Gurugram's Great Lakes Institute of Management, a leading business school in India, announced the appointment of Dr. Jones Mathew as its new Principal and Head of Institute, succeeding Dr. Debashis Sanyal. Dr. Sanyal will now assume an advisory role and continue to mentor the institute.
Dr. Jones will spearhead the next phase of growth at Great Lakes, driving the school's efforts to establish itself as an internationally recognized center of excellence for contemporary management education and research. Before this, Dr Jones was the Program Director of Great Lakes' flagship one-year program and the Chairperson of Rankings and Accreditation at the institute. He has led the school's efforts towards successfully obtaining accreditations from NBA and AMBA (UK).
Dr. Jones has had a long and distinguished career in various academic and industry leadership roles over the past 33 years largely in the marketing domain. He holds a Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT) Delhi and comes with rich industry experience at organizations like the Hero Group, HCL Ltd, Yonex and Reebok. A member of various educational forums and editorial boards of academic journals, Dr. Jones is an international award-winning case writer published in Ivey and listed in Harvard Publishing.
Dr. Mathew’s vision for management education is one of developing socially responsible, ethically upright, future oriented manager/leaders. With his vast experience, Dr. Jones will steer Great Lakes in its next stage of growth as a premier business school.
