Prof. (Dr.) Santanu Roy is currently serving as the Director, ICFAI Business School (IBS), the ICFAI University, Dehradun, India. Dr. Santanu Roy is a Chartered Member, Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport (CILT), United Kingdom. He is a Ph.D., Industrial Engineering & Management, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur and holds an M.S. Degree in Physics from IIT Delhi. Dr. Roy was a recipient of National Science Talent Search Scholarship in the year 1975 securing an All India Rank of 180.
Prior to joining IBS Dehradun, Dr. Roy had served as Professor and Dean, School of Business and Economics, Adamas University, Kolkata and earlier as Professor and Dean, School of Management, IMS Unison University, Dehradun. Previously, he had worked as a Professor and Program Chair at the Institute of Management Technology (IMT) Ghaziabad (for 7 years) and at IMT Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) for a period close to 8.5 years. Even earlier, he had served as an Associate Professor at Vinod Gupta School of Management, IIT Kharagpur. Prior to
joining Academics, Dr. Roy had served as the Senior Principal Scientist and Head, Human Resource Group, and Member, Management Committee (MC) at CSIR-NISTADS (now known as CSIR-NIScPR), Government of India, New Delhi, a place he had served for more than 22 years.
Dr. Roy is a Member of the Executive Committee of the Association of Supply Chain Professionals (ASCP). He has been a Corporate Trainer for companies such as HINDALCO Industries Limited, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) and Central Public Works Department (CPWD) in India, and for companies such as the Landmark Group, Choithrams, and Redington Gulf FZE, in Dubai, UAE.
Dr. Roy was an ERASMUS MUNDAS Teaching Fellow (European Commission) at Fontys University of Applied Sciences, Eindhoven, the Netherlands and had taught at prestigious international institutions such as BITS, Dubai, UAE and Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Dubai, UAE.
Dr. Roy received the Best Teacher in Operations Management Award at Asia’s Best B-School Awards, Singapore, 22nd July 2011. He was a recipient of Best Paper Awards at prestigious International Conferences such as 14th International Entrepreneurship Forum (IEF) Conference, 16th -18th September 2015, Cape Town, South Africa, and 35th Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE) Conference, 7th -8th November 2012, Dublin, Ireland.
Dr. Roy has served as a Session Chair in prestigious International Conferences such as EURO 2024: 33rd European Conference on Operational Research, The Association of European Operational Research Societies and Danish Operations Research Society, 30th June to 3rd July 2024, Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Copenhagen, Denmark; IFORS 2021: 22nd Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies, 22nd to 27th August 2021, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea; and IAMOT 2004: 13th International Conference on Management of Technology, International Association of Management of Technology, 3rd to 7th April 2004, Washington, D.C., United States of America.
