Dinesh N. Awasthi, Ph.D (Economics)
An Economist with extensive experience in Entrepreneurship training, teaching and research. Worked extensively on policy issues related to SMEs. Worked with several multilateral agencies like ILO, UNIDO, UNDP, as a Consultant on several international assignments. He has four books, about 45 research papers and 13 research reports to his credit. His areas of special interest are: policy research, cluster development, sub-sector analysis, micro-finance and rural banking, rural entrepreneurship and NGOs. Dr. Awasthi is a Member of various Apex Committees and Core Groups of Ministries of SSI & ARI, Urban Employment and Poverty Alleviation, Department of Science & Technology and Planning Commission, Govt. of Gujarat.

Sunil Shukla, Ph.D. (Psychology)
Behavioural scientist, engaged in entrepreneurship teaching, training, research and consulting. Has been working for medium to large sized companies for strategic planning and capacity building of people to convert their managers into intrapreneurs and help create conducive climate for corporate entrepreneurship. Currently involved in a project aimed at creating awareness for entrepreneurship and foreign trade in Greater Mekong Subregion countries. He is Chairperson of EDI's PG Programmes.

Anupriya Pandey, M.Com., Ph.D. (Commerce)
Specialises in managerial economics, finance, and business plan formulation appraisal. About 7 years experience in lectureship. Currently involved in conducting various National and International Programmes in the field of entrepreneurship. She is the academic coordinator of PGDM-BE.

Ramkrishna Mistry, M.Com.
Was associated with research organisations and NGOs before joining EDI as a Faculty and Academic Coordinator for NGO Management programme. He has worked on various developmental issues with focus on HIV/AIDS and Reproductive and Child Health. Was actively involved in training, evaluation and NGO networking & coordination for various projects. Has fairly good experience in working with rural as well as urban communities in Gujarat.

Paul Ben Abrham , M.Sc. Agriculture (Horticulture), GDMM, PGDHRM, CAIIB
Post Graduate in Agriculture with specialization in horticulture. Also acquired Post Graduate Diploma holder in Marketing Management & Human Resource Management. 11 years of experience in various capacities, such as; Agricultural Specialist in a reputed NGO, Assistant Project Manager (Training) in an E.E.C. aided project, Credit Manager for Agriculture, Micro Finance, Retail Products & Priority Sector in a scheduled commercial bank.

Tarun Bedi, B.E. (Civil), M.A. (Sociology)
Has 14 years of experience in the field of Entrepreneurship Development and two years of experience in working for rehabilitation of Adolescents engaged in hazardous occupation. Involved in the promotion of cultivation and processing of medicinal and aromatic plants through training and counseling for the last 7 years.

Pankaj Bharti, Ph.D. (Psychology)
Specializes in Social Psychology, Organisational Behaviour and Research Methods. Trained in conceptualizing and developing measurement tools for Social Science Research. Associated with more than twelve national as well as international research projects. Current interests include preparation of cases and resource material and constructing tools for promoting entrepreneurial tendencies.

Meena Bilgi, M. Phil. (Social Work)
As Social and Gender Development Specialist, she has two decades of extensive experience in Rural Development areas such as; Management of Natural Resources, Livelihood Enhancement and Entrepreneurship Development. She has worked on national and international projects funded by DFID, RNE, SDC, UN agencies, World Bank etc. She has many articles to her credit.

Saumil Dave, BE (Mech.), MBA(HRD), PGDMM
18 years of experience in various industries like paints, pharmaceuticals, dairy, beverages and water management. Extensive experience in areas such as; maintenance, plant engineering, project implementation, purchase and stores, supply chain management and project engineering in above sectors. At present, working with IC3G Cell involved in Cluster Development activities.

Ajay Dixit, B.A.
More than 3 decades of experience in the field of Entrepreneurship Development at national as well as international levels. An experienced Business Counsellor, specializing in training of trainers, training existing entrepreneurs for their growth, teaching ‘Family Business Management’. Also providing capacity building support to NGOs and promoting Social Entrepreneurship.

Raman Gujral, M.Com
Specialises in small enterprise development, various aspects of industrial project identification to project formulation. 17 years of experience in the area of training and development of entrepreneurs. Has extensive experience of working on developing different modules on entrepreneurship development, development orientation programme for support system officials, etc. Associated with various publications on entrepreneurship and marketing of agro produces.

