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PLANNING FOR THE YEAR 2025-26 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 and a Dr. Satya Ranjan Acharya is a National
half decades of experience in entrepreneurship Teacher's Awardee 2023. His extensive
development, Start-ups/MSME growth and experience in teaching and consultancy,
Intrapreneurship Development. Dr. Shukla has spanning over 26 years, underscores his deep
introduced entrepreneurship courses at EDII and expertise in financial management, idea
other premier institutions. An industry expert and generation and business plan formulation. He
The Annual Plan discussions for 2025-26 started with reflection over our past corporate strategist, he played a key role in the is trained at Startup Accelerators through
achievements and the feeling of great satisfaction over the expansion and outreach of formulation of EDII Business Strategy 2025-35, MASHAV - Israel's Agency for International D e v
EDII activities. There is a strong resolve to institute novel and more market-relevant integrating Institutional objectives with the wider e l o p m e n t C o o p e r a t i o n a n d i n t h e
projects and programmes, in the coming year, alongside strengthening the monitoring national mandates. He is the recipient of several Application of Simulation for Entrepreneurship
processes and policies to ensure the desired outcomes from the activities. Building on notable awards for his contributions to policy Teaching at the University of Tennessee, USA.
this plank, the faculty team deliberated on the initiatives for the year 2025 -26. This year advocacy, training, entrepreneurship education, He is the Director of CrAdLE, a DST-sponsored
becomes special to us for another reason as well. We are implementing EDII's business livelihood development and for extending the incubator and Atal Incubation Centre at EDII.
Dr.Acharya is also significantly contributing to
frontiers of entrepreneurship, nationally and
strategy 2025-35. Need I add, the discussions on the Annual Plan of Activities 2025-26, globally. Dr. Shukla is the editor of the prestigious m e g a i n i t i a t i v e s l i k e t h e S t u d e n t
centered around the guidelines and principles, listed out in the strategy document. ‘Journal of Entrepreneurship,’ and since 2012, has Entrepreneurship Policy and Hastakala Setu
been leading the Indian Chapter of the world’s Yojana of the Government of Gujarat.
This document introduces certain need-based strategic and structural organizational largest Annual Study on entrepreneurship (GEM).
changes to leverage technological advancements in Industry 4.0; reach out to priority
groups; create more successful startups & new enterprises through training, incubation
and innovation; harness global entrepreneurial opportunities; undertake rigorous policy
advocacy, offer time-relevant skill development training and overall comprehensive
solutions to concerns at national and international levels. Raman Gujral Amit K. Dwivedi
Ph.D. (Commerce) Ph.D. (Commerce)
The academic departments and centers have been restructured around these mandates. ramangujral@ediindia.org akdwivedi@ediindia.org
All in all, inclusive growth, achievement of the VIKSIT BHARAT goal, implementation of
National Education Policy 2020, focus on entrepreneurship/skill education & training, Has around 31 years of experience in the field Has over 20 years of teaching and research
innovation, incubation and MSME development and growth will be the focused of Entrepreneurship Development with experience. He is a National Team Member of the
outcomes. 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
The EDII business strategy has come about after elaborate brainstorming sessions and He has developed curriculum, modules, and and a Global Report on Women’s Entrepreneurship
evaluations of multiple perspectives emanating from stalwarts, who were part of the structures for various entrepreneurship Report: From Crisis to Opportunity. He has
committees at different tiers of the process. The Annual Plan 2025-26, kept an eye on the development activities and for CSR activities authored research papers, book chapters, reviews
requirements and essentials as assessed, the evolving market paradigms and the AI-ML of noted corporate. Specializes in the areas of and a textbook. Dr. Dwivedi has presented his
era. Sustainable Livelihood, Micro Enterprise research at national and international
Development, Women & Skill-Preneurship, conferences in India and abroad. He conducted
Business Opportunity Identification, and impact assessment and evaluation studies for
The new parameters and factors will now guide us through the coming year and after. We Business Plan Preparation. various Government Departments and
are excited about venturing into the first year after the strategy implementation. There are Development Agencies. Dr. Dwivedi participated
goals and mandates which we are certain about achieving, and thus will thus place the in a Training of Trainers programme for teaching
Nation a few notches up on the entrepreneurship and start up graph. 'Business Simulation', organized by ILS, held at the
- Sunil Shukla University of Tennessee, Texas, USA.

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