BANGALORE: The city-based Xavier Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship (XIME) and the Association of Indian Management Schools (AIMS) will organise a conference on "Management education: an international comparison" on November 17 and 18 on the XIME's campus in Electronics City here.

Julian Teicher, director, Monash Graduate School of Business, Monash University, Australia; Lyndal Drennan, MBA Director, Brisbane Graduate School of Business, Australia; Mahesh Nagarajan of Sauder School of Business, University of British Colombia, Canada; Tony Koo, Dean, and Sikander Khan, senior adviser, Global Management Education Institute, Shanghai, China; Walter Bates of Euromed-Marseilles, France; Fabrio Corno, associate professor, Bicocca University, Milano, Italy; Paul Chan, president, HELP University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Sergey Mordovin, Rector of IMISP, St. Petersburg, Russia; Dolphy Abraham of Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles; Donghoon Kim, vice-dean, Yonsei University, Korea; Vijay Sethi, dean, Global MBA Programme, S.P. Jain Centre of Management, Singapore, and Xavier Mendoza, dean, ESADE Business School, Barcelona, Spain, will present papers related to management education in three distinct international dimensions - developing countries headed by India and China, transitional countries represented by Russia and developed countries belonging to the G-7 group and outside.

Director of the Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore Prakash G. Apte; AIMA president Subir Raha; Bank of Baroda Chairman and Managing Director Anil K. Khandelwal, and Ashok Sinha, CMD of Bharat Petroleum, are among the participants from India.

XIME president J. Philip said there were 1,400 business schools with about 1,250 approved by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE).

"That puts India ahead of the United States in terms of numbers," he said

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