IIM-Lucknow appoints Prof Archana Shukla as Director-in-charge

This decision was taken by Chairperson of the IIM Lucknow Board of Governors, N. Chandrasekaran.

Prof Shukla, specialises in Human Resource Management at IIML. She brings over three decades of teaching and research expertise to her role. An IIT Kanpur graduate with a PhD in Psychology, she was the inaugural chairperson of the Dr Ishwar Dayal Chair for Futuristic Issues in the Behavioral Sciences from 2015 to 2017. Additionally, Prof Shukla has authored a book, numerous papers, and several case studies in the fields of knowledge management, organizational adaptation, and organisational structure.

Established in 1984, IIM Lucknow was the fourth IIM to be established in the country, after IIM Calcutta, IIM Ahmedabad and IIM Bangalore. IIM-Lucknow was the first IIM to start a two year full time MBA programme in Sustainable Management. It also has a full-time MBA programme in Agri Business Management.