Shekhar Chaudhuri is an Indian academic and management professor. He is a former director of the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta.Chaudhuri graduated from IIT Kharagpur in 1972 with a B.Tech. (Hons) degree in Mechanical Engineering. Subsequently he worked for Larsen & Toubro Limited as a graduate engineer trainee. In 1975, he joined the Fellow Programme in Management (equivalent to Ph.D.) at IIM Ahmedabad, where he specialized in Business Policy.