Dr Raj V. Amonkar is a Ph.D. from BITS Pilani, KK Birla Goa campus with a Post Graduate Diploma in Operations Management from Indira Gandhi National Open University and B.Tech. in chemical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University. Raj attended the Process Business Management Programme at the University of Warwick, UK, and also completed the Supply Manager Course at Syngenta’s Supply Chain Academy.
Dr Raj is currently a Professor in the area of Production & Operations Management at Goa Institute of Management since November 2011. He was additionally charged with the responsibility of the Management Development Program (2012-2015), PGDM Part-Time program (2015-2017) and PGDM Full-Time Flagship program (2017-2020) of Goa Institute of Management. He was a member of the Academic Advisory Council of Goa Institute of Management during 2012-2020.
Prior to joining Goa Institute of Management, Dr. Raj had over 26 years of industrial experience with reputed organizations in the areas of Global Logistics and Supply Chain (including Production and Supply Chain Planning, Supply Chain Design, Vendor Scheduling, Export-Import, Warehouse/Stores, Inventory Control and Dispatch, Distribution Safety and Compliance) and Manufacturing Operations (encompassing Production, Quality, Technical Services, Projects, and Utilities). Raj had also presented papers at several national and international conferences. Dr. Raj is a Member Logistics Committee of CII, Goa. He was a Member Logistics Committee, Goa Chamber of Commerce and Industry during 2009-2011 and was nominated as Expert-Chemicals by TUV SUD, Germany during 2003-2004. He was nominated by the Government of Goa as a member of the committee to formulate the export strategy in 2018.
