Dr Irani appointed as Chairman, IIM Society

New Delhi, Apr 22: The Ministry of Human Resource Development has appointed Dr Jamshed J Irani as Chairman of Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Society for a period of five years.

Dr Irani, Director of Tata Sons Ltd, will also be acting as a member of Board of Governers in IIM, Lucknow.

He has received 'Ernst&Young's Lifetime Achievement' Award in, 2001, for entrepreneurial success and the 'Twelfth Willy Korf Steel Vision Award' from World Steel Dynamics and American Metal Market.

Dr Irani has also been awarded the Qimpro Platinum Standard in November 2000, and has received the Indian Merchants' Chambers Juran Quality Medal for the year 2001, for his role as a statesman for quality.

The Royal Academy of Engineering, London elected him as a Foreign Member and he is amongst the five Indians who have been bestowed with this honour.

UNI