| Dr Vivek Bhandari | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 4, 1970 |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Known for | Director of Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA) |
Dr Vivek Bhandari was the 11th Director Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA), a premier management school located in India. Dr Bhandari led the institute from May 2007 until May 2011. He was one the youngest business school directors in India when he took over this responsibility. In his tenure, IRMA grew significantly in size and stature, and was able to impact policy at the national level. As a result, the institute also received national and international recognitions under his leadership, most notably from the Canadian agency, the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), as well as ministries in the Government of India.
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Born on March 4, 1970, Prof. Bhandari is an alumnus of St. Stephen’s College, Delhi, and the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA. He did his BA (Honors) in History from St. Stephen’s College, and then a Master’s in Modern History from the University of Delhi. He went on to do a second Master’s in South Asian Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and proceeded to complete his PhD in History from the same university.[1]
After completing his education, Prof. Bhandari became a tenured faculty member in the School of Social Science at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA, in the USA. In this capacity, he also taught and researched collaboratively at academic institutions in the prestigious Five College Consortium (which includes Amherst College, Smith College, Mount Holyoke College, and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst) located in Massachusetts, USA.
In his 19 years of teaching and research, he has published extensively in the fields of comparative history, international political economy, historical sociology, cultural studies and peace studies. His writings have appeared in journals like the Journal of Asian Studies, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East, in edited volumes, and reference works such as the International Encyclopedia for the Social Sciences, and the Encyclopedia of Modern Asia.[2]
He is a co-author of the “State of Panchayats Report: An Independent Assessment, 2007-08,” India’s first macro-study of institutions of local self-governance in India (called panchayats), and has a particular interest in the study of social and community mobilizations in India.
Prof. Bhandari was selected as one of India's Top Twenty-Five 'Hottest Young Executives' by Business Today magazine in 2008. [3]