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EDII FACULTY EDII FACULTY

Sivan Ambattu Ananthavalli Ramesh Bishnu Prasad Panda Gopal Kumar Roy
Master in Social Work Ph.D. (Technology Management) MA ( Economics); LLB B.Tech
sivan@ediindia.org B.E. ( Production Engineering) MBA (Financial Management ) (Mechanical Engineering)
ananthavalli@ediindia.org bishnu@ediindia.org gopal@ediindia.org

A versatile professional in the field of Dr. Ananthavalli Ramesh is dedicated to He possesses over 37 years of experience in An engineer, management consultant, startup
entrepreneurship and project management. fostering entrepreneurship education for Micro-Finance, Micro-Enterprise Promotion, evangelist and a trainer, Mr. Roy holds more
Developed strong linkages with state higher education students. She leads Livelihood and Cluster Development than 10 years of work experience in the MSME,
government, national, and international InnovateEDU, focusing on entrepreneurship Programmes. Has worked extensively with startup and consultancy domains. He has
developmental agencies besides bilateral skill development in Tamil Nadu. With a Ph.D. national and international agencies like the provided consulting services in MSME
and multilateral organizations. Areas of and M.S. by Research from IIT Madras, she has Centre for Youth & Social Development assignments across industrial and traditional
specialization includes strategy formulation, 16 years of experience in project management (CYSD), Rashtriya Gramin Vikas Nidhi clusters and has conducted training and
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 (RGVN), CARE and Access Development capacity building programmes for various
development, establishing rural business Royal Enfield. She researches rural women Services on enhancing the capacities of stakeholders. His areas of interest and
institutions, value-chain development, cluster entrepreneurship and contributes to DST national-level NGOs, CBOs and BMOs. Also experience include industrial infrastructure
development, start-up facilitation, incubation projects and digital innovation at EDII. Her worked as a Consultant for a World Bank development, cluster development, business-
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 study on pani panchayat, SHG and PRI. His plan / DPR preparation, execution and project
entrepreneurship. Expert in rebuilding the decision-making, and digital transformation, areas of specialisations are financial management, monitoring & evaluation, design
economy after natural disasters like Tsunami driving impactful change in India's management, cluster development, livelihood thinking process, development of business
and Earthquake. Authored 12 publications entrepreneurial ecosystem. promotion and enterprise promotion. models and BDS & market development.
and several articles and reports.

T. A. Nikita Zahoor Ahmad Paray
Abdul Razak Deepak Kumar Yogi Ph.D. ( Finance ) FPM; M.Phil. (Development
Post Doc (Entrepreneurship) Ph.D. (Social Policy) C.A.; M.Phil. (Commerce) Economics)
Ph.D. (Management) M.Phil (Social work) afsa-a@ediindia.org
MBA (Finance) deepakyogi@ediindia.org zahoor@ediindia.org
abdulrazak@ediindia.org
Development practitioner and researcher with A teacher in the areas of Accounting, An academician and researcher with 9 years
Dr. Abdul Razak has over 15 years for 15 years of experience across government, Costing, Management Accounting, of experience, Mr. Paray's areas of
experience in the Industry and Academia. academia and the NGO sectors. He possesses Taxation and Finance. She possesses over specialization include development
While he has worked as a Management expertise in community-based institution 21 years of experience in academia and economics, entrepreneurship development,
Consultant, he has also served as a faculty building, livelihood promotion, financial industry. Currently pursuing a Ph.D. on the entrepreneurship finance, venture growth,
member in various notable universities and inclusion, project management and field topic 'To Study the Acceptance Level of and entrepreneurial marketing. He has
organizations. Some of the reputable research. He has led projects funded by Technology in Personal Finance with participated in many international and
organizations that he has been associated national agencies like the Dept. of Rural Reference to different Demographics and - national conferences and presented his
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 economic factors of Investors in Selected research. He is widely published, including 8
American Corporation, Starlight Capital Inc., Environment and Forest, National Academy of Cities of Gujarat.' At EDII, she is involved in research articles in Scopus and ABDC
and Citations Publishers. Widely travelled, Dr. Sciences India and CSR such as GAIL, HUF and teaching postgraduate students, indexed journals.
Razak has published over 20 research articles Hans Foundation. His international experience coordinating key National level programs
in National and International Scopus Journals, spans countries like the Philippines, Malaysia, & mentoring the research work of PGDM-E
authored 3 Books and has presented research China, Russia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, students.
papers at more than 25 National and Bangladesh and Nepal.
International Conferences and Seminars.

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