IIMA dean Prof Jajoo to step down

After four years, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA) will get a new dean. Prof BH Jajoo, who was appointed dean in 2008, has announced that September 30 is his last day in the post.

Serving as dean-institute for four years makes Prof Jajoo the longest serving dean at the premier B-school.  Officials at IIMA said that while three years is the fixed tenure for any dean, he was given an extension of a year in September 2012 as he is considered to be very close to the current director Prof Samir Barua.

Incidentally, Prof Jajoo will be the second dean at IIMA who will be vacating the post. Earlier, another visiting professor from IIT-Bombay who was given charge of dean-alumni and external relations, Prof Atanu Ghosh, also completed his tenure.

Prof Ghosh, also considered to be close to Prof Barua, went back to his parent institute IIT- Bombay.  Both the deans’ terms came to an end just before Prof Barua’s five-year term is set to come to a close in October-end.

Speaking to DNA, Prof Jajoo confirmed that September is his last month as dean. “I will continue being a faculty at IIM-A for the next one-and-a- half years till my retirement. During my tenure as dean-institute- IIMA has achieved much,” he said.

PGP has been well ranked in ‘Financial Times’ and PGPX has also won acclaim. Also, many infrastructure projects were taken up - building 320-room dome complex, expansion of PGP batch from 280 to 430 students and building the new sports complex, to name a few, he added.

The current dean for faculty Prof Ajay Pandey will be officiating dean-institute. The new dean will be appointed by the new director when he takes over sometime in November.