Prof. Prem Vrat
Chairman, BoG
Professor Prem Vrat is the Chairman Board of Governors of Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad and held additional charge as Chairman BOG of IIT Mandi (30-10-2020 to 25-8-2023). An outstanding academic, Prof. Prem Vrat, is the Pro-Chancellor; Professor of Eminence and Chief Mentor at The NorthCap University, (ITMU earlier) Gurugram. Just prior to joining ITMU as the Vice-Chancellor, in September 2011, he was Professor of Eminence at the MDI, Gurugram. Prof. Vrat was Founder-Director, IIT Roorkee; Vice-Chancellor, U.P. Technical University, Lucknow; Professor; Head Centre for Management Studies, Coordinator Applied Systems Research Program, Dean, Dy. Director and Director (Officiating) at IIT Delhi; Professor and Division Chairman at the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok. He is an Honorary Professor at IIT Delhi and was Distinguished Adjunct Professor at AIT, Bangkok. He was Chairman, Board of Governors of WIT, Dehradun. He was an AICTE- Distinguished Chair Professor. He was the first alumnus of IIT Kharagpur to have become an IIT Director. He was Honorary Research Fellow at the Department of Engineering Production, University of Birmingham, UK and International Visiting Fellow at the University of Western Sydney, Australia and has visited 22 countries. He has been teaching, conducting research and offering consulting for the past 56 years. He received a National Merit Scholarship.
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