Dr Ramaswamy Nandgopal, Director of Xavier Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship, Kochi, has over three decades of academic experience, serving in various capacities at leading institutions such as the Institute of Public Enterprise, Hyderabad and Loyola College, Madras. He specialises in the area of Financial Management and Restructuring of organisations.

He is the Founder Member of ABBS and has held leadership positions in National and Regional organisations such as AIMA, AIMS, CII, ICC, CMA and Productivity Council, and is currently on the board of Commissioners at ACBSP.

Dr Ramaswamy Nandgopal received his PhD in Finance in 1985 from the University of Madras and M.Com and M.Phil from University of Madras, MBA from Madurai Kamaraj University and did Advanced Management Programme from the Department of Management Science, University of Leeds, the United Kingdom.

He has been awarded the Honorary Citizen of Toledo, Ohio, the USA for his contribution to the Indo American Education Initiative.

He has published 75 articles in national and international journals and is the author of 17 books on Management.