Blitz Bureau
MANMOHAN Prasad Gupta, serving as Professor at IIT Delhi, will soon become the Director of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Lucknow.
“IIM Lucknow is pleased to announce that Prof. Manmohan Prasad Gupta, currently serving as Professor at IIT Delhi, shall be taking charge as the institute’s Director shortly,” the official statement read. Prof Gupta will succeed Prof Archana Shukla.
Prof Gupta is a distinguished faculty member at the Department of Management Studies, IIT Delhi. He earned his B.Tech from Harcourt Butler Technical University (formerly Harcourt Butler Technological Institute), Kanpur. He then completed his M.Tech (1985) and Ph.D. (1990) from IIT Delhi.
Prof. Gupta began his academic career at IIT Roorkee, where he served as a Lecturer from 1990 to 1996 and as an Assistant Professor from 1996 to 1997. He joined IIT Delhi in 1997 as an Assistant Professor and has remained with the institute since then. He was promoted to Professor and has been on the HAG (Higher Administrative Grade) scale since 2017. He currently holds the Modi Foundation Chair Professorship at IIT Delhi.
