The Chairperson of the IIM Lucknow Board of Governors, N. Chandrasekaran, has appointed Prof Archana Shukla as director-in-charge of IIM Lucknow with effect from 4 April till a regular director is appointed. Prof. Shukla is the senior most Professor at IIM Lucknow and her appointment is as per Clause (9) of IIM Act 2017.
Prof. Shukla, a distinguished faculty member specializing in Human Resource Management at IIM Lucknow, brings over three decades of invaluable teaching and research expertise to her role. An IIT Kanpur graduate with a Ph.D. 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 organizational structure.
Indian Institute of Management Lucknow, established in 1984, is the fourth in the prestigious IIM family of management schools to be established in India after IIM Calcutta, IIM Ahmedabad and IIM Bangalore. In 2005, IIM Lucknow expanded its area of influence in the realm of management education by becoming the first IIM to set up a satellite campus exclusively for Executive Education at NOIDA in Delhi NCR region.