Niranjan Pati (born January 30, 1959) is a professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at the Rohrer College of Business, Rowan University, NJ.
[2] Afterwards, he obtained his Master's Degree in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1983.
After a brief spell of employment in India’s public sector, Pati received his Master's Degree from Northwestern University in 1988 under the guidance of Dr. Wallace J. Hopp.
He then served as the Chair of the Department of Management in the College of Business Administration at the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse.
He is a member of the Beta Gamma Sigma honor society, Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences, and several civic groups, and has served on the Board of the Chamber of Commerce of South New Jersey (CCSNJ) for 2009-2012.