Dr Harivansh Chaturvedi is a distinguished management educator of the country who is currently Director General of IILM, New Delhi and Pro Chancellor, IILM University, Greater Noida. For almost 25 years (1999-2024), he has been the Director of BIMTECH, Greater Noida, a leading private sector BSchool established by B K Birla Group. Dr Chaturvedi is also the Founder Trustee & Chairman, Advisory Committee of Education Promotion Society for India (EPSI). He has more than 50 years of experience in Indian Higher Education. He has been Director at AICTE, a statutory body under the Ministry of Education, Government of India.

Being a renowned management educationist, he has been deeply involved with national bodies like EPSI, AIMA, NHRDN, AIMS, UNGCNI and the Indian Management Conclave (IMC). Dr Chaturvedi is on the Board of Governors of several prominent universities and higher education institutions. He has authored and published eight books on higher education and socio-economic issues. In 2025, AIMS has conferred him Ravi J Mathai National Fellow Award. This is most prestigious award in Indian Management Education which has been given to luminaries like Prof. Ishwar Dayal, Prof. Ramaswami P Aiyar, Fr E Abraham and Dr Pritam Singh etc.

Qualifications/Education

• Ph.D. in Business Management, Agra University, 1984
• M.Com, Agra University, 1976
• B.Com, Agra University, 1974

Professional Experience

• 47 years’ experience in in teaching, research and academic administration.

Research Interests

• Rural Marketing
• Higher Education Reforms, Accreditation, Ranking, Quality Insurance, Business Ethics etc

Publications

• India Insurance Report – Transforming India Insurance Series – 11, 2023
• The New Normal: Challenges of Managing Business, Social and Ecological Challenges in the Post COVID 19 Era (Bloomsbury India, 2021)
• The New Normal: Reinventing Professional Life and Familial Bonding in the Post COVID 19 Era – Part 2 (Bloomsbury India, 2021)
• Quality, Accreditation, and Ranking – A Silent Revolution is in the Offing in Indian Higher Education (Bloomsbury, 2019)
• Transforming Indian Higher Education, (Bloomsbury, 2015)
• Dynamics of Underdevelopment of Uttar Pradesh, (Bloomsbury, 2012)
• WTO, Intellectual Property Rights and Branding, (Har Anand, 2007)
• Indian Insurance Report, (Allied Publishers, 2003)
• Multinational, Drugs Industry & Social Responsibility, (Commonwealth Publication, 1990)

Awards and Recognitions

• Life Time Achievement Award of ASMA, ASMA, 2018
• Life Time Achievement Award, Brij Kala Kendra, New Delhi 2022
• Best Director Award, Top Rankers, New Delhi 2018
• Innovative Bschool Director Award of DNA, Newspapers, Mumbai, 2019
• MSM & UPUEA Kautiliya Award – 2014

Professional Memberships

• AIMA, NHRDN, AIMS, UNGCNI, EPSI