Pramath Raj Sinha

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Pramath Raj Sinha, PhD

Founder & Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Ashoka University
Founding Dean, ISB
Author, An Idea Whose Time Has Come (2011) and Learn, Don’t Study (2023)

Dr. Pramath Raj Sinha is a pioneering force in Indian higher education. He is the Founder & Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Ashoka University, a premier liberal arts and sciences university pioneering interdisciplinary education and research in India. He was the Founding Dean and is a member of the Executive Board of ISB, a top ranking business school in the world. He is also the Founder of Harappa (now part of upGrad), which strives to become India’s largest online institution on teaching habits and skills critical to workplace success in the twenty-first century.

Dr. Sinha has been instrumental in setting up a wide spectrum of change-based higher education initiatives, including a first-of-its-kind postgraduate management program for women, an entrepreneurship fellowship for the Himalayan region, and a solution-focused design university for the built environment. He has also been a media entrepreneur, education consultant and management advisor at the 9.9 Group Private Limited, which he founded, and a Partner at McKinsey & Company.

In 2013, Dr. Sinha was listed as one of India's top 50 management thinkers by Thinkers50. And, in 2015, he was recognized as the 'Personality of the Year' by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) for his contributions to education.

He is an author of two books: An Idea Whose Time Has Come: The Story Of The Indian School Of Business (2011), and Learn, Don’t Study (2023).

Academics are his first love. He received a PhD and an MSE from the University of Pennsylvania, and a BTech from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, where he was honored with the Distinguished Alumnus Award in 2018. 

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Pramath Raj Sinha

Pramath Raj Sinha, PhD