhi) were held over eight days ...
Other
* Malli Mastan Babu
Mastan Babu Malli (3 September 1974 – 24 March 2015) was an Indian mountaineer. He is best known for his 2006 world record of climbing the Seven Summits in the shortest span of time at that point - a total of 172 days with the first climb ...
, mountaineer; known for his Guinness World Record
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for scaling the seven summits
The Seven Summits are the highest mountains on each of the seven traditional continents. On 30 April 1985, Richard Bass became the first climber to reach the summit of all seven.
In January 2023, ''Climbing (magazine), Climbing'' said "Today, t ...
in 172 days in 2006
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