Prof D P Goyal, Director, IIM Shillong, is an internationally acclaimed academician and researcher. He carries over thirty-five years of rich experience in teaching, research and various leadership roles in few of India’s finest institutions such as MDI Gurgaon, IMT Ghaziabad and Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, Patiala. He is also a visiting Professor at Aarhus University, Denmark.

Prof Goyal has already supervised fifteen PhD research scholars; published over 60 research papers and has been principal investigator of several sponsored research projects. He has more than a dozen books to his credit which includes three highly popular text books in Information Systems area. He has also been the editor of a couple of research journals and is on the Editorial Board of several national and international journals.

Prof Goyal has been on the expert/assessment/selection committees of various National bodies and is also on the Board of Governors; Academic Advisory Board; Academic Council; Board of Studies of a large number of business schools and universities.

Prof Goyal is an MBA from Punjabi University and PhD in Management Information Systems from Kurukshetra University.