Dr. Chatterjee is a widely acclaimed management practitioner, theorist, and teacher. He has written and lectured over many years on issues of social and sustainable development, corporate responsibility and human resources. As Secretary to the Government of India in the Department of Public Enterprises, he prepared and wrote the first comprehensive guidelines on CSR for the public sector. In the process, he was able to make CSR a part of the yearly assessment of public sector enterprises. Shortly, after this pioneering effort, Dr. Chatterjee put together a dedicated task force and prepared the first comprehensive guidelines on “Sustainable Development” for this sector. He is a member of the Teri Advisory Board. He joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1975 and has held many distinguished positions subsequently.
In 2008-09, he was the Principal Advisor to the Planning Commission where he was deeply involved in devising a number of micro and macro-economic measures. He was also a part of the team responsible for shaping India’s response to the global economic crisis of 2009. In 1990, Dr. Chatterjee authored his first book – a path-breaking work titled “Japanese Management – Maruti and the Indian Experience”. Thereafter, in 2009, he wrote his now famous “Human Resource Management – A Contemporary Text” which has gone into its fourth revised and enlarged edition. His widely acclaimed book, “Leadership India – Leading Change, Changing Lives”, was released at the World HRD Congress in February 2011.
Dr. Chatterjee has served as the Director General & CEO of the IICA, and has made noteworthy contributions in shaping the contours of the subject of Corporate Affairs and preparing strategies for capacity development, knowledge dissemination, and quality research. Under his leadership, the IICA expeditiously evolved as a repository of knowledge by fostering cutting-edge research. Furthermore, Dr. Chatterjee acted as a consultant and solutions provider for IICA, through the establishment of training and capacity building facilities and partnerships with some of the best academic institutions in the world. Dr. Chatterjee has most recently authored his latest Book titled “Sustainable Futures – Imperatives For Managing The Social Agenda”. In this book, Dr. Chatterjee writes about how governments, corporates, and civil society organizations can synergize their efforts to build a whole new paradigm of development that is sustainable, humanistic and inclusive.