IIM new director

Xavier takes over as Ranchi IIM director
RANCHI : On November 8 56-year-old professor from Tamil Nadu, Dr M J Xavier, took over as the first director of Indian
Institute of Management (IIM) — Ranchi.

Before taking up his new assignment Xavier was a professor of Marketing and Director at Kotler Srinivasan Centre for Research, Great Lakes Institute of Management and an advisor to Mode, a Calcutta based marketing research firm. He is an M.Tech in Chemical Plant Engineering from REC Warangal and a Fellow of IIM Calcutta.

Xavier has more than 20 years of professional experience and he has also served as a visiting faculty to a number of business
schools around the country. He has published three books and more than 100 articles in the area of marketing. His book
Marketing in the New Millennium won the DMA-Escorts Award for the best Management Book of the Year 1999.

He has conducted numerous training programs for executives and has also been a consultant to several leading organisations.
His areas of interest include CRM, data mining, quantitative research methods and services marketing.