Dr. Bhaskar Chatterjee is presently the Director General and CEO of the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs. This Institute is an autonomous organization established by the Indian Ministry of Corporate Affairs and is intended to function as a capacity-building institution and a think-tank for knowledge development/ dissemination and for rendering policy advice to the Government of India on issues relating to Corporate Affairs. Dr. Chatterjee graduated from Hindu College, Delhi and did his Post graduation in History from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University. Thereafter, he completed his MBA from the All India Management Association. He received his M. Phil from the Indian Institute of Public Administration in 1989-90 and his Doctorate from the Chitkara University in 2011.

He joined the Indian Civil Service in 1975 and has held many distinguished positions. In 2008-09, he was Principal Adviser in the Planning Commission. Here he was deeply involved with a number of micro and macro-economic measures. He was also a part of the team responsible for shaping India’s response to the global economic crisis of 2009.

As Additional Secretary, Ministry of Rural Development, in 2006-08, he was associated with the complete overhaul of the National Rehabilitation and Resettlement Policy of India. Earlier (2004-06) he functioned as Principal Secretary, Steel and Mines in the State Government of Orissa. Here he was part of the core team that negotiated the single biggest Foreign Direct Investment in India with the South Korean Steel Giant, POSCO. The POSCO steel and port complex will come up in Coastal Orissa with a projected investment of Rs. 51,000 crores or US $ 51 billion.

Before this, he made significant contributions to higher education as Member Secretary of the Indian Council of Social Science Research (2001-2004) and to the advancement of Literacy as Director General of the National Literacy Mission (1995-2000). For his outstanding work in the field of literacy, he was presented with the UNESCO NOMA Award by the President of India in 1999.

He has presented several papers and articles on education and management and has made significant contributions to the Dang Committee set up by the Steel Ministry in 2006 and the Hoda Committee on the mining sector set up by the Planning Commission in 2007.

As Secretary in the Department of Public Enterprises, he was leading reform and change among Indian State Owned Enterprises laying special emphasis on Corporate Governance, revitalization of the MOU system, Human Resource Management, Sustainable Development and Corporate Social Responsibility.

Mr. Chatterjee is also a widely acclaimed management practitioner, theorist and teacher. He has written and lectured over many years on issues of motivation and team building. In 1990, he authored his first book – a path breaking work entitled Japanese Management – Maruti and the Indian Experience. Thereafter, he wrote his now famous Human Resource Management – A Contemporary Text which has gone into its fourth revised and enlarged edition in 2009.

Most recently, his widely acclaimed book, Leadership India – Leading Change, Changing Lives, was released at the World HRD Congress in February, 2011.