Dr. B.P. Singh, Ph.D. (BusinessAdministration)

Prof. Brajendra Pratap Singh, age 84, comes from a humble middle class family in Deoria district of Eastern UP. He completed his schooling from Gorakhpur and then moved to Allahabad University for his higher education. He has been an erudite and a brilliant scholar of Allahabad University wherefrom he completed his graduation, post graduation, and also got his Ph.D. degree awarded.

For it is in giving that we receive, Prof. B.P. Singh, a renowned name in academics and administration in the field of management and commerce, and being a true educationist from heart, has always worked towards giving back to the society by virtue of imparting quality education in numerous forms, and at different platforms.

Not only on educational aspect but Prof. Singh has also been actively involved on environmental and social fronts as well, by way of planting trees, distributing books & clothes to the needy. A pious, religious, and spiritual spirit, Prof. Singh also got a room ready to provide a shelter to the pilgrimages at a holy place.

In his effort to contribute to the upliftment of the education system and the society, he became the chief architect of the much sort after Post Graduate professional courses of Delhi University, namely, Master of Human Resource and Organizational Development (MHROD), and Master of International Business (MIB). Both these programmes were his brain child during his tenure as Head, Department of Commerce and Dean, Faculty of Commerce and Business, University of Delhi, Delhi. Prior to that, in 1982 he joined as Founder, Professor, Head & Dean of FMS, University of Udaipur, keeping in lien over DU post.

Prof. Singh has authored more than 20 books on different aspects of Management, Commerce, and Economics, most of them are widely read by the students of Graduate and Post-graduate classes pursuing Management and Commerce streams apart from more than two dozen research papers in the leading journals. As a research supervisor, 30 research scholars have earned their Ph.D. degree, 30 have earned their M.Phil. Degree, and one has earned D.Litt. Degree under his able supervision.

Besides teaching and research he has the distinction of having Chaired a number of professional seminars at the national and international levels and has served as Key/Panel Speakers in many others. He has also rendered his expertise to various Government/ Semi Govt. bodies as member of panel of experts, such as, UPSC, State PSC’s, ICSSR, and the Universities’ Bodies, Boards, Academic Council, Senate, etc. Dr. Singh has the distinction of holding office of Executive Vice-President of Indian Commerce Association (ICA) for three consecutive terms of three years each (1990-90-95-98) and was given the singular honour of Deemed President of ICA.

Professor B.P. Singh has also served as expert-member of U.G.C. Visiting/ Inspection teams of IX & X, and XI Plans for assessing the achievements of the Universities and recommending grants for the respective plans under reference.

Professor B.P. Singh, a great learner, and inspirer, was awarded Lifetime Achievement Award in the year 2002 by R.B. Institute of Management, Rohilkhand University, Bareilly, and also in the year 2013 in a workshop on Business Excellence through Effective Leadership organized by Global Business Solutions in association with Unicorn India.

A teacher is known by what quality of students and citizens they have produced. Prof. Singh has given this country a good number of well qualified and competent citizens who are working on top levels in their own respective fields.

Currently he is the Promoter and Chairman of the Governing Body of Society for Human Transformation and Research (SHTR), Delhi. SHTR manages a host of institutions, viz., Delhi School of Professional Studies and Research (DSPSR), Delhi, which is affiliated to Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University (GGSIPU), Delhi, SHTR Consulting Group, and SHTR Career Solutions. He has also been serving as Visiting Professor/Fellow at several Universities for their management programmes.