Dr. Subir Chowdhury served as Director of the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (IIM Calcutta) from 1992 to 1997. A second-batch alumnus of IIT Kharagpur, he earned both his B.Tech (Hons) and M.Tech there before obtaining his Ph.D. from the University of Manchester in 1961. Earlier, he was Director of IISWBM, Kolkata, and held senior leadership positions at ICI India. He was President of the Operational Research Society of India (1972), President of the Association of Indian Management Schools (1995), and received the D.Sc. (Honoris Causa) from BESU (now IIEST) in 2008. He also served as Chairman of WEBEL Informatics Ltd., Vice-Chairman of the Indian Institute of Bank Management, and Managing Trustee of Vivekananda Nidhi.