Professor Janat Shah is currently the Director of Indian Institute of Management, Udaipur. He was for twenty years professor of Production and Operations Management at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. He is also Special Professor at Nottingham University Business School (UK) in the Operations Management division. He conducts management education programmes for executives in a number of companies. Janat is an alumnus of IIT (Indian Institute of Technology), Mumbai and IIM (Indian Institute of Management), Ahmedabad.