Dr Dwarka Prasad Uniyal, Dean, Flame University, Pune, comes with rich and varied experience of more than 20 years in premier academic institutions and industry. He was previously Assistant Dean, IIM Kashipur where he headed the Dehradun campus and managed the complete spectrum of Executive Education. He was also one of the founding faculty members of IIM Kashipur and was instrumental in scaling up its operations, create the industry and global outreach.

During his illustrious career, Dr Uniyal taught at several premier Business Schools such as MICA, Ahmedabad, SPJIMR, Mumbai and SP Jain School of Global Management in Dubai where he helped set up the Dubai campus and ran its operations for the first two batches.

Before joining IIM Kashipur in the founding faculty group, Professor Uniyal was part of OP JINDAL Global University as the Founding Assistant Dean of JINDAL Global Business School. He created the business school as a greenfield project, recruited faculty members from around the world and ran its operations for three years.

Professor Uniyal serves on the board of Braithwaite & Co Ltd, a CPSE in the Ministry of Railways as an Independent Director. He is also Hon. Chairman of the Advisory Board of social enterprise RANMIR Foundation working in the space of handloom fashion across 7 states. He also serves on the Board of Management of leading academic institutes in Uttarakhand and is on the advisory boards of few start-up firms of his ex-students and mentors them regularly.

Over the years he has been invited to deliver keynotes lectures and conduct workshops and corporate training programmes across the US, UK, Middle East, Japan, China, South East Asia and India.