Jitendra Kumar Das

Dr. Jitendra Das, Director, FORE School of Management, New Delhi since 2010 and Director General from November 2022, was a Professor of Marketing and the founder Dean (Noida Campus) of the IIM Lucknow. With a B.Tech. and M.Tech. both from the IIT Delhi, he obtained his Ph.D. degree from the University of Toronto, Canada with 'Management Science (applied to forest products)' as the Major Area and 'Econometrics' as the Minor Area (obtaining “A” category grades in all courses taken as a requirement for the Ph.D. degree). He was also a recipient of the most coveted Connaught Fellowship of the University of Toronto for three years - the maximum years it is given. He also completed a Summer Program Certificate in 2003 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA titled "Individual Choice Behavior: Theory and Application of Discrete Choice Analysis to Consumer Demand and Market Share".

In his total 41 years of experience, he worked for two years in Urea-Ammonia Plant/ Sulfuric Acid-Fertilizer consulting firm, in line with his Chemical Engineering degree, before pursuing M.Tech. (Management & Systems) from IIT Delhi. Thereafter he worked for WIPRO Ltd. in their sales/marketing team for about four years before moving into academics in 1987. In 1998 he completed his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto. During his academic years he has been a consultant to the World Bank, IDRC (Canada), GWB (for GTZ Germany), Coal India Ltd., GlobeCast India (a division of France Telecom), various ministries of the Government of India, etc. and member of a few policy committees of the Government of India. In academics, he has been associated with teaching courses at IIMs at Ahmedabad, Kozhikode and Lucknow, SP Jain Management Center, Singapore and at Danube Business School, Danube University Krems, Austria.