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EDII FACULTY

Pankaj Bharti Reshmi Manna
Ph.D. (Psychology) Ph.D. (Psychology)
pbharti@ediindia.org reshmi@ediindia.org

Has over 24 years of teaching and research She possesses 22 years of experience in
experience. Specialises in Social Psychology, industry and academics. Her key areas of
Organisational Behaviour and Research specialization include; research, business
Methods. He is trained in conceptualising and analytics, entrepreneurship, behavioural
developing measurement tools for social science, human resource management,
science research. He has published nine business strategy, operations and quality
papers and a book - Dehumanisation of Urban analysis. She has worked with esteemed names
and Rural Poor. Core competency lies in like ITPO, IBM, ICFAI University, and NTPC and
psychometric assessment administration and has undertaken consultancy projects with
reporting. He is associated with over 20 NTPC, BSES Yamuna, Eternal Mewar, and FICCI.
national as well as international research She is also a master trainer for applied data-
projects and is a National Team Member of driven decision-making for Leaders. Her books,
Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), India. book chapters, research papers and
Has co authored nine GEM India Reports. publications have drawn wide acclaim.

Prakash Solanki Rajesh Gupta
Ph.D. (Entrepreneurship) Ph.D. (Management)
psolanki@ediindia.org rajesh@ediindia.org

Specialises in conducting projects A business management professional with
/programmes for New Enterprise Creation and more than 2 decades of work experience in
C a p a c i t y B u i l d i n g o f d e v e l o p m e n t industry and development sector. He has
organisations. Possesses 25 years of worked extensively in the areas of creative co
experience in the field of entrepreneurship creation in livelihoods and has promoted rural
d e v e l o p m e n t , w i t h e x p e r t i s e i n micro-enterprises in various sectors.
entrepreneurship concept, process and Currently under the Ministry of Rural
practice, business opportunity guidance, Development Project, he is involved in
innovations, business plan and enterprise promoting nano enterprises in rural areas
creation process. Presently implementing across the country. His thematic areas of
projects to promote entrepreneurship among interest include development studies, sub-
women & PwDs in Maharashtra sponsored by sector analysis, livelihoods, institutional
TATA Communications Ltd. & TATA Power. innovations in informal sector, value chain,
Also involved in capacity building & new product & design development and
entrepreneurship development programmes social entrepreneurship.
for SC / ST youth and promoting S&T based
entrepreneurship.

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