Courses for Senior Executives

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38th Senior Executives Programme  on "Leadership in an Unpredictable World" 19-24 January 2026 new

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About the Senior Executives Course

The Programme for the Senior Executives is one of the cornerstones at NIAS to develop effective and responsive leadership in India. Mr. JRD Tata and Dr. Raja Ramanna envisioned the initiative as a flagship programme of the Institute. Launched in January 1989, the programme has developed a niche at the national level. 

It brings senior executives from different fields with specialised experiences to dialogue with an eminent faculty and among themselves. The primary objective is to innovate and bring transformation. 

Leading institutions such as the ISRO, DAE, Army, Navy, Air Force, DST, MEA, Tata Steels, Tata Metaliks Department of Posts, BARC, IGCAR, DRDO, TCS, NAL, LIC of India, BEL, Cochin Shipyard, FIAT, Airports Authority of India, Reliance, BIOCON, and Bharat Dynamics have nominated their executives/officers for this Programme. 

Primary Objectives and Strategies 

• Building deep multidisciplinary understanding of contemporary issues 

• Lessons from the Past 

• Forecasting the Future 

• Creating a “Thought Leadership Network” 

• Preparing solutions today for tomorrow’s issues 

• Inspiring the next generation through personal excellence 

• Providing optimum answers to contemporary complexities 

• Establishing an effective multidisciplinary network 

• Doing things right and doing right things 

Faculty from the previous programmes 

Abhinav Bindra
Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Amb Muchkund Dubey
Amb Shyam Saran
Amrita Patel
André Béteille
Anil Kakodkar
Anil Swarup
Arun Shourie
Aruna Roy
B Muthuraman
Baldev Raj
Bimal Jalan
Bishan Singh Bedi
Devi Prasad Shetty
Dinesh Gundu Rao
DR Kaarthikeyan
Gopalkrishna Gandhi
Jaswant Singh
Javagal Srinath
Jayaprakash Narayan
JJ Irani
K Kasturirangan
K Ventakaramanan
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Kris Gopalakrishnan
Krishna Byre Gowda
Madhav Gadgil
Malini Parthasarathy
MS Sathyu
MS Valiathan
N Santosh Hegde
N Vittal
Nandan Nilekani
NN Vohra
OP Bhatt
Prabha Sridevan
R Chidambaram
Ramachandra Guha
RD Ravindran
Ricky Kej
Roddam Narasimha
Romila Thapar
RV Raveendran
Sam Pitroda
Shailesh Nayak
Shekhar Dutt
Shekhar Gupta
Shivshankar Menon
Shyam Benegal
Shyam Saran
Soumya Swaminathan
Sudhir S Bloeria
TV Mohandas Pai
UR Ananthamurthy
Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath
VP Malik
VS Ramamurthy
Yashwant Sinha
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