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EDII FACULTY EDII FACULTY
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 Sheetal Thomas
Post Doc (Entrepreneurship) Ph.D. (Financial Behaviour)
Ph.D. (Management) MBA (Finance)
MBA (Finance) sheetal@ediindia.org
abdulrazak@ediindia.org
Dr. Sheetal Thomas has over 20 years of
Dr. Abdul Razak has over 15 years for experience in academia and research. She is
experience in the Industry and Academia. currently pursuing a Post Doctoral Fellowship
While he has worked as a Management at the University of Evora, Portugal, focusing on
Consultant, he has also served as a faculty financial decision-making. A Ph.D. from BITS,
member in various notable universities and Pilani, she has published her research work in
organizations. Some of the reputable Scopus-indexed journals. Dr. Thomas has
organizations that he has been associated authored a reference book and written several
with, include; Amazon, Deloitte, Genpact, First case studies. She has a patent published on a
American Corporation, Starlight Capital Inc., method for identifying financial behavior
and Citations Publishers. Widely travelled, Dr. through handwriting analysis. Her teaching
Razak has published over 20 research articles expertise spans financial accounting and
in National and International Scopus Journals, costing for entrepreneurship, behavioural
authored 3 Books and has presented research finance, and cognitive finance. She has
papers at more than 25 National and participated in numerous international
International Conferences and Seminars. conferences and workshops.
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Deepak Kumar Yogi
Ph.D. (Social Policy)
M.Phil (Social work)
deepakyogi@ediindia.org
Development practitioner and researcher with
15 years of experience across government,
academia and the NGO sectors. He possesses
expertise in community-based institution
building, livelihood promotion, financial
inclusion, project management and field
research. He has led projects funded by
national agencies like the Dept. of Rural
D eve l o p m e n t , N A B A R D, M i n i s t r y
Environment and Forest, National Academy of
Sciences India and CSR such as GAIL, HUF and
Hans Foundation. His international experience
spans countries like the Philippines, Malaysia,
China, Russia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand,
Bangladesh and Nepal.
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
o f 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.