Dr. Selvam Jesiah is Professor of Management, and Principal at the Faculty of Management Sciences, Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research (a Category I Deemed to be University), Chennai. He is an active member in major committees of the university including University Development Council, Curriculum Committee and Academic Advisory Council. Dr. Selvam served as the Dean (Academic) at Xavier Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship (XIME), and preceding to this, he worked as the Director, Indian Academy School of Management Studies, both institutions in Bangalore, and the Dean in DoMS, Francis Xavier Engineering College, Tirunelveli. He has been a trained NAAC Assessor since 2013.
Dr. Selvam, who is a University Gold Medalist and a recipient of QCI Reward for the best monograph, contributed immensely to the Education Capacity Building programs of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) missioned for the establishment of Business Schools and Higher education capacity building programs at the Sub-Saharan Africa. During his assignments in Africa, he also worked for AIDS/HIV Prevention Awareness Programme and involved in education to the decommissioned soldiers post Eritrea-Ethiopia War.
Dr. Selvam has published about 40 research articles in the internationally and nationally reputed journals including “Bridging the gap: Using CNHRI to align migration health research priorities in India” In Journal of Global Health, Patients’ awareness of their rights: A cross-sectional study exploring the Indian perspective” in National Medical Journal of India, “Economic Reforms and its Impacts in Ethiopia” published in African Development Review, Blackwell publishers, Oxford besides published articles in the newspapers such as The Hindu, Deccan Herald, Eritrean Herald and Ethiopian Herald. Two books to his credit, “Privatization of Public Sector Undertakings: Experimentation Abroad” as a reference book for policy makers and a highly sought-after book in the Indian Parliament library and his second book on “Fundamentals of Knowledgement” is widely marketed on Amazon and Flipkart. His recent contribution as a chapter entitled, “Reinventing leadership, work culture and career management in response to changing business in the COVID-19 era and beyond: Indian Perspectives” published in Bloomsbury publication. He also presented many papers of management and public policy in various international conferences of premier institutions including Ethiopian Economic Association, IIM(B), IIM (Indore), ISB Hyderabad and IISc, Bangalore. He authored a manual, Governance Version 0.1, which provides lucid guidelines as to how to administer educational institutions in a most effective manner.
QCI Award for the Monograph tilted, Open Book Examination in Higher Education in India
AHMP Marketing Summit, Chennai
Awarded for the outstanding marketing education programs during the ASMA Higher Education and Summit 2023, IIT M Research Park
