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EDII FACULTY

Sunil Shukla Satya Ranjan Acharya
Director General Ph.D. (Economics)
Ph.D. (Psychology) MBA (Finance)
dg@ediindia.org satya@ediindia.org

Dr. Sunil Shukla, possesses more than three Dr. Satya Ranjan Acharya is a National
decades of experience in entrepreneurship Teacher’s Awardee 2023. His extensive
d e v e l o p m e n t . A l o n g s i d e p i o n e e r i n g experience in teaching and consultancy,
development models targeting corporate spanning over 25 years, underscores his
executives, Start-ups and MSMEs, Dr. Shukla deep expertise in financial management, idea
has also introduced entrepreneurship courses at generation and business plan formulation.
EDII and premier institutions across the country. He is trained at Startup Accelerators through
He is the recipient of several notable awards for MASHAV - Israel's Agency for International
his contributions to policy advocacy, training, Development Cooperation and in the
entrepreneurship education and livelihood A p p l i c a t i o n o f S i m u l a t i o n f o r
development, and for extending the frontiers of Entrepreneurship Teaching at the University
entrepreneurship, nationally and globally. He is of Tennessee, USA. He is the Director of
editor of the prestigious ‘Journal of CrAdLE, a DST-sponsored incubator and Atal
Entrepreneurship,’ and since 2012, has been Incubation Centre at EDII. Dr. Acharya is also
leading the Indian Chapter of the world’s largest significantly contributing to mega initiatives
Annual Study on entrepreneurship (GEM). His like the Student Entrepreneurship Policy and
extensive work in several global regions Hastakala Setu Yojana of the Government of
including South Asia, South East Asia, CIS, Gujarat.
Middle East, Latin America, Africa, the USA has
been noteworthy.

Raman Gujral Amit K. Dwivedi
Ph.D. (Commerce) Ph.D. (Commerce)
ramangujral@ediindia.org akdwivedi@ediindia.org

Has around 32 years of experience in the field Has over 19 years of teaching and research
of Entrepreneurship Development with experience. He is a National Team Member of the
expertise in new enterprise creation and in Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) India. Dr.
extending support to existing entrepreneurs. Dwivedi has co-authored nine GEM India reports
He has developed curriculum, modules, and and a Global Report on Women’s Entrepreneurship
structures for various entrepreneurship Report: From Crisis to Opportunity. He has
development activities and for CSR activities authored research papers, book chapters, reviews
of noted corporate. Specialises in the areas of and a textbook. Dr. Dwivedi has presented his
business opportunity identification, Strategy, research at national and international
Inclusive Growth, Rural Development, conferences in India and abroad. He conducted
Sustainable Development Goals, and impact assessment and evaluation studies for
Entrepreneurship Development. Widely various Government Departments and
travelled in India and worked on prestigious Development Agencies. Dr. Dwivedi participated
entrepreneurship-related assignments. in a Training of Trainers programme for teaching
'Business Simulation', organized by ILS, held at the
University of Tennessee, Texas, USA.

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