Prof Keshav Sharma gets 3 year extension as VC, ICFAI University
May 31, 2025
JAMMU: Prof. Keshav Sharma has been granted another three-year term as Vice Chancellor of The ICFAI University, Himachal Pradesh.
The decision was approved in the Governing Body meeting chaired by Prof. V.N. Rajasekharan Pillai, former UGC Chairman and Founding Chairperson of NAAC.
Prof. Sharma's reappointment reflects the University's confidence in his leadership and commitment to academic excellence.
Son of the soil, Prof. Keshav Sharma, formerly Dean Academic Affairs and Professor of Management Studies, The Business School, University of Jammu was appointed as the Vice-Chancellor of the prestigious ICFAI University, Baddi, Himachal Pradesh in 2022 for a period of three years. Now, Prof Keshav he has been given another three-year term as VC.
Prof. Keshav Sharma a well-known name in the educational circles. In his academic career spanning around 40 years, he has worked on almost all the important academic and administrative positions of the University of Jammu including the Dean Academic Affairs; Registrar; Controller of Examinations; Dean Students Welfare; Dean Faculty of Business Studies; Director, The Business School; Director, Sports & Physical Education; Provost Hostels; Chief Coordinator Campuses & Rector, Udhampur Campus; and Warden etc.
Prof. Sharma has also served as the Campus Director at the Mohali Campus of the Rayat Bahra Group. He is a Ph.D. in Marketing and a Post Doc. from the University of Louisville, Kentucky, USA. Prof. Keshav has had the privilege of doing his FDP from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
He has attended many International/National Conferences and Meets. He visited Singapore, Canada and USA as a member of the JU Core Teams to study the academic practices in these countries.
Besides being an author of three Books, he has several publications in Journals of repute. He has guided sixteen Ph.Ds and 07 M.Phils and has also been a Coordinator of the prestigious UGC SAP DRS Projects.
Prof. Keshav has not only been popular amongst his students but also amongst the University fraternity for his indefatigable, humane and helping nature.
He is fondly remembered for having been instrumental in organizing two Mega Youth Festivals Umang & Harmony in the University of Jammu which lent JU an extra visibility and a name both at the national as well as at the international levels.