Prakash Jhurani, MA, LL.B, D.Lib
Specializes in the rural development sector. About 8 years experience in areas, such as; rural development, project management, project implementation in the area of micro credit & micro enterprise development through cluster development approach. Implemented various projects with several agencies in the sector of small & medium enterprise development.

Rajiv Joshi, BBA, PGDMM, MMM, MIMA
11 years of cross-functional and cross-cultural experience in academics and industry. Published articles and papers on Advertising, Marketing, General Management and Services Marketing in various magazines and journals. Teaches “Marketing for Entrepreneurs” course and other Marketing related courses at the institute.

Umesh K Menon, M.Com., MBA (Finance), AICWA
Specialises in the areas of finance and accounts with 16 years experience in Government and Industry. Presently involved in counselling existing entrepreneurs for growth; training bankers and investment promotion officers in the area of project appraisal; teaching finance, accounts and small business management to PG students.

Manoj Mishra, PDFM, FRI (Dehradun)
Specialises in the area of Rural Development. About 12 years of experience in providing support to social development, project management and co-ordination in the area of sustainable livelihood issues, Micro-enterprise Development (particularly farm and off-farm sector), Micro-finance, Social research methods and MIS for monitoring and evaluation. Is currently involved in conducting training in the field of agri-business, for rural & small business consultants and providing capacity building support to NGOs for best practices in micro-finance.

Sasi Misra, Ph.D. (Psychology), University of California
Ford Scholar, Harvard Business School; Visiting Professor, McGill University, Canada; University of Munich and University of Bamberg, Germany. An Alexander Humboldt Fellow (Germany), Shastri Indo-Canadian Fellow (Canada) and Commonwealth Faculty Research Fellow (UK). Currently, he is Editor of The Journal of Entrepreneurship. Has over 50 publications in prestigious national and international journals. He has been Senior Professor of Organizational Behaviour at IIM-Ahmedabad for over three decades and Vice-Chancellor, Behrampur University, Orissa.

V. Padmanand, M. Phil CRENIEO, M. Phil., Cambridge, UK, PGDMM
An Economist, specialising in business economics and management, applied macro economics and environmental economics. Currently engaged in research, consultancy and programmes related to growth and business strategy of small and medium enterprises. Elected to the status of Fellow in national and international bodies.

Sanjay Pal, M.Sc. (Economics), MBA (Marketing)
Specializes in Cluster Development and Rural Marketing. Handling the activities of the International Centre for Cluster Competitiveness and Growth (IC3G) and also engaged in providing strategic support to the 12 SME cluster programmes in the country. Conducted series of Cluster Development Executives (CDE) Programme for the Govt. Officials and implementing agencies. Recently conducted a study on the Regional SME Development and Cluster/Value Chains & BDS Market. Also handling Rural Marketing Projects/Programmes targeting the NGO sector.

Vinod Paratkar, B.Com., PGDM
Involved for the last 18 years in research in HRM practices and business strategies, cross cultural aspects, studies in fruit and agro processing industries, TBI in India, potential survey, labour market survey for ILO, training of trainers & teachers. Presently, Advisor at the Lao India Entrepreneurship Development Centre (LIEDC), Vientiane, Lao PDR.

D M Parikh, B.E. (Mechanical), M.Tech ( Ind. Mgt; IIT, KGP)
An engineer with Industrial Management Education at post-graduate level. Equipped with 28 years experience in industrial activities. About 7 years as an Industrial Engineer with exclusive experience on productivity improvement, line balancing as well as various diagnostic studies for facility improvement and improving efficiency of industrial resources. About 21 years extensive experience in all facets of Development Banking comprising project appraisal, financial services, merchant banking, recovery management and resource mobilization.

J.B.Patel, B.Sc(Chem.),B.Sc(Tech.)
More than 3 decades of experience in the areas of business opportunity identification, project formulation, project appraisal, counselling and guiding the entrepreneurs. Conducted more than 10 international programmes and worked as an expert in a number of developing countries in the above fields. Also Local Representative for the Netherland Senior Experts Organisation.

C.R. Patnaik, PGDM
19 years of experience in conducting Rural Entrepreneurship Development Programmes. Currently involved in imparting behavioural inputs in REDPs.

