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Executive Director
Professor Chandan Chowdhury
Executive Director-Munjal Institute for Global Manufacturing & Punj Lloyd Institute of Infrastructure Management | Practice Professor of Operations Management and Information Systems
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Academic Director
Dr. Pratap Sriram Sundar
Academic Director - Munjal Institute for Global Manufacturing & Punj Lloyd Institute of Infrastructure Management
Pratap Sriram Sundar has more than three decades of experience as a teacher, trainer, consultant and director of a manufacturing company in operations management. He holds B. Tech (Mechanical Engineering), M. Tech (Industrial Engineering), and Ph.D (Industrial Engineering from Northeastern University, Boston). Presently, he is the Academic Director and Adjunct Professor of Operations Management at the Indian School of Business (ISB) in the Munjal Institute of Global Manufacturing (MIGM) and Punj Lloyd Institute for Infrastructure Management (PLIIM). He had worked as an assistant professor at NITIE (National Institute of Industrial Engineering), Mumbai for about eight years.
After completing his Ph.D, he worked as Customer Advocacy Manager in Paraform, a Silicon Valley company in Santa Clara, CA, and then as Director of Manufacturing in Innovation Sports, Los Angeles, CA, USA for six years before returning to India for good. Later, he offered his training and consulting services through his company Natura Consultancy Services Pvt. Ltd. in the fields of industrial engineering, manpower optimization, demand planning, scenario planning, supply chain management, lean systems design, and six-sigma. He was the Assistant Director on the Board of Adithya Automotive Applications Pvt. Ltd., Lucknow (a joint venture of TRF Ltd., Tata Capital Ltd., and Jasper Industries Pvt. Ltd.).
He authored 19 conference papers, 4 journal papers and 6 chapters in a book published in US. He was a member of the Industrial Engineering Honor Society (Alpha Pi Mu) and The Scientific Research Society (Sigma Xi). He received “Outstanding Scholarly Work” certificate from the Director of LRM (Laboratory for Responsible Manufacturing), Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA in Apr. 2000. He also received the “Best Team Performer” award from the CEO of Paraform, Inc., in Dec. 2000. He received training in the Theory of Constraints (TOC) from Dr. Eli Goldratt at Boston, and training in Axiomatic Design at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Boston, and training in Lean Aircraft Initiative at MIT, Boston, USA. He attended the NSF (National Science Foundation, Washington, DC) Workshop on “Nanotechnology” at Boston, USA. He visited more than 400 companies and had offered his services to about 50 companies in the last 35 years. He is a fervent explorer of Nature and science.
Dr. Yugal Nauhria has been Associate Director at the Munjal Institute for Global Manufacturing, Indian School of Business, Mohali, since August 2024. He holds a PhD from IIT Delhi and a postgraduate degree in Operations and Human Resource Management from IMT Ghaziabad. Dr. Nauhria was awarded the Administrator’s Gold Medal for outstanding performance among the 1998-2002 Cohort of graduating engineers at Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh.
Dr. Nauhria has over two decades of professional experience, with distinguished expertise in management consultancy, operations leadership, and strategy implementation across diverse manufacturing and service sectors. At McKinsey & Company, where he served as an advisor and consultant, Dr. Nauhria provided expert client services to prominent manufacturing industries. His work primarily focused on business transformation, EBITDA enhancement, and implementing best practices in operations and supply chain management, alongside spearheading digital transformation initiatives. During his tenure at McKinsey, he was a core member of the McKinsey Capability Centre in the manufacturing domain.
Dr. Nauhria has held leadership positions at AB InBev, Ola Cabs, and Flipkart, where he successfully led strategic initiatives to enhance business opportunities, optimize supply chains, and achieved operational excellence through innovative technologies. Notably, he was pivotal in coordinating efforts, culminating in Mahindra Swaraj Tractors's receiving the prestigious Deming Prize for excellence in total quality management.
Dr. Nauhria ’s academic contributions include three research papers published in the Global Journal of Flexible Systems Management.
