| Dr. Abad Ahmad has been Professor of Management, Dean of the Faculty of Management Studies, Director South Campus, and Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Delhi. He was Executive Director of the Management Development Institute, Gurgaon, and President of the Association of Indian Management Schools. He was visiting Professor at the Indiana University, USA, and the University of California, Los Angeles, USA.
He is an alumnus of the Harvard University and Stanford University, where he attended advanced programmes in management, and of the University of Western Ontario, Canada, where he obtained his MBA degree. He was invited to join the Department of Business Management at the Delhi School of Economics in the early sixties, where he designed and launched the MBA programme of the FMS, Delhi University. He developed the South Campus of the Delhi University where several new departments and courses in Inter-disciplinary and Applied Sciences were started, and world class research is being done in several departments.
He has done extensive consultancy assignments on Organization Development, Top Management team development, Vision building and executive development programmes for a large number of public and private sector organizations like BHEL, NTPC, PFC, ONGC, IAC, Eicher, Hughes Software, and ITC.
He has published several articles and books. His well-known books are: “Management and Organization Development”, “Developing Effective Organizations – the Indian Experience”, “Designing and Developing Organizations for Tomorrow”, and “Passion to Win – How Winning Companies Develop and Sustain Competitive Edge”, which is based on a very comprehensive empirical research on the most outstanding companies in India.
He has been a member on the Board of Directors of several corporations like LIC, DCM, TCIL, and institutions like CSIR, IMI, IIM Calcutta and IIM Lucknow. He has served on many important Committees set up by the Government, like the National Population Commission, Committee for the Development of Jammu and Kashmir, Committee on Policy Perspective for Management Education in India.
Dr. Ahmad is a founder member and Fellow of the Indian Society of Training and Development, and the Indian Society of Applied Behavioural Science. He was Chairman, All India Board of Management Education. The Association of Indian Management Schools honoured him with the award of Ravi Mathai National Fellowship for ‘Life-Time Service to Management Education’. At present he is Chairman of the Aga Khan Foundation (India), an international development agency with headquarters in Geneva. |
