Fr. E. Abraham S.J. former director, XLRI- Xavier School of Management, Jamshedpur passed away on Thursday morning due to a cardiac arrest a...
Fr. E. Abraham S.J. former director, XLRI- Xavier School of Management, Jamshedpur passed away on Thursday morning due to a cardiac arrest at XIM Bhubaneswar. He was 70 and an alumnus of XLRI (PGDPMIR- 1978). Fr. E. Abraham was the longest-serving director of XLRI. His total tenure as director spanned over 16 years across two terms, from 1989 to 1994 and from 2008 to 2019.
All India Management Association (AIMA)
conferred on Fr. E. Abraham the "AIMA -“Kewal Nohria Award for Academic Leadership in
Management Education" 2019. He was also conferred the 'AIM - ASMA Lifetime
Achievement Award' at the 3rd ASMA Annual Convention & Awards 2019.
Fr.
Abraham was highly regarded as a champion of India's management academia and an
eminent thought leader in academic governance who has immensely contributed to
management education in India. He was the founder-secretary of the National HRD
Network and the founder-president of the Indian Association of Autonomous
Business Schools. He was also on the International Association of Jesuit
Business Schools and Association of Asia Pacific Business Schools boards. He
has been the President of the Association of Indian Management Schools and was
a board member at IRMA. He has also been a member of the National Board of
Accreditation (NBA) and member of the All India Board of Management Studies.
Fr. Abraham served as a member of the Board of Governors at many Indian and
foreign business schools, like XLRI Jamshedpur, St Xavier University Kolkata,
St Xavier University Bhubaneswar, and Asian Institute of Management, Manila. He
has received numerous accolades for his contribution to management education.
The funeral service will be held on Friday, July 16 at 2
pm at Loyola Chapel, Jamshedpur followed by burial at Jesu Bhavan Jesuit
Cemetery at 3.30 pm.
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