Dr. Anup Kumar Sinha is the former Director of Heritage Business School (‘HBS’) and currently designated as Chief Mentor. He has also served on the Board of NABARD.
Dr. Sinha has taught at Presidency College and Indian Institute of Management Calcutta (‘IIMC’). He served IIMC as Professor of Economics for 25 years. He served three terms on the Board of Governors at IIMC and also as the Dean during 2003-06.
He received the Best Teacher Award in 2004 and Best Faculty Award in 2005 from the IIMC Alumni Association. In 2012, 2014 and 2015, he won the Most Popular Teacher Award from the outgoing MBA students of IIMC.
He has held visiting appointments at University of Calcutta, Indian Statistical Institute, National Institute of Public Finance & Policy, University of Southern California, Washington University at St. Louis, Curtin University and Curtin Business School at Perth and Kyoto University. He has been actively engaged in training and consulting for a number of organisations in the public and private sector, as well as for international agencies in the fields of economics. He has also authored publications on various topics including economics, rural economy, management, etc.
Dr. Anup Kumar Sinha is an economist with a Ph.D. from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. He is also an M.S. in Economics, University of Rochester, USA, Master in Economics from University of Calcutta and B.A (Economics Honours), Presidency College, Calcutta.
