Faculty Profile

Dr. Godwin Tennyson has a mix of academia and industry experience of more than 20 years, and has been associated with IIM Tiruchirappalli since its inception as the founding faculty member of Operations Management and Decision Sciences area. He is a qualified Mechanical Engineer and Industrial Engineer. He started his career as part-time teaching assistant at NIT Calicut and then as part-time research assistant at IIT Madras while pursuing his masters and doctoral degrees respectively. Dr. Godwin obtained his doctoral degree from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and had then worked in corporate sector for nearly 5 years as business analytics and operations research consultant in Kantar Millward Brown Analytics (formerly Marketing and Planning Systems) and Blue Yonder (formerly JDA Software) before joining IIM Tiruchirappalli. Dr. Godwin has been trained by Harvard Business School on case pedagogy, and by UK-India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI) on academic leadership.

Dr. Godwin is a Professor in Operations Management and Decision Sciences area at IIM Tiruchirappalli and has taught across all masters and doctoral programmes offered by the institute. His teaching interest includes Supply Chain Management, Logistics Management, Productivity Management, Process Reengineering, Pricing Decisions, Revenue Management, Simulation Modeling, Network Flow Modeling, and Quantitative Methods. He uses hybrid pedagogical approaches that includes classroom lectures, case discussions, simulation games, hands on data modeling and classroom experimentation. He is also actively involved in executive education where his andragogy includes role play and activity based learning, and has been programme director for several programmes.

Dr. Godwin is actively involved in research with more than 50 presentations, publications and articles in several reputed peer-reviewed international journals, international conferences, edited books, etc. He was awarded 'Best Paper' thrice in international conferences presentations. He had served as session chair at several international conferences and was the Conference Chair of 11th Indian Subcontinent Decision Sciences Institute International Conference, which was the largest international management conference in India with more than 500 presentations and author representations from 18 countries.

Dr. Godwin had held several administrative responsibilities at IIM Tiruchirappalli since its inception. He had been the founding Chairperson of Placement and External Relations, Chairperson of Operations Management and Decision Sciences Area, Chairperson of International Relations, Chairperson of Post Graduate Programme in Management, and part of several committees. He was a member of Board of Governors, Finance Committee, and Building and Works Committee of IIM Tiruchirappalli. He is currently the Dean (Administration) and First Appellate Authority of Rights to Information Cell. He had been part of or headed several adhoc committees of the institute over the years. Dr. Godwin had also been Director (in-charge) of the institute for several months.

Dr. Godwin serves as external examiner for doctoral candidates, external member of doctoral committees, member of board of studies, and academic auditor for various institutions and universities. He also serves as reviewer of papers for various international journals and subject expert for external committees.