Dr. Himadri Das is the Director General of IMI, a role he took on in October 2018 on his return to IMI after being away for almost six years. During the time he was away he first served as Director of Great Lakes Institute of Management Gurgaon and then as Director of MDI Gurgaon. In his first innings at IMI New Delhi he spent eleven years as Professor of Finance and Information Systems, in addition to taking on a variety of leadership roles out of which five years were as the Dean (Academic Programs). Prior to these academic roles, he has about thirteen years of corporate experience mainly in the IT products and services industry, in the US and India, for software multinationals involved with products for engineering and financial applications.

He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Luxembourg, Tampere University in Finland, and the Grenoble Graduate School of Business in France.

 He has a B.Tech. and MBA from IIT Delhi and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia, USA.