Wednesday
19
August 2026
5:00 - 7:00 PM
Location
Room 019, GICT Building
Central Campus
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The Fractal Company
The Nalanda
Arindam Bhattacharya
Senior Advisor
Boston Consulting Group
Speaker
Amit Das
Professor and Senior Associate Dean
Graduate Programmes
Amrut Mody School of Management
Moderator
Speaker
Arindam Bhattacharya
Arindam Bhattacharya is a Senior Advisor at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and one of the firm's most influential thinkers on globalisation and corporate strategy. Based in New Delhi, he previously served as a Senior Partner and Managing Director at Boston Consulting Group, where he led Boston Consulting Group India for six years and was a member of the global leadership teams of the firm's Industrial Goods, Operations, Social Impact, and Public Sector practices. He is a cofounder and former director of the Boston Consulting Group Henderson Institute, Boston Consulting Group's in-house think tank, and co-led the firm's Global Advantage initiative, researching the shifting patterns of globalisation and their implications for global businesses. He is a coauthor of the 2008 book “Globality: Competing with Everyone from Everywhere for Everything,” which explored how companies from rapidly developing economies were beginning to challenge traditional global corporations, and of Boston Consulting Group's “Beyond Great,” on strategies for navigating economic nationalism and technological disruption. Dr Bhattacharya has advised India's central and state governments on industrial policy and on transforming large public systems, including state school systems in Haryana and Rajasthan, and sits on several government advisory committees, the International Advisory Council of the Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development, and the International Advisory Board of the School of Public Policy at University of California San Diego. He currently serves as an Independent Director on the boards of Bajaj Finance Limited, Bajaj Holdings & Investment Limited, Bajaj Housing Finance Limited, and Lemon Tree Hotels, and is a director at Gaja Alternative Asset Management Limited (Gaja Alternatives). He is also on the board of the Wadhwani Initiative for Sustainable Healthcare (WISH) Foundation, one of India's largest public health Non- Governmental Organisation, and chairs the Advisory Board of the Indian School of Development Management. He completed his Bachelor's degree in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, a management degree from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, and a Master's degree and Doctor of Philosophy in Manufacturing Engineering from the University of Warwick.
Moderator
Amit Das
Professor Amit Das holds a Bachelor of Technology degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Minnesota. He has three decades of experience in teaching data science and information systems at the undergraduate and graduate levels at Nanyang Technological University, Qatar University, and Krea University. During this time, he has also researched decision-making and information systems, collaborating with several organisations across the private, public, and social sectors. His research focuses on machine learning models for bankruptcy prediction and on the adoption and use of electronic government worldwide.