Dilip K. Bandyopadhyay is a professor, scientific management researcher and an academic administrator of repute. Presently he is the Chief Advisor to the office of the Founder President of Amity Group of Institutions. He was second vice-chancellor of the Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University. His term of the Vice-Chancellor office started on 9 December 2008 and ended on 8 December 2013.Prof. Bandyopadhyay was the director of the Indian Institute of Forest Management, Bhopal, from 2004 to 2008.^[1]

He is a fellow of ESSEC, Paris.^[2] Prior to joining to IIFM, he was a Professor (1986- 2008), Dean and Acting director (2000–2003) at the Indian Institute of Management Lucknow.^{[citation needed]}