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Biography

Dr. Manisha Mishra is Professor in the OB&HR area and Vice Dean-Academic Affairs at Jindal 91ÊÓƵ Business School (JGBS), 91ÊÓƵ. She has been associated with JGBS since 2013, progressing from Assistant Professor to Professor while taking on successive leadership responsibilities before assuming her present role in January 2024.

As Vice Dean-Academic Affairs, Prof. Mishra leads the Office of Academic Affairs, a team of thirty members comprising the portfolio Deans of OAA, Programme Deans, Area Chairs and members of the JGBS executive office. She oversees the full academic lifecycle of the School, including academic planning, faculty teaching credit and course allocation, programme design and delivery, elective bidding, timetabling, internal and external examinations, and graduation. Prof. Mishra chairs the Curriculum Management Committee, with responsibility for benchmarking, revising and designing programme curricula in alignment with the best of international business and management education. She chairs the School's Scholarship Committee and Student Affairs Committees as well. A central focus of her stewardship has been the alignment of JGBS's academic policies, student support frameworks, curriculum and pedagogy with AACSB standards; she served as Standard Owner for Standard 4 (Curriculum) on the School's AACSB Committee and has contributed to its ISER and progress reports as well as to AACSB-focused faculty development at JGBS. Over the years she has also contributed to the University's NAAC, QS Ranking and Institution of Eminence task forces, the University's Research Ethics and Review Board, the University Disciplinary Committee and the Disability Support Committee.

Prof. Mishra teaches core and elective courses across undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral programmes, including People Management, Organizational Behaviour, and Principles of Management; electives on Cross-Cultural Management, Diversity and Inclusion Management, Employee Engagement, International Human Resource Management, Organizational Change and Transformation, and Strategic Human Resource Management; and Organization Theory and Organizational Change & Development at the doctoral level. She has designed, developed and delivered online courses on Managing People & Organizations and Leadership Essentials for JGBS's online MBA–BA programme with Coursera, and teaches Organizational Behaviour and People Management for JGBS's online MBA programmes with upGrad. Her research interests span diversity and inclusion management, exclusion practices and their impact in higher education, academic role burden and the well-being of teachers, and the vision, mission and diversity statements of Indian companies. She has published book chapters and cases and has presented her work at international conferences across Europe, Asia-Pacific and South Asia, including the EGOS Colloquia, AMDISA, and ANZAM.

Prof. Mishra has an extensive record in executive education and leadership development. She has served as programme coordinator and resource person for management development programmes conducted by JGU for the Border Security Force (across DIG, Commandant, Second-inCommand/ Deputy Commandant and Assistant Commandant levels, including at the BSF Academy, Tekanpur), the Directorate General of Quality Assurance (DGQA), the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG), the state governments of Haryana and Madhya Pradesh, the Indian Army, Jindal Steel Limited (across its Jindal Leadership Transition and Career Transition Programmes), THDC, Power Grid Corporation and Indian Oil Corporation, as well as international programmes for the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission and the Central Tibetan Administration. Her sessions have spanned organisation development and change management, leading organisational change, transitioning from manager to manager-of-managers, talent development and succession planning, mentoring and counselling for leaders, cyber hygiene and institutional response to cyber incidents for public sector leaders, leadership in crisis, work–life balance, emotional intelligence, team building, communication, and self-care for leaders.

Dr. Mishra holds a Fellowship (FPM) in Personnel and Industrial Relations from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, where she was awarded the Prof. Tirath Gupta Memorial Award for the Best Thesis in the Development Domain. She holds Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees from the University of Lucknow, where she received the Suresh Chandra Bhasin Memorial Gold Medal and the Raja Raghavendra Pratap Singh Memorial Gold Medal for the highest aggregate marks in her postgraduation, and the Sarla Bhatnagar Gold Medal in her first year of MPA, and she qualified the UGC-NET Junior Research Fellowship in Public Administration. In January 2025 she attended the in-person Faculty Development Programme at the Aresty Institute of Executive Education, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Outside the classroom, Prof. Mishra loves to read, writes poetry, misses quizzing, and makes multiple attempts to learn different languages.