Prof. Trilochan Sastry

Date: 29^th Feb, 3:00 PM IST (Friday)

Dr. Trilochan Sastry is a Professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, prior to which he taught at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. An alumnus of IIT Delhi, he did an MBA from IIM-Ahmedabad and received his doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA.

As part of a rich teaching experience that spans decades and speaks of a strong oriental flavor, he has been a visiting professor at the International University of Japan, Niagata, Japan and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He has also been the Associate Dean (Research) and Professor at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad.

A true master of the several fine disciplines of the art of business administration, his superior skill set in courses as varied as operations management,quantitative methods and data structures, indicates strong mathematical undertones.

His publications include contributions to Operations Research and Supply Chain Management and highly acclaimed work in the telecommunications, software and automobile industries. He has to his credit a number of management cases on operations management, ethics, change management and electoral reforms. A multifaceted person, he adds variety to all he does, and works with a remarkable consistency in his efforts towards the fruition of his every endeavour.

This apart, Professor Sastry has been a consultant to various Indian and International corporations and has worked with ONGC in the Chairman's Office at New Delhi. He is also a Trustee of Cooperative Development Foundation, Hyderabad and the Chairman of the Association for Democratic Reforms that successfully filed and won the public interest litigation on criminalisation of politics in the Supreme Court. His true master stroke however came as the Secretary of the Centre for Collective Development, which focused on promoting small and marginal farmer Cooperatives. The Association of Indian Management Schools adjudged Professor Sastry the "Best Young Teacher" for the year 1996. He also received the "Outstanding Contribution to National Development" Award from IIT Delhi in 2005, in recognition of true national service.

To meet the unassuming Professor, who turned radical to promote an inclusive strategy to ensure the benefit of the common man, and who espoused the cause of the beleagured farmer, come over to Pragyan 08.