Dr. Ram Kumar Mishra, former Senior Professor, and Former Director, ONGC Subir Raha Chair Professor of Corporate Governance and NLCIL Chair Professor of CSR at the Institute of Public Enterprise, is a graduate of the International Management Program, SDA Bocconi, Milan, Italy.

He has been a Fellow of the British Council and Commonwealth Secretariat.

He has had research stints at London Business School and Maison Des Sciences De L’ Hommes, Paris.

He has taught at the University of Bradford, the United Kingdom, and has been a Visiting Professor at Maison Des Sciences De L’ Hommes, Paris, UN International Centre for Public/Promotional Enterprises, Slovenia, University of Technology Mara, Malaysia, Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, Sri Sri University, India and University of Johannesburg, South Africa.

He was a member of the UN Task Force on Standards of Excellence in Public Administration and Education.

He has been a Management Consultant for several organizations including DFID, Deloitte, Adam Smith Institute, ADB, and the Centre for Good Governance. He was associated with the UNDP project on Macro Economics of Poverty Reduction carried out by RBI Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Banking and Research. He was a team member of the State Fiscal Restructuring Project of the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy. He was Vice-President, the International Association of Schools and Institutes in Administration (IASIA), Brussels.

He is on the editorial boards of many international and national journals. He is on the Board of the Global Foundation for Research in Corporate Governance and has been on the panel of the Union Public Service Commission, India