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EDII FACULTY

A L N Prasad Smita Chetia Talukdar
MBA (Finance) Ph.D. (Biotechnology)
PG Dip. PMIR & LW smitatalukdar@ediindia.org
alnprasad@ediindia.org

Possesses over 21 years of teaching and research
Has over 23 years of experience in the fields of
experience in areas such as Tissue Culture,
Entrepreneurship Development and Greenfield Project
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and has six papers
Promotion. He has experience and expertise in
to her credit. As an expert in project designing,
business opportunity guidance, preparing technically implementation and monitoring, she has worked as
feasible and economically viable project feasibility Project Manager in Employment Generation Mission,
reports, organizing entrepreneurship development Government of Assam for a period of 5 years. She has
programmes and undertaking evaluation studies. experience of handling various livelihood and skill
Organizing various Executive development development projects of Government of Assam for
programmes and leadership development generating employment and upgrading the skills of
youth. For last five years, actively involved in several
programmes for public and Private Sector corporations
G ove r n m e nt a n d C o r p o rate p ro j e c t s fo r
is also his forte. He has a blend of experience in semi-
entrepreneurship development in the NER of India
govt organisation, corporate sector and led the HRD&
through cluster development, microenterprise
CSR division in tech-Management consultancy /
development, student and faculty programmes to
Cement / Ceramics / FMCG sector. His specific areas of name a few.
specialization include Finance / HR and General
Administration.
Ishwar Kumar
Ph.D. (Management)
P. N. Srivastava M.A. (Criminology)
M. Com PGDBA (Marketing), PGDHR (Human Rights)
pnsrivastava@ediindia.org ishwar@ediindia.org

Teaching and research interests include innovation and
new product development, brand management,
Possesses over 30 years of experience in providing
strategic design management, and public policy.
t ra i n i n g i n p u t s a n d c o n d u c t i n g va r i o u s
Presently attached with the Department of Business
entrepreneurship related programmes across sections Development & National Outreach at EDII and is
and sectors of society. Has rich field level experience of engaged in managing activities related to CSR, Cluster
working at the grassroots in various prestigious Development and MSME Development in India.
projects supported by reputed organizations, Awarded with the Highly-Commended Emerald/AIMA
ministries and departments such as; NABARD, KVIC, Indian Management Research Fund Award in 2010.
UNICEF, Dept of Industries, SIDBI, Dept. of Food
Processing, MSME, Department of Science & Hari Baabu V
Technology among many others. His areas of Ph.D. (Computer Science and Engineering)
specialization include entrepreneurship, technology M. Tech (Software Engineering)
B.E. (Computer Science and Engineering)
based entrepreneurship, cluster development,
haribaabu@ediindia.org
Business Plan, Skill Development, New Enterprise
Creation, Project Report preparation, Capacity Building Possesses more than 10 years of experience in
etc. Academics and research. His primary research
interests are in business analytics, statistics, machine

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