Dr Jha is the president of the Institute for Research in Management and Engineering (INRME) and joined the INRME in 2017. Dr Kumar Neeraj Jha is a senior academic with the Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India.

He started his career with Larsen and Toubro Ltd and was instrumental in successful completion of a number of construction projects such as roads and bridges of national importance. He has published more than 50 papers in a number of international and national journals and conference proceedings. He is currently supervising 2 PhD Students and in addition to that he has supervised more than 54 MEng and PhD successful theses completions of his students. His book on ‘Construction Project Management’ published by Pearson Education and ‘Formwork for Concrete Structures’ published by Tata McGraw Hill is widely accepted as a text book in different universities. He teaches various courses in construction technology and management. He has conducted a number of training programs for industry and has also been involved with a number of consultancy projects. Dr Jha’s areas of specialisation and current interest project performance appraisal, project export, organisation success, construction project management; formwork for concrete structures, construction schedule and factors impacting success of capital intensive projects.