University Leadership

Mr. Shikhar Malhotra

• Pro Chancellor

Shikhar Malhotra is the Executive Director and Board Member of the $8.1 billion enterprise, HCL Corporation.   

Shikhar is also the Vice Chairman of HCL Healthcare. HCL Healthcare began operations in 2014 in Delhi and he has led the organization since inception. HCL Healthcare focuses on making Corporate India a healthier place by providing the continuum of care for chronic and acute diseases across a range of healthcare delivery offerings. It operates out of 7 cities pan India and serves over 70,000 families.

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Col. Gopal Karunakaran (Retd.)

• President

Col. Gopal Karunakaran is the President of Shiv Nadar University. An M.Phil. and a Masters from Madras University, he began his journey in the education sector in the year 2008. Gopal graduated from the Jawaharlal University in 1980. He has spent 30 years in the Indian Army. He was posted in the insurgency region of Kashmir for 10 years, six months of which were spent in the Siachen Glacier, the highest military post in the world. 

While with the Indian Army, he was chosen for the United Nations Mission in Kuwait and worked in a multicultural environment. 

Gopal began his journey outside uniform in 2008 in the Education sector. His belief in education as a tool for social transformation has driven him to absorb rich and diverse experiences across all facets of school education including policy, academic leadership, operations and business. It has helped him gain important perspectives on the key features that drive the education sector in India. 

He has been a member of the National Committee of Education of the Confederation of Indian Industries since 2008 and was part of the team which formulated draft proposals to the Government on the Right to Education Act. 

He has been the CEO of Shiv Nadar Schools since August 2014.

Apart from being an obsessive reader, Gopal is an eloquent public speaker, an ardent sport person, and still believes he can play competitively at 59.

Dr. Shubhro Sen

• Director, School of Management and Entrepreneurship (SoME)
• Director, School of Executive Education and Professional Development (SoEEPD)

Dr. Shubhro Sen is the Founding Director of School of Extended Education and Professional Development (SEEPD), and the current Director of School of Management and Entrepreneurship (SME).  He joined the Shiv Nadar University on August 10, 2015.

Prior to joining Shiv Nadar University, Dr. Sen has worked as a Director at the Tata Management Training center, Tata Group. He has taught undergraduates and MBAs at the University of Illinois; Urbana – Champaign; Santa Clara University; The Haas School of Business; University of California, Berkeley; Northeastern University; Bentley University and the Carroll School of Management, Boston College.

Dr. Sen has served as an Advisor to the Government of India on education and leadership development; served on the Agarwal Committee of the Human Resource Development (HRD) Ministry; Advisor to the President’s Office, University of South Florida; the Wales Development Authority; the UKTI as well as the Governments of Singapore and the Czech Republic.

Dr. Sen has a Ph.D. in Marketing and Strategic Management from the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.

He has conducted numerous seminar and executive education workshops in the U.S., Europe, India and Singapore. He has co-founded and led multiple U.S. and India based start-ups through commercialization and / or market exits. Having a strong track record in organizational building; business development; marketing and global alliance management including the negotiation of worldwide agreements with major multinationals; Dr. Sen has a consulting and advisory services portfolio of more than 50 global corporations; his practice areas include Leadership development; Enterprise sourcing strategies and execution; Brand and enterprise marketing strategy; Risk management and Decision support technologies.

Dr. Sandeep Sen

• Director, School of Engineering (SoE)
• Professor, Computer Sc. & Engineering

Prof. Sandeep Sen joined Shiv Nadar University as Director, School of Engineering, on May 16, 2019. Prof. Sen did his Ph.D. (1989) in Computer Science from Duke University, M.S. (1986) in Computer Engineering from University of California at Santa Barbara, and B.Tech. (1984) in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Kharagpur. He worked with Bell Labs, Murray Hill, in 1990-91.

He has been a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Delhi, since 1991. His research interests are in the area of Algorithms and Complexity; and in particular, Randomized Algorithms, Parallel Computation, Computational Geometry, Dynamic Data Structures etc. 

Prof. Sen has held the Dhananjay Chair Professor and the Microsoft Chair Professor in IIT-Delhi. He has been a Visiting Researcher/ Faculty in notable institutions in India and abroad. He is a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, and also of the Indian National Science Academy. He shouldered the responsibility of heading his Department during 2007-10; and served as the Dean of Faculty of IIT-Delhi during 2016-18.

Dr. J.P. Gupta

• Dean, Graduate Studies; Distinguished Professor, Chemical Engineering, School of Engineering (SoE)

Dr. J.P. Gupta joined the Shiv Nadar University on December 12, 2016, as the Dean of Graduate Studies and Distinguished Professor in the School of Engineering (SoE).

Prior to this, Dr. Gupta has had a wide range of professional experience - as the Founding Director General of Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, Gandhinagar; Founding Director of Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology, Raebareli (under the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas) and as the advisor to the United Nations Development Programme, Argentina. He was deputed by the Government of India as a Diplomat for Science and Technology at the Embassy of India, Washington D.C. Dr. Gupta has taught at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT- Kanpur) from 1973 to 2010 and has served as a member of the board of Governors for two years. He has also served as the visiting Professor at Universities such as the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico; the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Texas A&M University, Texas; Loughborough University, Leicestershire; National Yunlin University of Science and Technology (YunTech), Douliu City; and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines d'Alès (EMA), France.

