Dr. Vinita Sahay is the second women in the country appointed by the Government of India to be a Director of an IIM. She joined IIM Bodh Gaya as the Founder Director in February 2018. Prior to joining IIM Bodh Gaya, she was Professor of Marketing at IIM Raipur and worked at different capacities: Chairperson (International Relations), Chairperson (Doctoral Program) and Chairperson (Students Affairs).She is also Member of All India Board of Management Studies constituted by All India Council of Technical education (AICTE) under Management Expert category. She also serves an Expert for Scrutiny committee for Graded Autonomy granted by AICTE to standalone Institutions running PGDM programmes. She also serves as an expert member for UGC for various committees.

Dr. Sahay has widely travelled world over and is also a Visiting Professor at Aarhus University Denmark for last ten years. She was an Adjunct Professor at GlobalNxt University (earlierU21, Singapore). She attended ‘Global Colloquium on Participant-Centered Learning (GloColl)’ at the Harvard Business School, Boston, U.S. and Harvard Centre, Shanghai, China. She also participated in “Developing Leadership, Governance & Management in Higher Education” programme conducted by Leadership Foundation for Higher Education & UKIERI in Birmingham, UK.As Chairperson (International Relations), she increased Partner Institutions to 18, the number students exchange increased by about 100%. Two-Third of the batch went for IR exchange

As Chairperson (Fellow Programmes), Prof. Sahay started FPM in 2012 and EFPM in 2013, making it one of the sought after Doctoral programme within a short span of five years.

Dr. Sahay secured first class with high ranks throughout her academic career. She did her PGDM with Marketing as a major concentration area. She secured first class first with Gold Medal in M.A. in Economics and has done Ph.D. on Customer Value. With about 25 years of experience, she has published and presented a large number of research papers in International/National journals/ conferences and book chapters. She has organized three large international conferences and edited five books.