IIHMR University

Rahul Ghai is the Dean at the School of Development Studies, IIHMR University. He is an experienced Researcher and Faculty with skills and passion for research in challenging eco fragile and conflict and disaster-ridden regions, research industry, and academic institutions. He has teaching experience and is a guide to all his students.

What are the key factors that keep you connected with the education sector? 

“The capability to motivate the youth for doing their best for themselves and the Country”

Opportunities to keep connected with the younger generation and facilitating knowledge and professional action for positive transformation in society. The capability to inspire all the students for their careers and help them move towards the path to success. To be able to guide students at every hurdle in their career.

What is your philosophy of leadership? How would you describe your leadership style? 

“Participative leadership and cooperative decision making are the steps we follow”

Student-led classroom and faculty-led SDS is the way we do things here. We give space to each other and collaborate where possible. So, my task is to be a facilitator and I try to be ably available to all for joint action.

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How does the Curriculum School of Development Studies, IIHMR University ensure the best practice of industry? 

“Preparing students to be industry-ready through particular associations with several firms”

  • The curriculum seeks to engage with the transforming realities of India in the 21st century. The complexities of new emerging realities beckon us to focus on expanding pathways of a rural urban continuum instead of clinging too steadfastly to nomenclatures of ‘Rural’ and ‘Urban’ as frozen normative types.
  • The field is diverse hence is open to people from varied educational backgrounds, skill sets, and work experience. 
  • Almost half the course is made of field learning segments that take the student out of the classroom to engage with organizational and institutional contexts of a rapidly transforming India. 

Any insights into how your university could be more welcoming to students of different races or economic backgrounds?

“We promote backward students to step towards equality and create unity in diversity” 

IIHMR University in collaboration with Bharat Rural Livelihoods Foundation, MoRD, Government of India, is implementing a co- sponsorship program to attract bright tribal students to the MBA program. This is a unique initiative and has produced encouraging results. This learning would help us in making management education of a cutting-edge quality accessible to marginal and disadvantageous sections of our society. 

What would you like people to know about your university they may not know? 

“Achievement of self-conscious optimization of living and learning experience at the institute”

IIHMR University is among the best examples of institutional and civic architecture. The institutional landscape won the prestigious Aga Khan Award for Institutional Architecture. Simply put this architectural representation means bringing forth a built environment with a balance of visual and tactile dimensions celebrating vernacular culture and at the same time having discreet recourse to the universal technique of modern construction. With more than 58 species of birds inhabiting these 15 acres of eco space, the unique ecology of the IIHMR University offers a vivacious co-learning eco system.

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Any suggestions you would like to give to the current youth and the aspiring students? 

“Phasing out the problems by accepting the new normal of Covid 19”

The invisible virus has managed to strike deep at the roots of ‘modern’ notions of work and the entire lexicon of industrial production and the complex web of organizational systems that constitute modern capitalism. 

In the corona engulfed context, we are indeed passing through momentous times. A new normal is being recalibrated. The present times makes it incumbent that we engage with societal dimensions of care and compassion that are needed more than ever. For development professionals, this is such an important time when their foremost societal commitment is to engage with fellow humans for lessening suffering.