PROF. BISWAJEET PATTANAYAK APPOINTED AS
MEMBER OF COURT OF GURU GHASIDAS VISHWAVIDYALAYA
BY PRESIDENT OF INDIA
Internationally acclaimed educationist and Founder & Director of ace B-school Asian School of Business Management (ASBM) Professor (Dr.) Biswajeet Pattanayak has been nominated by Hon’ble President of India as the member of the Court, the Highest Body of Governance, of the Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Chhattisgarh, for a term of three years, for his exemplary contribution to management education. This has been issued by a letter from Ministry of Human Resource Development; Department of Higher Education.
Popularly known as the Lagaan Professor for introducing the movie first time to the classrooms of IIMs and Board rooms of several leading corporate houses, Prof. (Dr) Pattanayak was recently appointed as the member of the first Court, the Highest Body of Governance, of the Central University of Rajasthan.
Prof. (Dr.) Pattanayak’s contributions have been recognized by most of the management academies around the world through membership and fellowship and he has been honoured with many national and international awards. He is the recipient of “Dewang Mehta Award for Best Professor in HRM by Dewang Mehta Foundation”, “Career Award by Ministry of HRD”, “Deccan Herald for Best Teacher in Management,” and “Rashtriya Shiksha Ratan Award” of AIBDA, New Delhi etc.
It may be noted that, Prof. (Dr) Pattanayak has achieved the rare distinction having been placed among the Top 100 Educators in the World, 2008 by IBC, Cambridge, England.
He has more than 83 Research Publications in National and International referred Journals and 21 books to his credit and has presented a number of papers and also Chaired sessions both in National and International Conferences. Professor Pattanayak – a man of principles and passionate promoter of creativity and commitment – has worked in different coveted positions like as Professor in “IIM, Indore & Lucknow” and Director of RBI Institution “Indian Institute of Bank Management (IIBM), Guwahati”, etc.
Dr. Pattanayak has been honoured for his pioneer work through citation in ‘Reference India’, ‘Indo-European who’s who’, ‘Asian-American who’s who’, ‘Asia Pacific who’s who’, ‘World who’s who’, ‘Biography International’ and ‘Asia – Men and women of achievement’.