Dr.
Mrityunjay Athreya
Email: athreyamb@gmail.com Tel: +91-11-26277865, 2627 2154
1.
Management
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Dr. Mrityunjay Athreya has been a founder and pioneer in Indian management
education. He joined the faculty of the
Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata, as early as 1967. The IIM-Kolkata along with IIM-Ahmedabad was
one of the two first Institutes of Management set up by the Government of
India, in 1962.
Dr. Athreya was one of the outstanding members of the IIM faculty, much
sought after by Public and Private enterprises as a Trainer and
Consultant. Since 1967, over the last
more than four decades, he has advised enterprises in several sectors, such as
Oil & Gas; Power; Fertilizers; Steel; Automobiles; Banking; Insurance; IT;
Health etc. By the decade of the 1980’s,
his name became synonymous with management in India. He has been an icon of Management to several
generations of Indian Managers; Management Teachers; Trainers; Consultants; and
students.
2.
Management
Mission
Dr. Athreya chose Management as his life mission, early in his academic
career. He returned from the US, in
1967, with a Doctorate in Business Administration from the world leader, the
Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Before Harvard, Dr. Athreya also studied at
the Stanford Business School, California, USA.
Thus he had the benefit of the two best Management schools in the
US. He brought this intellectual capital
immediately to India. He was not for a
moment tempted to stay on for a lucrative career, in the US. He was very clear that his karma bhoomi
was Bharat. Before proceeding to the US,
with full scholarship aid, Dr. Athreya had acquired a first degree in
Statistics from Loyola College, University of Madras, Chennai. He is also a qualified Cost Accountant, with
all India First Rank and Gold Medals in both the Intermediate and Final
Examinations of the Institute of Cost Accountants.
3.
Government
Committees
Dr. Athreya has served on many Government policy Committees. The best known is the 1991 Athreya Committee
on Indian Telecom Restructuring. He chaired
the Committee. Its distinguished members
included Dr. Sam Patroda; Mr. N Vittal, IAS; Dr. V. Krishnamurthy; late Mr. M.
R. Pai, Consumer Activist; and other very senior professionals. Over the years, the Committee’s
recommendations have been implemented, leading to a cell phone-based revolution
in rural-urban connectivity; and applications in entertainment, health,
shopping, travel, etc. and many other sectors.
It has been the most successful reform of any Infrastructure Sector of
the Indian economy, as compared to Power, Transportation, Ports, Airports and
others.
While he was a young professor at IIM, Kolkata, Dr. Athreya was invited by
Dr. Karan Singh, then Civil Aviation Minister, to be on the Committee to
Restructure Indian Airlines, in 1971, along with Dr. Vijay Kelkar and
others.
He was a member of the Committee to Restructure State Enterprises of the
Jammu & Kashmir state government, in 1972.
He has been on several other Committees, including on Coal; Civil
Aviation; and Civilian Nuclear Power. He
was, for two terms, member of the RBI Committee for selection of top executives
in public sector banks, along with Dr. C. Rangarajan; Dr. Montek Singh
Ahluwalia; Dr. YVR Reddy; and others.
4.
Trade
& Industry
Dr. Athreya has been the preferred educator and consultant in Management
for Public and private sectors. He was the
youngest Director of the Advanced Management Programme for Indian CEO’s, held
annually, by the All Indian Management Association, in Srinagar, J&K. His first such AMP was in 1968, at the age of
27. He has also spoken at many
Conferences of the apex national Chambers of Commerce --- FICCI, CII and
ASSOCHAM. In the course of his intense
travels on Management teaching work, through the length and breadth of the
country, Dr. Athreya has spoken at the Regional and State level branches of the
above three apex chambers.
Dr. Athreya’s consulting work has evolved through several phases, along
with reforms of the Indian economy.
Initially, in the 1970’s, the MNC’s already present in India, like ITC
and Levers were more receptive to Management, and called upon his
expertise. In the 1980’s, many PSUs like
IOC, ONGC, BHEL, SAIL, HMT, HAL, NFL embarked on Strategic Planning,
Organisation Development and HRD, with Dr. Athreya’s help. In the 1990’s Indian Private Sector, Family
and Entrepreneurial Groups were also his clients.
5.
Globalization
Dr. Athreya went abroad on sabbatical leave from the IIM-Kolkata in the
1970’s. Having already learned about
American Management in the 1960’s, he chose to learn about European Management,
in the 1970’s. He was a Visiting
Professor at the London Business School, England; and a Chair Professor, at the
young age of 34, at the Strathclyde Business School, in Scotland. With these bases he travelled extensively on
training and consulting into the Continent.
He returned to India, enriched with this additional learning. This has enabled him to help many Indian
companies globalize, through increasing their exports; overseas operations;
foreign investments; M&A; global procurement, etc.
6.
NGO
Sector
Dr. Athreya has also contributed to the NGO sector. He brought modern management ideas, with
suitable adaptations, to the non-profit sector.
He was Founder-President of Sampradaan, The Indian Centre for
Philanthropy, whose Mission is to recreate a caring and sharing society,
through good giving. He has been a
speaker in many NGO Conferences concerned with inclusive development; health;
forestry; disabled; senior citizens and other vulnerable sections.
7.
Thought
Leadership
Dr. Athreya has been an anchor resource person for several all-India
knowledge-based Professional organizations.
He has been elected Fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants;
All India Management Association; National HRD Network; and Indian Society for
Training and Development. He has
delivered innumerable Keynote; Inaugural; Convocation; Valedictory; and Special
Addresses in National and International Conferences; Conventions; Summits
etc. In 1996, he was invited to deliver
the Gandhi Memorial Lecture at the University of Kenya, Nairobi. He has been honoured with several
awards. In 2013 he was given the Life
Time Contribution Award, by Dr. Shashi Tharoor, HRD Minister, GoI, on behalf of
Thinkers50 India. He has been a Role
Model and Mentor for thousands of Indian Managers; Strategic Planners; HRD
Professionals; and Consultants in the Corporate and Social sectors.
Honours
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Hoover Fellow, Stanford Business School,
1964-65.
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Ford Fellow, Harvard Business School, 1965-67.
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Elected Fellow, All India Management
Association, 1982.
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Fellow, Indian Society for Training and
Development, 1984.
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Fellow, Human Resources Development Network,
1989.
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Fellow, the Institute of Management
Consultants of India (IMCI), 1995.
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Fellow, Institute of Cost and Works
Accountants of India
- Keynote, Inaugural, Valedictory and Plenary
speaker in several national and international professional conferences and
convocations. Papers presented.
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Delivered the Gandhi Memorial Lecture at
Nairobi, July 1996.
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Keynote at the Millennium Alumni Conference,
IIM, Ahmedabad, Dec 2000.
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Talk to the International Institute of
Finance, New York, Conference on Asian Infrastructure, Hong Kong, 1992.
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Keynote at the UN Regional Conference of the
Aged, 2003.
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Keynote at the International Training
Conference, IFTDO, 2004.
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Lifetime Achievement Award, Thinkers50 India, 2013
- Padma Bhushan Award by Government of India, 2014.
- Icon of the Year Award by Institute of Cost Accountants of India, Kolkata, 2014
- Similar several events in later years.
- Padma Bhushan Award by Government of India, 2014.
- Icon of the Year Award by Institute of Cost Accountants of India, Kolkata, 2014
- Similar several events in later years.
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