Manoj Kumar Tiwari (academic)

Manoj Kumar Tiwari (born 10 September 1962) is an Indian scholar and researcher in manufacturing systems and supply chain management. He is the founding and incumbent Director of the Indian Institute of Management Mumbai (IIM Mumbai).^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Manoj Kumar Tiwari FNAE, FASc, FNASc, FIISE
Prof. Manoj Kumar Tiwari, addressing the audience on Independence Day, 15 August 2025.
Director of Indian Institute of Management Mumbai
Incumbent
Assumed office 11 August 2023
Preceded by	Founding Director
Director of National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE) Mumbai
In office 5 November 2019 – 11 August 2023
Succeeded by	Position upgraded to IIM Mumbai
Acting Vice-Chancellor, Tata Institute of Social Sciences
In office 27 September 2023 – 31 July 2025
Professor, IIT Kharagpur
In office 2007–2019
Personal details
Born	(1962-09-10) September 10, 1962 (age 63) India
Nationality	Indian
Residence(s)	Mumbai, India
Alma mater	Jadavpur University (Ph.D., 2004) MNNIT Allahabad (M.Tech., 1990) VNIT Nagpur (B.E., 1986)
Profession	Professor Author Consultant
Known for	Director of IIM Mumbai; Supply Chain & Industrial Engineering
Awards	Fellow of INAE (2013) Fellow of FASc (2024) Fellow of FNASc (2019) Fellow of IISE (2018) David F. Baker Distinguished Research Award (2023) Lillian Gilbreth Award (2021) Mahalanobis Distinguished Educator Award (2017)
Website	Official Profile Google Scholar

Education

He earned his Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering from Visvesvaraya Regional Engineering College (now VNIT Nagpur) in 1986, followed by a Master of Technology in Production Engineering from Motilal Nehru Regional Engineering College (now MNNIT Allahabad) in 1990. He later completed his Ph.D. from Jadavpur University in 2004.^[2]

Awards and honours

In 2023, he received the David F. Baker Distinguished Research Award from the Institute of Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE), becoming the first scholar outside the United States to be honoured with this distinction.^[6][7] He has been elected Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE), National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI), Indian Academy of Sciences (IASc), and IISE (USA).^[8][9]

Academic career

He began his academic career in 1990 as a Lecturer at the North Eastern Regional Institute of Science and Technology (NERIST), Itanagar. In 1998, he joined the National Institute of Advanced Manufacturing Technology (then NIFFT), Ranchi. In 2007, he joined the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. He was appointed Director of the National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE), Mumbai, in 2019.^[10] In 2023, NITIE was upgraded to the Indian Institute of Management Mumbai under the Indian Institutes of Management (Amendment) Act.^{[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18]} He was also appointed Acting Vice-Chancellor of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS), Mumbai, in September 2023.^[19][20]

Publications

Tiwari has contributed as Chief Editor to the book Towards Naya Bharat and served as Convenor for the report Future Talent Requirements in Logistics – A Vision 2047 under the Ministry of Education.^[21] He is also the author of Modeling of Responsive Supply Chain (2019).^[22]