Mohan Gopinath

Biography

Dr. Gopinath holds a BA (Hons) degree and a Master’s degree in English from St. Stephen’s College – Delhi University, where he later joined as a faculty. After a two year stint in the college, Dr. Gopinath joined the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, and worked as a senior level banker for almost 21 years in India, UK and Hong Kong, after initially completing a two year training attachment to the London branch of the bank. Subsequently he left the industry and worked for a Ph.D . degree which he obtained from Osmania University on the topic, Organizational Learning (in the banking industry). His career in HSBC also included an attachment to the all India HR function. After obtaining his doctoral degree, Dr. Gopinath worked as a management consultant in India and the Middle East. Dr. Gopinath has also worked as a lead consultant for a World Bank funded Institutional Development Study conducted for the Andhra Pradesh Forest Department. Dr. Gopinath reverted to academia after working as a consultant for more than one decade, and joined as the Dean of the St. Joseph’s College of Business Administration, Bangalore. He later shifted to the Alliance University’s School of Business, Bangalore, where he now works as a Professor in the Department of OB and HR. His areas of interest are leadership, management of change, conflict resolution, banking and protection of the environment. He has presented and published papers in national and international conferences/ journals in his areas of specialization as well as on aspects of Indian dance and music. He has conducted Management Development Programs for senior managers in his areas of specialization in the organizational development area in India and the Middle East. He edits Alliance University’s magazine ‘the Alliancian’ and is the Associate Editor of the Alliance Journal of Business Research. He has published four books , including one titled “Business Drama: How Shakespearean Insights Help Leaders Manage Volatile Contexts’ and another titled ‘The Actor Who Could Connect: the Genius of Kalamandalam Krishnan Nair’ (Kathakali actor).

Research Interest

leadership, management of change, conflict resolution, banking and protection of the environment.