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EDII FACULTY

Sr. Advisor Sr. Advisor
Harkesh Mittal Pravir Krishna IAS (Retd.)
PGDMA, B.Sc. (Dairy MA (Economics)
Technology) pravirkrishna@ediindia.org
hkmittal@ediindia.org
A former IAS Officer, Mr. Krishna, has held a wide
Alumnus of National Dairy Research spectrum of positions with the Govt. of Madhya
Institute and IIM Ahmedabad, Shri Harkesh Pradesh & Govt, of India, over his illustrious career
Mittal, Former Adviser & Head, NSTEDB, DST, spanning 34 years. A 'Doer and Change Maker', as
Govt. of India, has been instrumental in Managing Director of TRIFED, he engineered the
giving a new vibrancy to promoting turnaround of TRIFED as a major promoter of micro
innovation and entrepreneurial acumen local enterprises, owned wholly by the tribal self-
a m o n g a w i d e s e c t i o n o f I n d i a n help groups. He conceptualized and set up over
entrepreneurs ranging from grass-roots 50,000 Vandhan SHGs subsumed into 3000
industries to high-end deep-tech enterprises Vandhan clusters, onboarding more than 9.83 Lakh
for nearly four decades. He was responsible forest dwelling tribals for value addition and
f o r t h e c o n c e p t u a l i s a t i o n a n d marketing of NTFP and agro forestry related
implementation of many innovation and products. The initiative has led to the modelling
e n t r e p r e n e u r s h i p d e v e l o p m e n t Pradhan Mantri Janjatiya Vikas Program under the
programmes. In 2017, he was awarded the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Government of India. He
Best Mentor award by the Ministry of Skill has authored two Books, 'Price Behaviour In A
Development and Entrepreneurship, GoI. Planned Economy' and 'Tryst With The Tribes:
Tales from Tribal Heartlands'.

Sr. Project Leader Livelihood Expert
Raj Vashisth Sheeba Roberts
Bachelor of Fashion Executive MBA (Marketing
Technology & Strategy)
spl@ediindia.org sheeba@ediindia.org

Backed with experience of over 7 year, NIFT An alumna of IIM Raipur, with over 16 years of
alumnus, Mr. Vashisth has worked in the experience in the development sector, she has
Industry, Government and Academia. He has worked on Central & State Govt programmes
served in MNCs like Gap Inc. and Asmara of Rural & Urban Development Department,
Apparels and is well versed in machining Non-Govt Organizations & CSR projects
processes and production systems. His tenure addressing the areas of skill development,
with TRIFED, Govt. of India gave him self-employment, communications, institution
opportunities to engage productively with the building, capacity building, livelihoods,
tribal sector. His areas of specialization include; research & entrepreneurship development.
Social Research, Public Policy Formulation & Ms. Roberts has also handled an International
Implementation, General Administration, funded GFR -09 project on Advocacy & Social
Marketing and Supply Chain Management. Mobilization in the health sector.

Sr. Librarian
Ganapathi Batthini Coordinator of the Centre for Research in
Master in Library & E n t r e p r e n e u r s h i p E d u c a t i o n a n d
Information Science Development (CREED) at EDII, and contributes
ganapathi@ediindia.org majorly towards the publication of the Journal
of Entrepreneurship. A noted editor and author
A library and information science professional, of Conference Proceedings and Books, Mr.
with over three decades of experience, he heads Ganpathi also has 30 research papers to his
EDII's library and information centre. He is the credit.
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