Nityesh Bhatt
Dr. Nityesh Bhatt is Chairperson and Professor of Information Management Area at Institute of Management, Nirma University, Ahmedabad. He also chairs the Ph.D (Full Time) Programme of the institute. He holds MBA & Ph.D (e-Governance) degrees from M.L. Sukhadia University, India. He has completed a four months’ Faculty Development Programme (FDP) of IIM-Ahmedabad, and an online ‘Internet Governance Capacity Building Programme’ of DiploFoundation, Malta in year 2006. He has more than 20 years of experience in academia, corporate training and research. In 1998, he was awarded as the Best Faculty of NIIT in North India. Before joining Nirma University in June 2007, he worked with Pacific Institute of Management, Udaipur for six years.
Credited with good number of research papers and management cases, he has also co-edited eleven books. In year 2006, Dr. Bhatt was invited to participate in first Internet Governance Forum (IGF) meet jointly organized by United Nations-IGF Secretariat and Government of Greece at Athens. Since 2007, he is a member of the National Executive Committee of Special Interest Group on e-Governance (SIGeGov) set up by Computer Society of India (CSI). He is the recipient of ‘Dewang Mehta Best Teacher of Information Technology Award for the year 2009. Three of his students have been awarded Ph.D. Another three students are pursuing their Ph.D with him.
He has conducted more than 300 MDPs in the area of technology and general management for leading public sector and private sector organizations like Adani Group, ONGC, BPCL, Hindustan Zinc Ltd., Sterlite, Reliance Energy, Alstom Power, Kalpataru Power Transmission, J.K. Cement, NirLife (Healthcare Division of Nirma Ltd.), Parle, ZydusCadilla, Torrent Pharma, GMDC, Piramal Healthcare, Inspiron, Pfizer, Income Tax, Sales Tax, SBI, SBBJ, BOB, Western Zone Railway Training Centre, BOSCH, McDowell, ICAR, Indian Air Force. His research interests are E-Governance, Enterprise Applications and E-Commerce.
