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Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur; decade of experience in consulting, research,
Dr. Tripathy is presently involved in teaching teaching, mentoring, and manpower
Strategic Finance, Financial Derivatives, planning. His areas of research and interest
Financial Accounting, Management include Strategic Human Resource
Accounting. He has several book chapters, M a n a ge m e nt , I nte l l e c t u a l C a p i ta l
papers and research publications to his credit. Management, Knowledge Management,
Innovation, and Organizational Demography
Rajeev Sharma with a strong publication record in journals of
Ph.D. (Industrial Economics) international repute. He is involved in teaching
rajeev@ediindia.org courses on Human Resource Management,
Research Methodology, Organizational
Dr. Rajeev Sharma has more than 16 years of B e h av i o r, B u s i n e s s E t h i c s , S o c i a l
experience in academics along with six years in Entrepreneurship, HR Analytics, Research
the development sector of industrial Methodology. Prior to EDII, he worked for
clusters/SMEs. He has worked on Industrial Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham for more than 5
Clusters Project - 'Promoting Innovation in years.
Clusters - funded by DST GoI; DFID funded
SIDBI-PMD BDS project 'Implementing P. N. Srivastava
Business Development Services' and has M. Com
handled implementation and coordination, pnsrivastava@ediindia.org
including research and training under
different projects for different verticals in Possesses over 29 years of experience in
industrial clusters. He has also conducted TOT providing training inputs and conducting
programme in clusters to make SMEs va r i o u s e nt re p re n e u rs h i p re l ate d
sustainable under UNIDO project for capacity programmes across sections and sectors of
building of CDAs in Teheran, Iran and has society. Has rich field level experience of
worked as a consultant with 'Competitiveness: working at the grassroots in various
The Cluster Competitiveness Group', based in prestigious projects supported by reputed
Barcelona (for its operations in India). Dr. organizations, ministries and departments
Sharma has publications in reputed journals such as; NABARD, KVIC, UNICEF, Dept of
and has presented several research papers in Industries, SIDBI, Dept. of Food Processing,
national and international conferences. MSME, Department of Science & Technology
a m o n g m a ny o t h e rs . H i s a re a s o f
Saswata Barpanda specialization include entrepreneurship,
Ph.D. Management-Strategic HRM technology based entrepreneurship, cluster
M.Phil. development, Business Plan, Skill
saswata@ediindia.org Development, New Enterprise Creation,
Project Report preparation, Capacity Building
Dr. Saswat is having a PhD from IIT Kharagpur etc.
in the area of Strategic HRM, with more than a
Gautam Mazumdar through cluster development, microenterprise
Bachelor of Commerce development, student and faculty programmes to
PGDBM (International Business), name a few.
Fellowship (Social Enterprise)
gautam@ediindia.org Bishnu Prasad Panda
M.A. (Economics), LLB,
Possesses work experience of over 20 years in Project MBA (Financial Management)
Design, Implementation, Evaluation, Action based CSWA
Research and Knowledge Development activities at bishnu@ediindia.org
National and International level in domain area of
Livelihood and Entrepreneurship for the Pro-Poor / Possesses over 32 years of experience in Micro-Finance,
Informal Sector and Disability Program Area. He has Micro-Enterprise Promotion, Livelihood and Cluster
played Leadership role in key projects for Organizations Development Programmes. Has worked extensively
viz. Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, VSO (UK)/British with national and international agencies like the Centre
Council, Rockefeller Foundation, Villgro, BAIF for Youth & Social Development (CYSD), Rashtriya
Development Research Foundation, NRLM Projects- Gramin Vikas Nidhi (RGVN), CARE and Access
SVEP. He has publications in International Journals. He Development Services on enhancing the capacities of
is also working in an advisory role as National Resource national-level NGOs, CBOs and BMOs. Also worked as a
Person [NRP] in Non-Farm Sector under NRLM Program, Consultant for a World Bank study on pani panchayat,
Ministry of Rural Development [ MoRD] , Govt. of India. SHG and PRI. His areas of specialisations are financial
management, cluster development, livelihood
promotion and enterprise promotion. Participated in an
Smita Chetia Talukdar exposure visit to Bangladesh for studying Garameen
Ph.D. (Biotechnology) Bank, Posika , ASA and BRAC Models in ,microfinance
smitatalukdar@ediindia.org promotion.
Possesses over 20 years of teaching and research Sivan Ambattu
experience in areas such as Tissue Culture, PGDRD, MSW
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and has six papers sivan@ediindia.org
to her credit. As an expert in project designing,
implementation and monitoring, she has worked as A n e x p e r t i n p r o j e c t m a n a g e m e n t a n d
Project Manager in Employment Generation Mission, entrepreneurship, he specialises in strategy
Government of Assam for a period of 5 years. She has formulation, donor management, partnership
experience of handling various livelihood and skill development and in establishing rural business
development projects of Government of Assam for institutions. He brought international training
generating employment and upgrading the skills of programmes like EYB and SIYB to India. He has worked
youth. For last five years, actively involved in several with multilateral agencies. His specialisation includes
G o ve r n m e nt a n d C o r p o rate p ro j e c t s fo r value-chain development, cluster development, youth
entrepreneurship development in the NER of India e n t r e p r e n e u r s h i p , a n d g r o u p & w o m e n