Professor Lekshmi N. Pillai

Professor Lekshmi N. Pillai is currently Executive Dean of the School. He was awarded Ph. D by Madurai Kamaraj University, India for the work done on “Performance Evaluation of Leasing Industry in India”. He also holds MBA (Finance) and M. Com (Accounting). He has over 32 years of lecturing Master’s programme in Management in India and Papua New Guinea. He won “Best Research Paper” award from Association of Indian Management Schools (AIMS) in 1996 for his Research paper titled, “A Discriminant Model to classify the Indian Leasing Hire Purchase Companies Based on Financial Performance”. Apart from this, he has published several articles on leading journals, attended several workshops and conferences. His current research interest is on Corporate Governance and Strategic Management, apart from Environmental Accounting and Corporate Turnaround Strategy. Further, he has prepared course materials for participants of MBA programme at Madurai Kamaraj University, India. He is involved in teaching of Corporate Governance and Business Ethics, Marketing Management and Strategic Management for various masters programmes. He is also actively participating in Education and Examination Committee of CPAPNG. He is a financial member of Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy of UK and Certified Practising Accountants of Papua New Guinea (CPAPNG).