Early Times Report
Jammu, Jan 24: Prof. Sudhir K. Jain, presently Professor and former Head of the Department of Management Studies, Indi-an Institute of Technology, Delhi, has been appointed as the new Vice Chancellor of the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, Katra.
As per the University's Statute, Governor Jammu and Kashmir, N. N. Vohra who is Chancellor of the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University, has appointed Prof. Jain as Vice Chan-cellor for a period of three years. Prof. Jain, born at Dholpur in 1951, did his B. Sc. from Rajasthan Univ-ersity, Jaipur, in 1970; M. A. (Economics) from Rajast-han University, Jaip-ur in 1972; and Ph. D (Applied Economics/ Econ-ometrics) from IIT, Kanpur in 1979.
Prof. Jain has served as a Lecturer, Assistant Prof-essor, Associate Professor and Professor, IIT Delhi, from March 1985 onwards. He had also served as Assistant Professor, ISEC, Bangalore, from February 1980 to February 1985 and as Assistant Director, ICSSR, from June 1979 to February 1980. He has held several administrative pos-itions during his career which include Chairman, IPR Cell, IIT Delhi, (from 2003 onwards); Chairman, Economics & Entrepren-eurship Group, DMS, IIT; and Coordinator, Inter-Disciplinary Entrep-reneu-rship Programme, IIT, Delhi. He has also served as Executive Director of the National Institute for Entrepreneurship & Small Business Development, Noida, under the Ministry of MSME.
The research areas of Prof. Jain have been Applied/Managerial Econ-omics, Entrepreneur-ship Management and In-tellectual Property Rights. His 120 research papers have been published in the reputed international and national journals as well as presented at various conferences. He has co-authored a book with Prof. H. C. Petersen and Prof. W. C. Lewis, titled "Manag-erial Economics", which was published by Pearson Education in 2006 and co-edited another book titled "Productivity & Quality: Multi-disciplinary Persp-ective" with Prof. Anurad-ha Sharma, Prof. V. Upadh-yay & Dr. Seema Sharma which was published by Tata McGraw Hill in 2005. |
