Key Speakers

Dr. Chandan Chowdhury

Munjal Institute for Global Manufacturing & Punj Llyod Institute for Infra. Management

Dr. Chandan Chowdhury did his MS in Mechanical Engineering and has a double Doctorate. Currently, he an Associate Dean and a Practice Professor of Operations Management and Information Systems at the Indian School of Business (ISB). He is also the Executive Director leading the (1) Munjal Institute for Global Manufacturing and the (2) Punj-Lloyd Institute for Infrastructure Management at ISB.

Prior to joining ISB, he served three top multinationals as Managing Director and Country Manager. Dr. Chandan was a CEO and Director at IFS-India. IFS (Industrial and Financial System) is a Swedish multinational listed in Stockholm focussing on enterprise applications. He was also the Country Manager at IBM-Software Group (Strategic Accounts). Prior to joining ISB, he served Dassault Systemes over 5 years, initially as a Managing Director-India and subsequently as Vice President-Global Affairs. Dassault Systemes is a European multinational operating from 140 countries with a market cap of approximately USD 22 billion.

Dr. Chandan has an excellent blend of academia and industry. During his last academic stint, Dr. Chandan was a Professor, Dean (Academy), Chairman (Board of Research) and Member (Board of Governors) at NITIE (National Institute of Industrial Engineering, established as a joint initiative between United Nations and Government of India in 1963). 

Dr. Chandan has been the recipient of numerous awards, and his special areas of interest are innovation and ‘Technology Enabled Business Transformation”. He is passionate about leveraging technology to make the world a better place to live in.