People

The Centre is directed by two world-class faculty and supported by the Aditya Birla Management Group and additional researchers.

Nirmalya Kumar
Nirmalya Kumar
Co-Director, Aditya Birla India Centre; Professor of Marketing, London Business School
Area of expertise: Passionate about building a strategic, cross-functional, and bottom-line oriented marketing function.


 Phanish Puranam
Phanish Puranam
Co-Director, Aditya Birla India Centre; Professor of Strategy and Information Management, London Business School
Area of expertise: Corporate strategy: alliances, mergers and acquisitions, outsourcing/offshoring


Suseela Yesudian-Storfjell
Executive Director, Aditya Birla India Centre

Advisory Board

Kumar Mangalam Birla, Chairman, Aditya Birla Group
Santrupt Misra, Director, Aditya Birla Management Corporation Private Ltd
Andrew Likierman, Dean, London Business School



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