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Dr. Madhukar G Angur is the Founder and Chancellor of Alliance University — an educator, researcher and institution-builder who has spent five decades turning ideas about learning into places where people learn.


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Dr. Angur
Dr. Madhukar G Angur is an acclaimed academic and entrepreneur whose career spans continents. Trained in electrical engineering and marketing, with a Ph.D. in Business from the University of Texas at Arlington and a postgraduate diploma from IIM Ahmedabad, he brings an engineer's rigour to questions of strategy.
For nearly two decades he was Professor of Marketing at the University of Michigan-Flint, where he held the David M. French Distinguished Professorship and was named a Distinguished Michigan Professor. He went on to found Alliance University, and his work with the Social Systems Research Institute and the Alliance Business School Research Institute applies research and technology to hard societal problems.
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See detailsMilestones
Founded SSRI, a consortium dedicated to providing customised social research and planning services to a variety of sectors.
Awarded by the Michigan Association of University Governing Boards, recognising Dr. Angur's significant contributions to marketing education and research.
Founded Alliance University as a major educational initiative, becoming its first Chancellor and setting a benchmark in private higher education in India.
Initiated the ABS Research Institute, focusing on Technological Readiness Audits (TRA) and linking academia with industry needs.
Research published in
Industrial Marketing Management, Journal of Advertising Research, Journal of Marketing Management, and others.
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