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EDII FACULTY EDII FACULTY

Sivan Ambattu Ananthavalli Ramesh Deepak Kumar Yogi T. A. Nikita
Master in Social Work Ph.D. (Technology Management) Ph.D. (Social Policy) Ph.D. ( Finance )
sivan@ediindia.org B.E. ( Production Engineering) M.Phil (Social work) C.A.; M.Phil. (Commerce)
ananthavalli@ediindia.org deepakyogi@ediindia.org afsa-a@ediindia.org

A versatile professional in the field of Dr. Ananthavalli Ramesh is dedicated to Development practitioner and researcher with
entrepreneurship and project management. fostering entrepreneurship education for 15 years of experience across government, A teacher in the areas of Accounting,
Developed strong linkages with state higher education students. She leads academia and the NGO sectors. He possesses Costing, Management Accounting,
government, national, and international InnovateEDU, focusing on entrepreneurship expertise in community-based institution Taxation and Finance. She possesses over
developmental agencies besides bilateral skill development in Tamil Nadu. With a Ph.D. building, livelihood promotion, financial 21 years of experience in academia and
and multilateral organizations. Areas of and M.S. by Research from IIT Madras, she has inclusion, project management and field industry. Currently pursuing a Ph.D. on the
specialization includes strategy formulation, 16 years of experience in project management research. He has led projects funded by topic 'To Study the Acceptance Level of
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 national agencies like the Dept. of Rural Technology in Personal Finance with
development, establishing rural business Royal Enfield. She researches rural women 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 Reference to different Demographics and -
institutions, value-chain development, cluster entrepreneurship and contributes to DST Environment and Forest, National Academy of economic factors of Investors in Selected
development, start-up facilitation, incubation projects and digital innovation at EDII. Her Sciences India and CSR such as GAIL, HUF and Cities of Gujarat.' At EDII, she is involved in
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 Hans Foundation. His international experience teaching postgraduate students,
entrepreneurship. Expert in rebuilding the decision-making, and digital transformation, spans countries like the Philippines, Malaysia, coordinating key National level programs
economy after natural disasters like Tsunami driving impactful change in India's China, Russia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, & mentoring the research work of PGDM-E
and Earthquake. Authored 12 publications entrepreneurial ecosystem. Bangladesh and Nepal. students.
and several articles and reports.

Abdul Razak Sheetal Thomas Bishnu Prasad Panda Gopal Kumar Roy
Post Doc (Entrepreneurship) Ph.D. (Financial Behaviour) MA ( Economics); LLB B.Tech
(Mechanical Engineering)
Ph.D. (Management) MBA (Finance) MBA (Financial Management )
MBA (Finance) sheetal@ediindia.org bishnu@ediindia.org gopal@ediindia.org
abdulrazak@ediindia.org
Dr. Sheetal Thomas has over 20 years of He possesses over 37 years of experience in An engineer, management consultant, startup
Dr. Abdul Razak has over 15 years for experience in academia and research. She is Micro-Finance, Micro-Enterprise Promotion, evangelist and a trainer, Mr. Roy holds more
experience in the Industry and Academia. currently pursuing a Post Doctoral Fellowship Livelihood and Cluster Development than 10 years of work experience in the MSME,
While he has worked as a Management at the University of Evora, Portugal, focusing on Programmes. Has worked extensively with startup and consultancy domains. He has
provided consulting services in MSME
Consultant, he has also served as a faculty financial decision-making. A Ph.D. from BITS, national and international agencies like the
member in various notable universities and Pilani, she has published her research work in Centre for Youth & Social Development assignments across industrial and traditional
clusters and has conducted training and
organizations. Some of the reputable Scopus-indexed journals. Dr. Thomas has (CYSD), Rashtriya Gramin Vikas Nidhi
organizations that he has been associated authored a reference book and written several (RGVN), CARE and Access Development capacity building programmes for various
stakeholders. His areas of interest and
with, include; Amazon, Deloitte, Genpact, First case studies. She has a patent published on a Services on enhancing the capacities of
American Corporation, Starlight Capital Inc., method for identifying financial behavior national-level NGOs, CBOs and BMOs. Also experience include industrial infrastructure
development, cluster development, business-
and Citations Publishers. Widely travelled, Dr. through handwriting analysis. Her teaching worked as a Consultant for a World Bank
Razak has published over 20 research articles expertise spans financial accounting and study on pani panchayat, SHG and PRI. His plan / DPR preparation, execution and project
management, monitoring & evaluation, design
in National and International Scopus Journals, costing for entrepreneurship, behavioural areas of specialisations are financial
authored 3 Books and has presented research finance, and cognitive finance. She has management, cluster development, livelihood thinking process, development of business
models and BDS & market development.
papers at more than 25 National and participated in numerous international promotion and enterprise promotion.
International Conferences and Seminars. conferences and workshops.

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