Mohandas Pai has agreed to co-chair the committee set up to form a new economics school at his alma mater Bangalore University.

This is the first public role that Pai has agreed to undertake since he resigned as a board member at Infosys, and indicates the kind of roles he is interested in taking up in the future.

"I have accepted the offer from Bangalore University. I will be part of a committee that will look at setting up a school of economics. We want to create an institute on the lines of the London School of Economics," Pai told ET NOW on Thursday.