IIM Ahmedabad director Ashish Nanda steps down citing personal reasons

He'll serve till September 1, 2017, a year before his term is to end

The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A)'s first international faculty director Ashish Nanda has stepped down from the post with effect from September 1, 2017, exactly a year before his term ends. Nanda cited personal reasons, including long distance between him and his immediate family, in his resignation letter to IIM-A Board of Governors (BoG) chairman and Aditya Birla Group chairman Kumar Mangalam Birla.

An alumnus of IIM-A from the 1983 batch, Nanda was a Robert Braucher Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School and later a Harvard Business School faculty member, before he took charge on September 2, 2013.

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