Chairmen & Directors

Prof. M. M. Sharma (b. 1937) is an Indian chemical engineer who served as the twelfth Chairman of the Board of Governors of IIT Madras. He obtained his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in chemical engineering from the University Department of Chemical Technology (UDCT, now the Institute of Chemical Technology). He obtained his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from Cambridge University. He returned to UDCT to work as a professor at UDCT for a period of 33 years, later becoming the Director of the institute. Prof. Sharma was the first Indian engineer to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, in 1990.