Dr Roshan Lal Raina takes over as VC JK Lakshmipat University Jaipur

Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Oct 14: Dr Roshan Lal Raina today took over the charge of Vice Chancellor at JK Lakshmipat University, Jaipur.
Before taking over as the Vice Chancellor of JKLU, Dr Raina was Professor in ‘Communication’ at the Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow (IIML), where he successfully initiated and handled institution building activities in areas like ‘Placements’, ‘Corporate Communication & Media Relations’, Student Affairs’, and ‘Alumni Affairs’.
Dr Raina is credited with building and managing state-of-the-art and world-class academic infrastructure, including the learning resource center at IIML. As Dean: Planning & Development at IIML, Dr Raina was responsible for overseeing activities related to resource mobilization through industry – interface, training interventions, consulting and research initiatives.
As Visiting Faculty on several overseas assignments, Dr Raina has also been responsible for contributing to building academic collaborations (student – teacher exchange) and networking with benchmarked institutions abroad.
Among several distinguished assignments, Dr Raina has successfully handled, holding the position of Director at the prestigious Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Management, Delhi during 2005-2008. His involvement in mentoring recently established IIMs (at Rohtak, Kashipur and Sirmaur, in particular), drew appreciation of all concerned.
On the academic front, besides teaching a variety of innovative courses in the areas of ‘Communication for Management’, he has had several prestigious assignments in educational institutes in US, UK, France, Germany, and Canada.
Reputed organizations like the Fulbright Foundation (USA), the British Council (UK), the Max Mueller Bhawan (Germany), the ESCP-EAP (France), and the IORC (Canada) sponsored these assignments.
Dr Raina’s research contributions include 20 bestselling books, 75 research papers in national and international level peer-reviewed journals and 125 papers presented in national/international conferences and seminars.