Mrityunjay Athreya

Mrityunjay Athreya is an Indian author, educationist and management advisor, widely regarded as one of the founders and pioneers of Indian Management movement and education. A former professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, the London Business School and the Strathclyde Business School, Scotland, and a known speaker at various international forums, he is the founder of Sampradaan Indian Centre for Philanthropy, a non-profit non governmental organization, serving as a platform for charity initiatives by high-net-worth individuals.

Biography

Mritunjay Athreya was born in 1941, in Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu to T.A. Balasundaram Iyer and Narayani Ammal. He was one of six sons and three daughters of his parents. They were of the Athreya Gotra, which would later be added to the name. His mother was of Bharadwaj Gotra from a clan that traced their lineage to Neelakanta Dikshitar. The young Mrityunjay was a bright student and graduated in Statistics from the Loyola College, University of Madras and followed it with the Cost Accountant qualification offered by the Institute of Cost Accountants of India (previously the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India) (ICWAI) with first rank and gold medal. He also qualified with the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, UK.

Pursuing his career as a management advisor, he currently lives in the Indian capital of New Delhi.

Career Indeed, the civil society has to create and sustain governance mechanisms to supervise the state and business, says Dr. Mrityunjay Atreya, and make them its servants, and not its masters.

Athreya has also been involved with many other committees, involved with the Reserve Bank of India, the Ministries of Coal and Civil Aviation and Nuclear power. He has also worked with C. Rangarajan, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, and Y. V. R. Reddy.

Awards and recognitions Padma Bhushan - 2014 "Bhishma Pitamaha of Indian HR" by NHRDN and NDIM, New Delhi, 2021 "Dharma Pracharak" by Sri Jagadguru Shankaracharya of Sringeri, 2021 "Icon of the Year Award" by Institute of Cost Accountants of India, Kolkata, 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award, Thinkers50 India, 2013

He has also been recognized with various fellowships. Fellow, Human Resources Development Network (HRD Network) Fellow, Indian Society for Training and Development (ISTD)

Works