Thiruvananthapuram, June 29 (PTI), Prof MNV Nair, an excellent management expert and president of the Toonz Animation (India), died in a private hospital here this afternoon, hospital sources said.

Founding dean of the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, Nair was keeping indifferent health for the last two weeks. 78-year-old Nair was a bachelor.

He had worked as a lecturer at the University of Bombay, before the IIM Bangalore. He was also at the Institute of base management Coimbatore Bharathiyar University and the Institute of Management at the University of Kerala.

After his return to Kerala, Nair was with several social organizations noted that the Public Affairs Forum.

Nair, who had a short umschränken in journalism, before the academic career, was also a contribution to the first day of newspapers and publications in English and Malayalam