Kumar Mangalam Birla, the 49-year-old chairman of $41 billion industrial conglomerate Aditya Birla Group, is all set to take over the reigns as chairman of the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM-A).
The premier B-school has been without a regular chairman since January, when the previous chairman A M Naik, CMD of L&T, resigned citing “paucity of time”.
Though the Union HRD ministry is yet to make an official announcement on Birla’s selection, his name was confirmed to DH by Pankaj Patel, CMD of the Zydus Cadila group and head of the three-member search panel set up to look for a new IIM-A chairman. Patel has also been holding charge as the interim chairman of the IIM-A board currently.
The selection of Birla as the new chairman of the IIM-A board was also confirmed by another person close to the business tycoon, on condition of anonymity.
Published 22 October 2016, 19:49 IST