Following the previous Director's retirement, Prof Chandra P Shrimali has been appointed as the Officiating Director of Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon starting December 1, 2011, informed an institute press release.

Prof Shrimali became the Director after the previous officiating director Prof VK Gupta retired, added the statement. Prof Shrimali will also head MDI's campus at Murshidabad.

"Prof CP Shrimali is a well-known professor of Human Resource and Management and has been in academics for last 36 years. He has provided management consultancy services on 40 consultancy assignments. He is a certified management consultant from CMC and has worked for United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in the areas of Human Resource Management and management consulting development," the release said.