List of IIM Calcutta alumni

Business

• Sunil Alagh, former MD and CEO of Britannia Industries
• Ajit Balakrishnan, founder and chief executive officer of Rediff.com; chairman of the board of governors of IIM Calcutta
• Vikrant Bhargava, co-founder and group marketing director, PartyGaming
• Rohit Chadda, CEO for the digital business at Zee group ; co-founder of foodpanda.com; Fortune 40 under 40
• Ashish Chauhan, managing director and CEO, Bombay Stock Exchange
• Pranay Chulet, co-founder and CEO of Quikr
• Sunil Duggal, chief executive officer of Dabur
• Sanjay Gupta, country manager of Google
• Sabyasachi Hajara, chairman and managing director, Shipping Corporation of India
• Patu Keswani, chairman and managing director of Lemon Tree Hotels
• Shantanu Khosla, MD of Procter & Gamble India
• M. R. Madhavan, president and co-founder of PRS Legislative Research
• P M Murty, former MD and CEO of Asian Paints
• Srinath Narasimhan, managing director and chief executive officer of Tata Teleservices
• T. V. Narendran, MD of Tata Steel
• Indra Nooyi, chairman and chief executive officer, PepsiCo
• Jessie Paul, author and marketer
• Sudhakar Ram, founder and CEO of Mastek
• Sumant Sinha, founder, chairman and CEO, ReNew Power
• Shyam Srinivasan, MD and CEO of Federal Bank
• Nishi Vasudeva, chairperson and managing director at Hindustan Petroleum; first woman to head a Navratna PSU
• Gopal Vittal, CEO of Bharti Airtel

Academics

• Prakash Apte, academic; professor and former director of Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
• B. B. Chakrabarti, former finance professor at IIM Calcutta; ex Director of Indian Institute of Management Ranchi
• Dipesh Chakrabarty, historian
• Ravi Dhar, George Rogers Clark Professor of Management and Marketing and Director of the Center for Customer Insights at the Yale School of Management
• Anindya Ghose, Heinz Riehl Chair professor and Director of the Masters in Business Analytics degree program at Stern School of Business at New York University
• Dan Gode, professor at New York University
• Ramachandra Guha, historian and author
• Gita Johar, vice dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion and Meyer Feldberg Professor of Business, Columbia Business School, Columbia University
• , Professor at Georgia Tech University
• , Professor at Kansas State University, Emeritus Professor, University of Missouri
• Krishna Palepu, professor at Harvard Business School, senior adviser to the president for Global Strategy, Harvard University
• Vallabh Sambamurthy, Dean of the Wisconsin School of Business, University of Wisconsin, Madison
• Chetan Sankar, Emeritus Professor of Raymond J. Harbert College of Business, Auburn University
• Mohanbir Sawhney, McCormick Tribune Professor of Technology, Kellogg School of Management
• Venkatesh Shankar, Coleman Chair Professor of Marketing and director of research at the Center for Retailing Studies at Mays Business School at Texas A&M University
• Paul Shrivastava, David O'Brien Distinguished Professor of Sustainable Enterprise, Concordia University
• M. J. Xavier, founding director of Indian Institute of Management Ranchi

Literature

• Swati Kaushal, novelist
• Manreet Sodhi Someshwar, novelist
• Amish Tripathi, novelist, author of the ''Shiva Trilogy''

Government, politics, and social work

• Ajay Bisaria, Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan, former Ambassador to Poland and Lithuania
• Amolak Rattan Kohli, former Governor of Mizoram
• Vinayak Lohani, social entrepreneur, founder of Parivaar
• Dinesh K. Patnaik, Ambassador of India to the Kingdom of Spain and the Principality of Andorra, former Ambassador to Kingdom of Morocco and to the Kingdom of Cambodia; Deputy High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
• Krishnamurthy Subramanian, 17th Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India

Spirituality

• Swami Mukundananda, spiritual leader; bestselling author; founder of JKYog and Radha Krishna Temple, Dallas

Other

• Malli Mastan Babu, mountaineer; known for his Guinness World Record for scaling the seven summits in 172 days in 2006