Buddhist spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, to visit IIM-A campus in January 2008, students speak on “Ethics and economics.” The Tibetan guides in Ahmedabad as part of a Tibetan festival to be organized at the city. The conference is open to all students and teachers.

As part of its initiative to instruct persons of different sectors of life to interact with students, IIM-A, so far, the Union Railway Minister Lalu Prasad and Nitish Kumar, Chief Minister of Bihar and CPI ( M) leader Sitaram Yechury.

This was followed by Senator Edward Murray, the man in a country Washington State, a conference on public-private partnerships in infrastructure on campus in May 2007.