Sahadeb Sarkar has a PhD in statistics from Iowa State University, USA. He joined the Operations Management group of IIM Calcutta in 1997. Before that, he was an associate professor with tenure at Oklahoma State University, USA. He has also served as a visiting professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA.
Debashis Chatterjee has played a significant role in the growth of IIM-K. Under his tenure, the institute admitted over 50 percent of women students to the flagship postgraduate programme, which created a trend among the other IIMs