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Sivan Ambattu Ananthavalli Ramesh
Master in Social Work Ph.D. (Technology Management)
sivan@ediindia.org B.E. ( Production Engineering)
ananthavalli@ediindia.org
A versatile professional in the field of Dr. Ananthavalli Ramesh is dedicated to
entrepreneurship and project management. fostering entrepreneurship education for
Developed strong linkages with state higher education students. She leads
government, national, and international InnovateEDU, focusing on entrepreneurship
developmental agencies besides bilateral skill development in Tamil Nadu. With a Ph.D.
and multilateral organizations. Areas of and M.S. by Research from IIT Madras, she has
specialization includes strategy formulation, 16 years of experience in project management
d o n o r m a n a g e m e n t , p a r t n e r s h i p and automotive design at Volvo, Caterpillar, and
development, establishing rural business Royal Enfield. She researches rural women
institutions, value-chain development, cluster entrepreneurship and contributes to DST
development, start-up facilitation, incubation projects and digital innovation at EDII. Her
m a n a g e m e n t , & yo u t h a n d w o m e n expertise spans mentoring startups, business
entrepreneurship. Expert in rebuilding the decision-making, and digital transformation,
economy after natural disasters like Tsunami driving impactful change in India's
and Earthquake. Authored 12 publications entrepreneurial ecosystem.
and several articles and reports.
Abdul Razak Deepak Kumar Yogi
Post Doc (Entrepreneurship) Ph.D. (Social Policy)
Ph.D. (Management) M.Phil (Social work)
MBA (Finance) deepakyogi@ediindia.org
abdulrazak@ediindia.org
Development practitioner and researcher with
Dr. Abdul Razak has over 15 years for 15 years of experience across government,
experience in the Industry and Academia. academia and the NGO sectors. He possesses
While he has worked as a Management expertise in community-based institution
Consultant, he has also served as a faculty building, livelihood promotion, financial
member in various notable universities and inclusion, project management and field
organizations. Some of the reputable research. He has led projects funded by
organizations that he has been associated national agencies like the Dept. of Rural
with, include; Amazon, Deloitte, Genpact, First D eve l o p m e n t , N A B A R D, M i n i s t r y o f
American Corporation, Starlight Capital Inc., Environment and Forest, National Academy of
and Citations Publishers. Widely travelled, Dr. Sciences India and CSR such as GAIL, HUF and
Razak has published over 20 research articles Hans Foundation. His international experience
in National and International Scopus Journals, spans countries like the Philippines, Malaysia,
authored 3 Books and has presented research China, Russia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand,
papers at more than 25 National and Bangladesh and Nepal.
International Conferences and Seminars.
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Bishnu Prasad Panda
MA ( Economics); LLB
MBA (Financial Management )
bishnu@ediindia.org
He possesses over 37 years of experience in
Micro-Finance, Micro-Enterprise Promotion,
Livelihood and Cluster Development
Programmes. Has worked extensively with
national and international agencies like the
Centre for Youth & Social Development
(CYSD), Rashtriya Gramin Vikas Nidhi
(RGVN), CARE and Access Development
Services on enhancing the capacities of
national-level NGOs, CBOs and BMOs. Also
worked as a Consultant for a World Bank
study on pani panchayat, SHG and PRI. His
areas of specialisations are financial
management, cluster development, livelihood
promotion and enterprise promotion.
T. A. Nikita
Ph.D. ( Finance )
C.A.; M.Phil. (Commerce)
afsa-a@ediindia.org
A teacher in the areas of Accounting,
Costing, Management Accounting,
Taxation and Finance. She possesses over
21 years of experience in academia and
industry. Currently pursuing a Ph.D. on the
topic 'To Study the Acceptance Level of
Technology in Personal Finance with
Reference to different Demographics and -
economic factors of Investors in Selected
Cities of Gujarat.' At EDII, she is involved in
teaching postgraduate students,
coordinating key National level programs
& mentoring the research work of PGDM-E
students.
Gopal Kumar Roy
B.Tech
(Mechanical Engineering)
gopal@ediindia.org
An engineer, management consultant, startup
evangelist and a trainer, Mr. Roy holds more
than 10 years of work experience in the MSME,
startup and consultancy domains. He has
provided consulting services in MSME
assignments across industrial and traditional
clusters and has conducted training and
capacity building programmes for various
stakeholders. His areas of interest and
experience include industrial infrastructure
development, cluster development, business-
plan / DPR preparation, execution and project
management, monitoring & evaluation, design
thinking process, development of business
models and BDS & market development.
Zahoor Ahmad Paray
FPM; M.Phil. (Development
Economics)
zahoor@ediindia.org
An academician and researcher with 9 years
of experience, Mr. Paray's areas of
specialization include development
economics, entrepreneurship development,
entrepreneurship finance, venture growth,
and entrepreneurial marketing. He has
participated in many international and
national conferences and presented his
research. He is widely published, including 8
research articles in Scopus and ABDC
indexed journals.