Yoginder K Alagh, born February 14, 1939, Chakwal (India) is currently Chancellor, Nagaland University, Chairman, Institute of Rural Development and Vice Chairman of Sardar Patel Institute of Economic and Social Research, Ahmedabad. He is a Trustee of the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation. He is an Independent Director of Tata Chemicals and Shree Cements. He was earlier Minister of Power and for Planning & Programme Implementation with additional charge of the Ministry of Science & Technology. He has been Member, Planning Commission (in the rank of Minister of State). He has been Chairman, Bureau of Industrial Costs and Prices, Ministry of Industry and Secretary to the Government of India. He holds a Doctoral Degree in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and Master`s Degree in the same subject from that University and the University of Rajasthan. He has taught Economics at the University of Rajasthan, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, University of Jodhpur, Swarthmore College and the University of Pennsylvania. He has seven books and over a hundred articles to his credit published both at home and abroad. He has been Chairman Agricultural Prices Commission of India, Director, Sardar Patel Institute of Economic and Social Research, Ahmedabad, Adviser to the Planning Commission of India and Chairman of the Economic Group of Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. He has travelled widely and represented India in a number of high level official delegations and seminars. He was Member of the Council, United Nations University and also Chairman, Scientific Steering Committee of the International Social Science Programme of UNESCO. He was President of Gujarat Economic Association, Member, India Council of Social Science Research, President, Indian Econometric Society, and Indian Society of Labour Economics, Member of University Senates at Jodhpur, Vallabh Vidyanagar, Ahmedabad, and on the governing bodies of the International Institute of Labour Studies, Geneva, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta and the Giri Institute of Development Studies of which he is currently Chairman. He has been Chairman / member of a number of official committees at the State / National level and is currently Chairman of a Committee to reposition the CACP after WTO and a Committee on fertisliser price reform. He has been awarded the VKRV Rao Award in Economics for 1981. Prior to the charges as the Union Minister of State (Independent Charge), he was Vice Chancellor, Jawaharlal Nehru University and was Senior Fellow, World Institute of Development Economic Research, United Nations University, Helsinki. He was the Coordinator for South Asia Technology Network of the Commission of European Communities at Brussels, Vice Chairman, State Planning Commission of Gujarat in the rank of Minister and Special Adviser to the Secretary General of the UN (RIO) Conference on Environment and Development. He is President of the Human Development Institute and Shirdi Sai Rural Institute, Loni. He chaired the Expert Group of Cauvery Dispute, constituted by the Prime Minister of India, and was Consultant to the Mekong River Commission. He has been Senior Adviser Consultant to FAO, UNFPA, ILO, ESCAP World Bank and UNDP and Visiting Professor at the prestigous Sc.PO of Paris in 1995, Distinguished Fullbright Lecture in the U.S in 1994 and Shastri Lecturer in Canada in 2000. He is,Senior Fellow of CIGI in Canada, Fellow, National Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Delhi and the World Innovation Foundation, UK. He writes a coloumn for the Indian Express on agriculture and rural development.

Currently Advisor to Adani Group. Prior to joining Adani Group, he was Director of IIM, Ahmedabad. Dr. Dholakia is a Gold Medalist from Baroda University and he has a Doctorate in Economics. He has 39 years of professional experience including 33 years at IIM, Ahmedabad. During the course of his long tenure at IIM Ahmedabad, Dr. Dholakia occupied the Reserve Bank of India Chair from 1992 to 1999, served as the Dean from 1998 to 2001 and as the Director of the Institute from 2002 to 2007. He had earlier served as the Chairman of MBA Programme and also as the Chairman of Economics Area. He has received the Best Professor Award for his teaching in the Post-Graduate Programme at IIMA. He has guided 17 Ph.D students specialising in Economics, Finance, Business Policy and Public Systems at IIMA. He has been a consultant to various national and international organizations. Dr. Dholakia has been a major motivator and a guiding force behind the numerous initiatives & expansion of activities at IIMA. His vision and strategic leadership have contributed to IIMA’s enhanced international image and global recognition. He is widely recognized for his contribution to Management Education in India. His achievements in institution building have been nationally and internationally acclaimed. In 2007, Dr. Dholakia was awarded Padma Shri by the Government of India in recognition of his distinguished services in the field of education. In 2006, he was honoured by the Association of Indian Americans in North America (AIANA) at the World Gujarati Conference in New Jersey for his Visionary Leadership and Achievements in business education. In 2005 & 2008, Dr. Dholakia was rated as one of the most powerful personalities of Gujarat by media groups. Global Associations of Business Schools have also honoured Dr. Bakul Dholakia for his sterling contribution in the field of management education. The Global Foundation for Management Education (GFME), jointly formed by the Associations of American and European Business Schools, has nominated Dr. Bakul Dholakia as a Member of the Board of GFME representing Asia. In 2008, Dr. Dholakia was conferred the coveted Bharat Asmita National Award for his contribution to management education and teaching by the Hon’be Chief Justice of India, at a special ceremony organized by MAEER’s MIT School of Government at Pune.

Ph.D, 1970 (Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, U.S.A.) Director General, TALEEM Research Foundation, Ahmedabad and Vice Chancellor of Himgiri Nabh Vishwavidyalaya, Dehradun, formerly Director, Mudra Institute of Communication, Ahmedabad. An international communication expert and was the project leader for SITE social evaluation. He has widely traveled and lectured in various universities in the United States of America, Canada, Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, Philippines, United Kingdom, Singapore and has been visiting professor in the universities in India and Dowling College, Oakdale, Long Island, N.Y and Weber State University, Ogden, Utah.