Kolkata:
Kulbhushan Balooni has been appointed as the
director of the Indian Institute of Management Kashipur. Prof. K. N. Badhani, Director handed-over the directorship in an official ceremony to Prof. Balooni on June 10, 2019.
Prior to joining
IIM Kashipur, he was a professor of Economics at
IIM Kozhikode. He was a director,
IIM Kozhikode during 2014-18. He was also involved in instituting IIM Amritsar as mentor director.
Prof. Balooni undertook post-doctoral research at University of Tokyo and doctoral research at the RBI Endowment Unit, Institute of Rural Management Anand. He has been a visiting faculty to National University of Singapore, University of Copenhagen, Wageningen University and Uppsala University.
Speaking to the press, Prof Balooni said that he would strive hard to make IIM Kashipur a prominent business school in India.