Dr. Jitendra Kumar Das, a distinguished technocrat with extensive management expertise, currently serves as the Director General of the Foundation for Organisational Research and Education (FORE), a non-profit autonomous organisation registered in 1981 that runs FORE School of Management (FSM) with the main campus in Delhi and Off-campus in Gurugram (offering MBA equivalent programmes), FORE Academy of Management Education (FAME), Gurugram (offering undergraduate programmes), and FORE Institute of Drone Technology and Research (FIDTR), Gurugram, a Govt. of India approved RPTO (offering Drone Pilot Training programmes).
His total years of experience is 42 years in which he has been in academic domain for about 36 years that includes about 12 years with Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal as a faculty member during which tenure he completed his Ph.D. at the University of Toronto, Canada. He has extensively worked in modeling forest management systems using econometrics and analytical process models.
Dr. Das is a master strategist in marketing, business analytics, and AI deployment for enhanced organisational efficiency with a significant tenures with renowned organizations, including Wipro and Shriram Chemicals (DCM Group). His influential teachings have extended to prestigious institutions, including IIMs Ahmedabad, Kozhikode, and Lucknow, as well as MBA programs in Danube Business School, Danube University Krems, Austria and SP Jain Management Center, Singapore. He has also served as a Professor of Marketing and founding Dean (Noida Campus) at IIM Lucknow.
He has also provided consulting services to many national and international organisations such as:
Received US Grant for research in the area of Joint Forest Management with Marketing Management as one of the four focus Tracks from the Ford Foundation, New Delhi, India. (With Professors J. B. Lal, P. K. Biswas, and R. Singhal of Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal).
Dr. Das holds a B.Tech in Chemical Engineering, an M.Tech in Management & Systems, both from IIT Delhi, and a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, Canada, and has completed a marketing-themed summer programme certificate course from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA, and the Mastering Microsoft Generative AI Excellence course in India. He continues to lead with visionary expertise, driving strategic innovations and academic leadership globally.
He has numerous national and international publications including ten edited books to his credit. He has been deeply associated with corporate training at various levels in the forest management, marketing, customer relationship management, etc. domains. He has delivered invited lectures, inaugural/ keynote addresses, etc. to many national and international conferences.
Dr. Das has received numerous awards and honours. To name a few: