Bhimaraya Metri, Director, IIM Nagpur is a distinguished academician, renowned teacher, researcher and an astute administrator. A recognized premier institution builder in management education with end-to-end expertise in the institutional lifecycle. He possesses the rare distinction of mastering both worlds: pioneering state-of-the-art greenfield campuses- including SSBS (University of Strathclyde), IIM Tiruchirappalli and IIM Nagpur, complemented by a proven track record in executing complex brownfield modernization strategies at premier institutions like MDI Gurgaon, IMI New Delhi and L&T Institute of Project Management apart from leading research programmes at BITS Pilani.

A renowned expert in the area of Project Management & Infrastructure, Quality Management and Supply Chain Management, he has numerous research papers and books to his credit apart from being on the editorial advisory boards of several national and international journals.

Currently, Dr. Metri is the Visitor (President of India) Nominee to IIT Mumbai, IIT Delhi, IIT Roorkee, IIT Jodhpur and IIM Jammu. He is also nominee of Ministry of Education, Govt of India on the Board of Governors of NIBM Pune; member of the Governing Board of IUC-TE, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi; member of the Governing Board, MARVEL, Govt of Maharashtra; member, the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), Governing Council, New Delhi (Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution, Govt. of India); Trustee of Grassroots Research and Advocacy Movement (GRAAM) Mysore and Chancellor’s Nominee on Academic Council, Gondwana University. Dr. Metri is also member of Board of Governors of CMDR Dharwad (supported by Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), Ministry of Education, Government of India and Government of Karnataka); Government College of Engineering, Karad; MGIRI (Mahatma Gandhi Institute for Rural Industrialisation) Wardha (Ministry of MSME); IIP (Indian Institute of Packaging) Mumbai (Ministry of Commerce); SDMIMD Mysore; JKLU Jaipur, AIMA New Delhi; and MEPSC, New Delhi.

Dr. Metri also serves as Chairman of the Human Resources Management and Innovation Sectional Committee and the Management & Systems Division Council (MSDC), Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), New Delhi. He is the Chairman of the AIMA Board of Studies, New Delhi, an Independent Director of the Finance Industry Development Council (FIDC). And also, a member of the Academic Advisory Committee (AAC) of the National Board of Accreditation (NBA), New Delhi; the Academic Advisory Board of L&T EduTech, Chennai; the member of the Vision Committee, Deccan College, Pune; and the International Advisory Council of Chanakya University, Bengaluru. He is the Chairman of the Council for Logistics Infrastructure and Project Management (CLIP), the IIM Nagpur Foundation for Entrepreneurship Development (InFED), and the Atal Innovation Centre (AIC), InFED, IIM Nagpur.

Dr Metri served as a member of Indian National Commission for Cooperation with UNESCO (INCCU); a member of the expert committee for establishment of Higher Education Commission of India to carry out detailed mapping of existing manpower and functions performed by UGC, AICTE, NCTE etc.; Chairman, WG-DEB, UGC, New Delhi; Honorary Advisor to TNeGA, Ministry of IT, Govt of Tamil Nadu; a member of the Appeals Committee of NAAC, Bengaluru; Member- National Management Committee, PMA, India; Member, Academic council, NIMSME, Hyderabad. He also worked as Visitor’s nominee & convener/member of the committee constituted for the selection of Vice Chancellor’s of Central Universities, other Central Govt. Universities and state universities. He also served as a Chancellor’s nominee at Sant Gadge Baba Amravati University, Maharashtra and a member of member Vision building Committee, Central University of Andhra Pradesh, Ananthapuramu (AP). He served as Chairman, All India Board of Management Studies (AICTE) and member of AICTE Executive Committee; He was on the panel of experts for mentoring the Institutes of Eminence (IoE). He has also served as a chairman/member of several committees of AICTE, UGC, NBA, UKIERI, AIU, IGNOU, IIM Kozhikode Society, Governing Council of SACON Coimbatore under the MoEFCC, Govt. of India; UERC Uttarakhand; Principal Technical Agency (PTA) for PMGSY projects for Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan; IIIC, Govt. of Kerala; Board of Governors of IIM Mumbai (formerly NITIE Mumbai), SVVV Indore, NICMAR University Pune; member board of management Symbiosis International University, Pune; member of the committee for establishment of Online University, Govt. of Maharashtra; Member, Expert Group constituted by MoE for NEP-2020 and has also served on the board of Decision Sciences Institute (DSI), Houston, Texas, USA.

