India, April 16 -- IIT Delhi's Professor Manmohan Prasad Gupta will soon become the Director of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Lucknow. The institute announced this in a brief press release on Wednesday.

"IIM Lucknow is pleased to announce that Prof. Manmohan Prasad Gupta, currently serving as Professor at IIT Delhi, shall be taking charge as the institute's Director shortly," the official statement read.

Prof. Gupta is a distinguished faculty member at the Department of Management Studies, IIT Delhi. He earned his B.Tech from Harcourt Butler Technical University (formerly Harcourt Butler Technological Institute), Kanpur. He then completed his M.Tech (1985) and Ph.D. (1990) from IIT Delhi.

Prof. Gupta began his academic caree...