Deepak Shetty, IRS, has been appointed by the Indian Institute of Management – Mumbai (IIM-M) as its ‘Visiting Distinguished Professor’ with areas of coverage in the fields of maritime policy, shipping, logistics, governance, and maritime trade.
Deepak Shetty, IRS, the former Director General of Shipping, has had a distinguished career in various government roles. Deepak is a former Secretary to the Government of India and Director General of Shipping. He is from the Indian Revenue Service (Customs and Central Excise) – 1980 batch. He retired from his civil service career spanning a little over 36 years, at the end of 2016. He served as Director General of Shipping for 2 years in 2015-16. Prior to this, he was assigned Joint Director General of Shipping for 4 years from 2011 to 2014. He has served in multiple official assignments, across the Ministries of Finance, Textiles and Shipping in the Government of India.
He currently also serves as Senior Adviser to the Maritime Anti-Corruption Network (MACN) – Copenhagen, Director-cum-Trustee of the International Seafarers Welfare and Assistance Network (ISWAN) – London, Maritime Sanctions Expert of the United Nations (UN) – New York and is an Independent Director on the Boards of Directors of several Indian companies.
