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