The mission and the implementation of Great Lakes' goals are guided by some of the most outstanding and accomplished individuals in India and abroad who will serve on the Academic Advisory Council.

Dr. Bala .V. Balachandran
Chairman, Academic Advisory Council and Founder & Honorary Dean Great Lakes Institute of Management

Other Members

Dr. Gadi Ariav		Dr. V. S. Arunachalam
Associate Professor of Management Information Systems, The Leon Recanati School of Business Administration, Tel Aviv University; Director, The Georges Leven High-Tech Management School, Tel Aviv, Israel		Former Scientific Advisor to Prime Minister and Defence Minister, Distinguished Services Professor, Carnegie-Mellon University, USA
Dr. Yair M. Babad		Dr. Sudhakar V. Balachandran
Professor, Department of Information and Decision Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA;		Assistant Professor of Accounting, Columbia Business School
Ms. Rama Bijapurkar		Dr. Bala Chakravarthy
Consultant, Mumbai, India		Professor of Strategy & International Management, International Institute for Management Development (IMD), Switzerland
Dr. Sunil Chopra		Prof. Aswath Damodaran
IBM Distinguished Professor of Operations Management & Information Systems, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA		Professor of Finance, Leonard Stern School of Business
Dr. N. Jayashankaran		Dr. S. P. Kothari
Vice-Chancellor, Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Vishwa Mahavidyalaya, Kanchipuram , India		Gordon Y Billard Professor of Accounting, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management, Boston , Massachusetts , USA
Dr. Lakshman Krishnamurthi		Dr. Philip Kotler
Chaiman and Montgomery Ward Professor of Marketing, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University		S.C. Johnson & Son Distinguished Professor of International Marketing, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Dr. B. Mahadevan		Dr. Rajnish Mehra
Professor of Operations Management, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore , India		Professor of Finance, Department of Economics, University of Santa Barbara , California , USA
Prof. Nandu Nagarajan		Mr. Mohan Nair
Professor of Business Administration, Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburg, USA		Sr. Vice President, Marketing, The Regence Group, USA
Dr. V. G. Narayanan		Dr. Paul Prabhaker
Associate Professor of Management Accounting, Harvard Business School, Soldiers Field, Boston, Harvard University , Cambridge , Massachusetts , USA		Associate Dean and Professor of Marketing, College of Business, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, Illinois , USA
Dr. Srinivasan Raghunathan		Dr. Raghuram Rajan
Associate Professor of Management Information Systems, School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, USA		Joseph L Gidwitz Professor of Finance, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Dr. Ram T. S. Ramakrishnan		Dr. Keshavamurthy Ramamurthy
Department of Accounting, University of Illinois at Chicago, Illinois, USA		Professor, Management Information Systems, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee , Wisconsin, USA
Dr. V. Kasturi Rangan		Dr. Hayagreeva Rao
Malcolm P McNair Professor of Marketing, Harvard Business School , Harvard University , Cambridge , Massachusetts , USA		Professor of Organizational Behavior; Director of the Human Resource Executive Program, Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Dr. Suresh P Sethi		Dr. Konduru Sivaramakrishnan
Director of Center for Intelligent Supply Networks, University of Texas, Dallas, USA		Bauer Endowed Chair of Accounting, C T Bauer College of Business, University of Houston, Texas, US
Dr. K. K. Srinivasan		Dr. Jitendra V Singh
Founder President of two e-com ventures; Former faculty of Georgia Institute of Technology, CompuCredit Corporation, Atlanta , Georgia , USA		Saul P Steinberg Professor of Management and Vice-Dean of International Academic Affairs, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Prof. Marti G. Subrahmanyam		Dr. Seenu V. Srinivasan
Charles E Merrill Professor of Economics and Finance at the Leonard N Stern School of Business , New York University		Adams Distinguished Professor of Management and Director of the Strategic Marketing Management Executive Program, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford , California , USA
Dr. Swaminathan Sridharan		Dr. Shyam Sunder
Associate Professor of Accounting and Information Systems, Department of Accounting Information & Management, Kellogg School of Management		James L Frank Professor of Accounting, Economics & Finance, School of Management, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Dr. Asher Tishler		Dr. Krishnamurthy Surysekar
Associate Professor of Economics & Director of Executive MBA Program, The Leon Recanati Graduate School of Business Administration, Tel Aviv University, The Georges Leven High Tech Management School, Tel Aviv, Israel		Assistant Professor of Accounting, School of Accounting , Florida International University, Miami , Florida , USA
Dr. Nirmal Gupta		Dr. M. B. Athreya
Visiting Faculty at ISB		Sri Sringeri Sharada Institute of Management, New Delhi, India
Dr. M. S. Krishnan		Dr. Srikant M Datar
Area Chairman and Professor of Business Information Technology, Co-Director Center for Global Resource Leverage: India, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan		Professor of Business Administration, Senior Associate Dean, Chair, Executive Education, Harvard Business School Boston, MA
Dr. Finn E Kydland		Prof. S. Ramachander
Henley Professor of Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara		Mangement Educator and Consultant
Dr. Rakesh Singh		Dr. Lakshmanan Shivakumar
Consultant		Associate Professor of Accounting, Accounting Group, London Business School