Dr. Gupta has degrees in Chemical Engineering- B.Tech. from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT- Kanpur); MSE from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. 

His research interests include Heat Transfer, Process Intensification, Inherently Safer Design, Energy, and Higher Education.

Major General G Jaishankar (Retd.)

• Dean Student Affairs

Major General G Jaishankar joined Shiv Nadar University in March 2019 as Dean, Student Welfare. He is an ex-NDA officer, commissioned into the infantry in June 1981. He has commanded a brigade and a division at high altitude on very active portions of the India-China border. He has commanded two infantry battalions in Kashmir in intense operations as well.

Jai has held a number of assignments, dealing with foreign governments and agencies. Before retiring from the Indian Army, he served as the head of the Indian Army's International Co-operation Department, building rapport and carrying out inter-ministerial coordination. Prior to this, he was Commandant of the Indian Military Training Team in Bhutan from December 2015 to May 2018, including during the Doklam crisis. He has also served as the Defence Attache at the Indian Embassy in Beijing from 2008-2011. Jai is an expert on China, he can speak, read and write in the Chinese language.

He has served as director, UN Peacekeeping at Army HQ, responsible for planning, preparation, training, and deployment of around 10,000 personnel in active peacekeeping missions. He was a UN Military observer (Rwanda) in 1995-96 for stabilization operations, post-genocide in 1994, working with several UN agencies and NGOs, dealing in healthcare, refugee management and human rights.

Besides all his Army qualifications, he holds a B.Sc. degree from Jawaharlal Nehru University, M.Sc. from Madras University and an M.Phil. in defence and strategic studies from University of Mumbai. 
 

Mr. Sudhir Naudiyal

• Registrar

Mr. Sudhir Naudiyal joined the Shiv Nadar University on March 2, 2015 as the Registrar.

Prior to joining the University, Mr. Naudiyal worked at Ansal University, Gurgaon, where he played an important role in a Government of India initiative training scheme under NEEM (National Employability Enhancement Mission); a skill development initiative to provide on-the-job training to unemployed youth. He worked in the capacity of Joint Registrar, and then as an Officiating Registrar for four years before he joined the Shiv Nadar University. Mr. Naudiyal has also worked with the Sushant School of Art & Architecture for over 22 years in various capacities including Human Resources; Administration; Legal; Finance & Accounts.

Mr. Naudiyal has a professional Law degree and a post-graduate degree in Commerce and Education Management. He has proven expertise in handling complex issues involved in running educational institutions, especially related to statutory approval process and compliances within the legal framework, covering all aspects of academic administration.

Mr. Anil Kumar Nair

• Director, Admissions

Mr. Anil Kumar Nair is the Director of Admissions at Shiv Nadar University.

He is responsible for establishing and executing a merit-based admissions process that provides equal opportunity to every aspirant committed to learning and finding his/her place in the University.

Mr. Nair has over 21 Year of experience in the education and training domains including K12, higher education, vocational training, and skill development.

During his stint in distinguished organizations such as Citi Bank, NIIT, EC-Council, and TATA BSS, he has managed various roles in operation management, customer acquisition, product management, go-to-market strategy functions, and institutional alliances.

Mr. Nair's comes with an international experience of around 10 years where he was managing operations for NIIT-China and NIIT-South Africa. He was leading a number of initiatives such as skill development, enterprise learning solution, channel partner management, business development, and university alliances. He has also worked in delivery and client relationship management areas.

Mr. Nair holds a Bachelor's degree in Commerce(H) from Delhi University and has a Post Graduate Diploma in Computer Application.

Mr. Alok Sharma

• Head, Finance

Mr. Alok Sharma is the head of finance at Shiv Nadar University.

He is responsible for managing finance at the university, including but not limited to, monitoring inflows and outflows, management reporting, establishing financial processes and controls, and compliances of various regulations.

Mr. Sharma has over 14 years of experience in various industries like education, IT, pharma. and FMCG in various verticals of finance like financial planning, M&A, fund raising, project management, etc.

During his stint in distinguished organizations such as HCL, Ranbaxy, Bharti-Walmart, and Infosys, he has managed various roles in operation finance, corporate planning, financial management, and mergers & acquisitions.

Mr. Sharma is a qualified chartered accountant from The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and holds a bachelor's degree in commerce from the University of Rajasthan.

Mr. Ashish Mittal

• Head, Human Resources

Mr. Ashish Mittal joined the Shiv Nadar University as the Head - Human Resources in the Department of Human Resources in President’s Office, on June 14, 2016. 

Prior to Joining the University, Mr. Mittal has worked with eminent companies such as Pearson, Manipal International University (Malaysia), Infosys BPO & the Akshaya Patra Foundation in various positions; and has over 18 years of experience in the field of Human Resources.

He holds a Bachelors degree in Business Management from Christ College; MBA from ITM, Southern New Hampshire University, U.S. and a HR certification from Indian Institute of Management (IIM - Bangalore).