Rajkumar Phatate, B. Com, MBA (Marketing and Finance)
A seasoned entrepreneurship trainer/teacher with more than 22 years of experience in facilitating and training in the areas of new enterprise creation, capacity building of existing entrepreneurs and ETMs. His areas of interest include group enterprise development, cluster development, facilitating knowledge ventures, entrepreneurship education and performance improvement and growth of existing SMEs.

N Ramesh, M. Sc, Chemistry
Specializes in identifying business opportunities in the areas of Food Processing, Electronics and IT. 22 years of work experience as an Entrepreneur Trainer Motivator.

Arvind Sahay, Ph.D (Com.), M.Sc. (Stat), PGDCA
Specializes in micro enterprise creation and entrepreneurship development activities. 12 years of work experience in Entrepreneurship Development with specialization in training and development of entrepreneurs by coordinating “Science & Technology Entrepreneurship Development Project” and “Rural Industries Programmes” with special focus on project evaluation. Presently based at Northern Regional office at Lucknow.

S.B. Sareen, Diploma in Textile Technology, D.I.M, D.I.M.O.(Hons), D.M.M
Twenty three years of experience in conducting entrepreneurship related training programmes on New Enterprise Creation, Business Counselling and Growth for Existing Entrepreneurs and Faculty Development. Specialises in training Resource Persons (trainers) at national and international levels. Worked in various countries and has been involved as Country Director Sudan in the Inter Regional Investment Promotion Programme of UNIDO. Visiting faculty at DA-IICT, NID and IIFT, New Delhi. Member of State Level Advisory Committee of SISI, Govt. of India and Member of the National Expert Committee of NSTEDB, Dept. of Science & Technology, Govt. of India.

Bipin H. Shah, B.Sc.(Chem.), MBA(Finance)
A business management specialist with 31 years of experience in consultancy and industry in the areas of project formulation and appraisal, project planning and implementation and enterprise management. Has been Managing Director of Gujarat Industrial & Technical Consultancy Organisation Ltd. and Member of the Governing Council of CDC, Ministry of Science & Technology, Govt. of India. He is on experts' panel of EXIM Bank of India. Specialises in plastic industry and has exposure in chemical and pharma sectors. Represented India in Rotary Group Study Exchange Programme to Scotland.

K.K.Shaw, B.E.(Hons.) Mechanical, PGBEM
Specialisation in technology related to design and development, forging, castings, machining, fabrication, metallurgy, heat-treatment and plating science. Presently engaged in cluster development of engineering sectors. Experience in transfer of technology from advanced countries for manufacturing hi-tech aerospace equipments, machine tools and automobiles in India.

B.B.Siddiqui, Ph.D (Psychology)
Specialises in Clinical and Organisational Psychology. Trained to conduct personal growth laboratory training programmes and group dynamics. Currently involved in programmes on HRD, Organisational Behaviour, Personality and Leadership Development. A registered Counsellor-Psychologist with Rehabilitation Council of India, New Delhi.

Prakash Solanki, B.Sc. (Chem.), PGDPPT, PGDBM, PGDRD, LL.M.
Specialises in new enterprise creation and entrepreneurship development activities. 9 years extensive experience in entrepreneurship development through different ED activity models. Expertise in implementation of ED programmes and capacity building of NGOs. Involved in the national project on food processing industries sponsored by the Ministry of Food Processing Industries, Govt. of India & Urban Poverty Alleviation Project sponsored by Govt. of India & UNDP. )

Pramod Srivastava, M.A. (Economics)
Specialises in promoting micro enterprises in rural areas and provides extensive back-up support to NGOs in their capacity building. Presently working in the N E region.

P.N.Srivastava, M.Com
Involved in successful organisation of REDPs in Bihar and Jharkhand. 14 years of work experience in providing training inputs in various programmes of EDI such as; REDP, EDP, TIP, NGO Banker Interface, IMCDS, RIP, STEDs, Sanitation Project for UNICEF and coordinating field projects.

V.S. Sukumaran, LL. B, PGDHRD, PGDTD, PGDM, MBA (IGNOU)
Specialist in Group Entrepreneurship and Micro Credit. Presently involved in counselling and training of existing entrepreneurs. 15 years experience in NGO networking.

