Dr.BhimarayaMetri,Director, IIM Tiruchirappalli is a distinguished academician, renowned teacher, notable researcher and an astute administrator. An outstanding leader of management education, he has performed key leadership roles at many premier management institutes and corporate in his remarkable career.Under his dynamic leadership,IIM Tiruchirappallihas attained a position among the league of top business schools in India. He has also contributed immensely as Dean at L& T Institute of Project Management Vadodara, IMI New Delhi, MDI Gurgaon and leading research progammes at BITS Pilani.
A renowned expert in the area of Project Management, Infrastructure & Smart Cities Management, Quality Management and Supply Chain Management, he has numerous research articles and books to his credit apart being on the editorial advisory boards of several national and international journals.
Currently, Dr.Metri is the Member of Indian National Commission for Cooperation with UNESCO (INCCU) under the chairmanship of Shri Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank’, Hon’ble Minister for Human Resource Development. He is the Head, ACITE Nominee, Expert Committee to visit various universities to ascertain the fulfilment of criteria in terms of programmes, faculty, infrastructural facilities, financial viability, etc. He is also on the panel of experts for mentoring the Institutes of Eminence (IoE) and also the Chairman, All India Board of Management studies, AICTE, New Delhi.
He is also the Chairman of Resource Management Sectional Committee of Bureau of Indian Standards, Chairman, Board of Studies, All India Management Association,New Delhi.He is also a Member of the Governing Council of Sálim Ali Centre for Ornithology and Natural History(SACON) Coimbatore under the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Govt. of India;Member, Academic Council, SantGadge Baba Amravati University and many more institutions and universities.He is also an Executive Member of Maharashtra Economic Development Council (MEDC) Global Smart Cities Panel.
Dr.Metriwas the first Indian elected as the Vice President, Asia Pacific Division, Decision Sciences Institute, (DSI), Houston, Texas, USA. Hewas leader of the two Indian delegations to Bali, Indonesia for ISO/ TC 260 and to Amersfoort, Netherlands for ISO/ TC 251, for development of international standards.He was a member of the International Academic Review Committee for Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat Oman;Member, ABMC Accreditation Panel, Osaka, Japan; Member, Eurasia-Pacific Uninet (EPU).
He has also served earlier as a member of various national committees of higher education constituted bygovernment and professional bodies. He was Chairman/member of several committees of All Indian Council for Technical Education(AICTE), National Board of Education (NBA),UK-India Education Research Initiative (UKIERI), Association of Indian Universities(AIU), Indira Gandhi National Open University(IGNOU), IIM Kozhikode Society, State Electricity Advisory Committee –Uttarakhand, Electricity Regulatory Commission (UERC), Uttarakhand, Principal Technical Agency (PTA) for Pradhan Mantri Gram SadakYojana (PMGSY) Projects of Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan,and Indian Institute of infrastructure and Construction (IIIC), Government of Kerala. He was also the Member of the committee constituted by AICTE for evolving the governance structure in AICTE approved PGDM institutions; Member of the Committee to look into the domain areas for open and distance learning courses in respect to stand alone-institutions;
Dr.Metri has trained a large number of Directors, Deans, Principals and HODs of leading Engineering Institutes including NITs under World Bank assisted project of MHRD to improve the quality of technical education in the country.He has also trained the Vice Chancellors of Central, State and deemed Universities in the country. He is profoundly involved with executive education including international training with a wide range of organizations including MNCs, leading organizations of government, public sector (Maharatna&Navaratna companies), private sector and foreign government bodies.
Dr.Metrihas provided consultancy to various premier organizations like, National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), Army Ordinance Corps (AOC), Delhi Transport Corporation (DTC), Railway Land Development Authority etc.
Widely travelled all over the world across four continents and 25 countries, he has visited a large number of Business Schools and Universities in these countries and has led a successful national and international Accreditation & Re-accreditation programme, led a Curriculum Review Committee that undertook a major overhaul of the PGDM programmes. He has been instrumental in enhancement of physical and intellectual infrastructure and increased the strength of PGDM programmes for successfully positioning MDI Gurgaon, IMI Delhi and IIM Tiruchirappalli amongst the leading Business Schools of the country.
For such illustrious contributions to the society, he has been bestowed with several prestigious awards and recognition like being awarded with the country’s prestigious AIMA-KewalNohria Award for Academic Leadership in Management Education, Distinguished Services Award by Asia Pacific Decision Sciences Institute, Top Director Award and Distinguished Alumnus Award- PreranaPurshkar, "Top Rankers Excellence Award for Outstanding Academic Leadership" by Top Rankers Management Club, New Delhi. Under his able leadership, IIM Trichy was awarded the ‘HEF Leadership & Innovation Award for the year 2020’, under the category of Business School (March 2020)
Dr.Metrireceived his Ph.D from IIT Powai, Mumbai. Dr.Metri is the member of Decision Sciences Institute (DSI) USA and Institute of Supply Management (ISM) USA.
