indore himanshu rai professor human resource management iim lucknow has been appointed by the iimindore board of governors as the next director of the institute an official release said on thursdayprofessor rai will take over from professor rishikesha t krishnan current director iim indore on december 31 when latters fiveyear term as director endsprofessor himanshu rai has been selected by the board after a rigorous selection process i am confident that he will take iim indore forward in keeping with our vision of being a contextuallyrelevant business school with worldclass academic standards prof krishnan saidprof himanshu rai is an educationist an alumnus of indian institute of management ahmedabad iima and he has been teaching pg and doctoral students at indian institute of management lucknow iiml since 2006 his core area is human resource management wherein he focuses on negotiation mediation arbitration strategic hrm and leadership he had earlier taught in the hr area at xlri jamshedpur