Institute

Meet our Director

Dr. Godwin Tennyson has a mix of academic and industry experience of more than 20 years and has been associated with IIM Tiruchirappalli since its inception as a founding faculty member, and is currently Professor in the Operations Management and Decision Sciences area.

He is a qualified Mechanical Engineer and Industrial Engineer. He began his career as a part-time Teaching Assistant at NIT Calicut and later as a part-time Research Assistant at IIT Madras while pursuing his master’s and doctoral degrees, respectively. Dr. Godwin obtained his doctoral degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and subsequently worked in the corporate sector for nearly five years as a Business Analytics and Operations Research Consultant with Kantar Millward Brown Analytics (formerly Marketing and Planning Systems) and Blue Yonder (formerly JDA Software), before joining IIM Tiruchirappalli. He has been trained by Harvard Business School in case pedagogy and by the UK-India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI) in academic leadership.