Dr. Metri led the three Indian delegations to Tokyo (Japan), & Bali (Indonesia) for ISO/ TC 260 and to Amersfoort, Netherlands for ISO/ TC 251, for development of international standards. He was the chairman of the International Academic Review Committee for Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat Oman; Foreign expert for HEQAAC (UGC), Nepal; Member, ABMC Accreditation Panel, Osaka, Japan; Member, Eurasia-Pacific Uninet (EPU).

Dr. Metri was the first Indian elected as the Vice President, Asia Pacific Division, Decision Sciences Institute (DSI). He was the Chief Guest for the 55th Convocation of Shivaji University, 3rd convocation of Dr. Homi Bhabha State University; Anna University and many other engineering and management institutions in Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. He was also invited as a key Note speaker at Pan-African PMC, Cameroon and taught GMP to Mauritian Business Leaders as a visiting faculty of ESSEC Business School, Paris.

Dr. Metri has conducted leadership development programmes for more than 200 Vice-Chancellors from Central, State, and Private Universities across India. He has also conducted capacity-building programmes for over 1,000 Directors, Deans, Principals, and Heads of Departments (HODs) from leading engineering institutions, including the NITs, under the World Bank-assisted MHRD-TEQIP (I, II, III) initiative to enhance the quality of technical education in the country.

Dr. Metri is deeply involved with executive education at board, senior and middle management levels including international training with a wide range of organizations including leading organizations of government, public sector (Maharatna & Navaratna companies), private sector and foreign government bodies. He has conducted several board level and top management programs for the leading public sector organizations such as NLCIL, NUPPL, ONGC, HPCL, NRPC (CMD/ Dy CMD /IAS Officers/CEs), etc. He has trained senior executives of several leading organizations including CIL, WCL, NTPC, NHPC, PGCIL, BHEL, HCL, RBI, IOCL, CPCL, ECIL, EIL, WAPCOS, NEEPCO, SJVNL, PSEB, BEL, ATAL, NAAC, NFLP, JNVs, Sona Koyo, Fortis, Jindal Stainless Steel Ltd, PNB, CIDC, ABB, L&T, Nestle, Eli Lilly, EXL, Nova Nordisk, Lupin, Adani Group, Mazagaon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL), BIS, Epiroc, MOIL, STPI, Hindustan Copper Ltd, Hindustan Zinc, Sikkim Govt. Officers, Aditya Birla Group, DCM Shriram, Cairn Energy, Public Enterprise, Ministry of Skill Development & Entrepreneurship, DOAE (Department of Atomic Energy) Officers, Army Officers, DGR, ITEC Officers (Ministry of External Affairs) from 30 plus countries, New Holland Fiat and Ministry of Health & Family Welfare.

Dr. Metri has provided consultancy to various premier organizations such as L&T, Bosch, Titan, FDCM, NTPC, Army Ordinance Corps (AOC) Ministry of Defense, ICDDR Dhaka (Bangladesh), Credit Guarantee Fund Trust for Micro and Small Enterprises (CGTMSE), Nagpur District Strategic Plan, Department of disaster management, relief & rehabilitation, Govt. of Maharashtra etc. He has also contributed to the World Bank-assisted DAKSH Project of the Government of Maharashtra. His ongoing consultancy assignments include the strategic planning of the Nashik Kumbh Mela (2027) and the Ujjain Kumbh Mela (2028).

Globally exposed and widely travelled across four continents and 32 countries visiting B-schools, universities & industries for executive education and internationalization initiatives. Dr. Metri has led a successful national and international Accreditation & Re-accreditation program led a Curriculum Review Committee that undertook a major overhaul of the PGDM programs. He has been instrumental in enhancement of physical and intellectual infrastructure and increased the strength of PGDM programs for successfully positioning MDI Gurgaon, IMI Delhi, IIM Tiruchirappalli and IIM Nagpur amongst the leading business schools of the country.

For such illustrious contributions to the society, he has been bestowed with several prestigious awards and recognitions. Dr. Metri received the prestigious Ravi J Matthai National Fellow Award also he is the first serving IIM Director to receive the country’s prestigious AIMA-Kewal Nohria Award for Academic Leadership in Management Education. Dr. Metri also received the Distinguished Services Award by Asia Pacific Decision Sciences Institute, Dr. P. N. Singh Memorial Award for Outstanding Academic Leadership (2021), Top Director Award by CSR; Prerana Purshkar – Distinguished Alumnus Award, and Top Rankers Excellence Award for Outstanding Academic Leadership.

Dr. Metri received his Ph.D. from IIT Bombay, Powai, Mumbai. Currently, he is the President of ISDSI Global and member of the Institute of Supply Management (ISM) USA.