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Prof. Keshav Kumar Sharma has over 25 years of total work experience in industry and academia. His core professional work experience is in the area of project management of infrastructure sector projects. A major part of his industrial work experience was with “Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd”, a Government of India enterprise. Additional work association was with Instalaciones Inabensa S.A., a leading Spanish MNC working in the development of industrial facilities and the infrastructure sector. His project management experience includes planning, scheduling, monitoring, controlling, procurement, and implementation of infrastructure projects. He has conducted and coordinated multiple Management Development programs (MDPs) & company-based training programs in the area of project management.

Prof. Sharma is currently working as a Professor in the Operations Management area at Jaipuria Institute of Management, Noida which is among India's best MBA/PGDM colleges in Delhi NCR. He has previously worked as a full faculty in the operations management area at the School of Business, UPES, Dehradun; Institute of Management Technology (IMT)–Ghaziabad, and National Institute of Construction Management and Research, Pune. He teaches courses in operations and supply chain management areas such as Operations Management, Supply Chain Management, Project Management, Service Operations Management, and Quality Management.

Prof. Sharma is a B.E., MBA, and a certified Project Management Professional (PMP®) by Project Management Institute, USA. He is a Fellow in Management from XLRI, Jamshedpur. His doctoral research work was in the area of service operations strategy. His research interests include infrastructure project management, project management maturity, service operations strategy decision areas, and competitive capabilities development.

Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), MBA, PMP®, Fellow in Management (XLRI, Jamshedpur)

Papers Published in Peer Reviewed Journals (ABDC, SCOPUS, and WoS)

Sharma, K. K., Israel, D., & Bhalla, B. (2021). Does previous work experience matter in students’ learning in higher project management education? Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, 28(1), 424-450. https://doi.org/10.1108/ECAM-01-2019-0015

Sharma, K. K., & Kumar, A. (2018). Facilitating quality project manager selection for Indian business environment using analytical hierarchy process. International Journal of Quality & Reliability Management, 35(6), 1177-1194. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJQRM-10-2016-0175

Edited Books

Anand, A., Tripathi, A., Sharma, K., Chauhan, A., & Agarwal, R. (Eds.). (2024).  Sustainability, Entrepreneurship, Equity and Digital Strategies.  New Delhi: Bloomsbury India. ISBN: 9789356409903

Pandey, D., Chakrabarti, D., Srivastava, S., Sharma, K., Kumar, S., & Tewary, T. (Eds.). (2022).  Business Development and Sustainable Development Goals - Responding to the New Normal.  New Delhi: Bloomsbury India. ISBN: 9789354358623