Dr. Ajay K. Garg is Professor at Indian Institute of Management Lucknow in Finance and Accounting area. He has professional experience of close to three decades.
He is also currently holding the position of Dean (Faculty) at IIM Lucknow and is also a member of the Board of Governors of IIM Lucknow. Before this he has held the positions of Chairperson PGP (Flagship MBA programme of IIM Lucknow), Chairperson MDP (Executive Education), Chairperson Student Affairs, Chairperson Placements and Chairperson Alumni Affairs at IIM Lucknow. He was also the Convener of the Task Force for setting up a new IIM and played a pivotal role in establishing IIM Sirmaur and running it for the first two years. He is on the Board of Governors of IIM Sirmaur since 2016 till date.
He is a founding member of Centre for Public Policy at IIM Lucknow and has been associated with prestigious projects like Arth Ganga (under the agies of Niti Aayog, NMCG, Ministry of Jal Shakti) , Mahatama Gandhi National Fellowship (under Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship), Creating SOP for UP 112 during Covid Pandemic etc.
He was also a member of a three member Judicial Commission set up by the Governor of UP to investigate the RiverFront scam.
He is a member of Board of Studies of BFSI programme of Goa Institute of Management since July 2022.and is a member of Advisory Board of MBA-BKFS programme of TAPMI, Manipal since July 2024.