More than 39 years of experience in design & development, manufacturing, metallurgy, quality control and assemblies of automobiles, machine tools, textile machines and defense missiles. Engaged in development of engineering clusters like automobiles, agriculture machinery and several other engineering industries. Experience in transfer of technology from advanced countries for manufacturing hi-tech aerospace equipments, machine tools and automobiles in India.

Teaching and training interests are in organizational behaviour, human resource management, entrepreneurship education and development of youth. Research interests include entry barriers to entrepreneurship and curriculum development. Consulting interests are in the areas of entrepreneurial and managerial competence development, family business management, HR Issues and organizational culture. Has been helping medium to large sized firms for strategic planning and capacity building of people to groom their Managers as Intrapreneurs and help create conducive climate for corporate entrepreneurship. Has been a visiting faculty at premier management institutions in the country.

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.

Specialises in new enterprise creation and entrepreneurship development activities. 12 years of extensive experience in entrepreneurship development through different ED activity models. Expertise in implementation of ED programmes and capacity building of NGOs. Presently involved in two national projects, DST-NIMAT project sponsored by S & T Ministry, Govt. of India and Food Processing Industries Project sponsored by the Ministry of Food Processing Industries, GoI.

Specialises in promoting micro enterprises in rural areas and provides extensive back-up support to NGOs in their capacity building. Also involved in Cluster Development Initiatives.

18 years of work experience in providing training inputs in various programmes like REDP, EDP, TTP, NGO-Banker Interface, IMCDS, RIP, STED, Total Sanitation Programme of UNICEF, DRIP, Cluster Development Programmes, REGP and also in coordinating field projects. Presently working at EDI – Gorakhpur office.

Specialises in Group Entrepreneurship, Micro & Small Enterprise Development and Micro Credit. About 17 years experience in enterprise development. Presently engaged in cluster development, sub-sector analysis and business counselling.

Specializes in the areas of farm 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, agribusiness competitiveness and agricultural trade policy issues.

Worked as Assistant Professor at Centre for Rural Studies (CRS), Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (Govt. of India) for seven years. Has held the post of I/c Professor of Dr. Ambedkar Chair on Social Justice for a period of two years. He has several publications on rural development published by CRS and other publishers for the Ministry of Rural Development, Govt. of India to his credit. Has worked extensively in the areas of Rural Development, Microfinance and NGO Governance.

A Management Consultant, associated as a Distinguished Visiting Faculty with EDI. Has also been associated with Management Institutions like IIM-A, MDI, UTI Institute of Capital Market. He is on the Board of Directors of a number of companies and also actively involved in NGOs working in the fields of micro-finance and micro-insurance. His areas of specialisation are Financial Management and Corporate Strategy.

Specialises in the areas of finance, management accounting, project planning and strategic management with extensive experience in development banking, commercial banking, management consulting and NGO management. Involved in conceptualising and conducting a number of national and international programmes in corporate financial strategic planning and management, investment decisions, risk analysis, and developing control systems.

Specializes in the areas of information technology and statistical analysis. Associated with research and academics for more than 21 years. Involved in many state and national level research projects. Current interests include; data-base management, MIS, data mining, e-CRM, VBA programming, research methods and computer aided data analysis.