Thimmappa. K, Ph.D (Agricultural Economics)
Specializes in the areas of production economics and agricultural marketing. Worked with the Centre for Management in Agriculture, Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru College of Agriculture and Research Institute, Union Territory of Pondicherry before joining EDI. His research and consultancy interests are in the areas of market research, agri business competitiveness and agricultural trade policy issues.

Subhransu Tripathy, M. A. (Sociology), Ph D (Economics)
Has worked as Assistant Professor, Centre for Rural Studies at the LBS National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie for seven years and worked as Researcher in reputed Economic Research Organization for one year. Completed research on rural development, participatory approaches, micro finance, land reforms and the NPO sector. Areas of interest are Econometrics, Micro & Macro Economics and Development Economics.

D. D. Trivedi, M.Com, B.A.
A Management Consultant, associated as a Distinguished Visiting Faculty with leading Management Institutions like IIM-A, MDI, UTI Institute of Capital Market. He is on the Board of Directors of a number of companies. He is actively involved in Non-Governmental Organisations working in the fields of micro-finance and micro-insurance. His areas of specialisation are Financial Management and Corporate Strategy.

Mayank Upadhyay, ACWA
Specialises in the areas of finance, management accounting, project planning and strategic management with extensive experience in Development Banking and Commercial Banking. Involved in conceptualising and conducting a number of national and international programmes in corporate financial strategy formulation and management, investment decisions, risk analysis, and control systems.

Jignasu Yagnik, M.Sc., DCO, MBA
Specialises in the areas of information technology and statistical analysis. Associated with research and academics for more than 18 years. Involved in many state & national level research projects. Current interests include; data-base management, computer aided data analysis, data mining and e-CRM.

• Mr. Binoy Acharya
  Director, UNNATI, A'bad
• Shri D. Borgia,
  Chief Consultant, Hospitality, Ahmedabad
• Dr. Anita Basalingappa
  MICA, Ahmedabad
• Prof. P. K. Chugan
  Faculty, Nirma Institute of Mgt.
• Prof. Bharat Dalal
  Former Professor, IIM, Ahmedabad
• Mr. Umesh Desai
  AKRSP (I), Ahmedabad
• Shri Bharat Gangula
  IIM, Ahmedabad
• Mr. Hari Goyal
  Rural Marketing Consultant
• Dr. G. S. Gupta
  IIM, Ahmedabad
• Mr. Mahesh C. Gupta
  Company Secretary, Ahmedabad
• Dr. Easwaran Iyer
  Sri Bhagwan Mahaveer Jain College, Bangalore
• Prof. Jerome Joseph
  Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
• Dr. Satyakam Joshi
  Associate Professor
  Centre for Social Studies, Surat
• Prof. Vidyut Joshi
  Director, Chimanbhai Patel Institute of Mgt. & Research
• Mr. Mayur Mecwan
  H. K. Arts College, Ahmedabad
• Mr. B.P. Murali
  Former Sr. Faculty, EDI, Ahmedabad
• Mr. Venkatesh Pamu
  IIM - A
• Dr. Rasanand Panda
  Institute of Petroleum Management,
  Gandhinagar
• Dr. V. G. Patel
  Former Vice-President's Director EDI, Ahmedabad
• Mr. Mahesh Pandya
  Director, Paryavaran Mitra,
  Ahmedabad
• Mr. Sachin Oza
  Executive Director, Development Support Centre, Ahmedabad
• Mr. Chandrashekhar Pathak
  Watershed Expert, Rtr. Executive Engineer, Govt. of Rajasthan
• Mr. Gagan Sethi
  Janvikas, Ahmedabad>
• Mr. Rajesh Shah
  MD, SAVE Ltd., Ahmedabad
• Mr. Jagat Shah
  Global Network, Ahmedabad
• Mr. Rajiv Shah
  Financial Mgt. Expert
• Mr. Vivek Shah
  Management Consultant
• Ms. Nupur Sinha
  Executive Director, Centre For Social Justice, Ahmedabad
• Prof. Arbind Sinha
  Sr. Faculty, MICA
• Prof. A. A. Shaikh
  HOD (Economics Dept.)
• Mr. N. V. Suchak,
  C.A. Ahmedabad,
• Prof. Rajeev Sharma
  Senior Faculty, IIM-A
• Prof. Hemant Trivedi
  MICA, Ahmedabad
• Dr. K. G. K. Warrier
  Deputy Director, NIST (CSIR)
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