The Institute
Leadership
Meet our President
Shri Rakesh Sharma
Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer
IDBI Bank Ltd.
President, Shri Rakesh Sharma has been extending unparalleled guidance to the Institute. Shri Sharma has vast experience in banking spanning over three decades. Before joining IDBI Bank, Shri Sharma served as MD & CEO of Canara Bank and Lakshmi Vilas Bank. Shri Sharma began his career in State Bank of India and worked in various areas such as retail and wholesale banking, corporate credit, international banking, asset liability management, loan syndication, industrial and human resources over his tenure.
Message from President
“Entrepreneurship awareness must permeate into folds of every section of society; and one way of achieving this is by disseminating its advantages through the medium of training and education. EDII understands this well its success stories are the testimonies of this phenomenon.”
Meet our Director General
Dr. Sunil Shukla
EDII is headed by Dr. Sunil Shukla who has been closely associated, for more than three decades now, with entrepreneurship education, research, training and institution building. Dr. Shukla has envisioned and designed innovative, outcome based programmes and developmental interventions in ‘entrepreneurship’ and ‘intrapreneurship’, that have ensured sustainable results in terms of increased efficiency and performance, for varied target groups including students, faculty, business executives, bankers, managers, disadvantaged sections, family business successors, administrators and business counsellors.
Message from Director General
“Entrepreneurship as a discipline is experiencing a strong upsurge, more so; with Government, industry and institutions working in close cooperation. We also see innovative initiatives and result-oriented measures in place, to create a congenial ecosystem for entrepreneurship. EDII reaches out to diverse sections and sectors of people, across the country, seeing them realise their entrepreneurial dreams. My advice to all wannabe entrepreneurs is that they must equip themselves with knowledge, skills and attitude and let their dreams soar.”
Shri Rakesh Sharma
President-EDII
Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer
IDBI Bank Ltd. Mumbai
Shri Dinesh Singh Rawat
Chief General Manager & Zonal Head
(Ahmedabad Zone)
IDBI Bank Limited
Ahmedabad
Shri Rahul Bhave
Deputy Managing Director
IFCI Limited
New Delhi
Shri Anindya Sundar Paul
Chief General Manager
(SME & Supply Chain Finance)
State Bank of India
Mumbai
Ms. Mamta Verma, IAS
Principal Secretary
Industries & Mines Department
Government of Gujarat
Gandhinagar
Ms. Mercy Epao, IAS
Joint Secretary (SME)
Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Entreprises, Govt. of India
New Delhi
Dr. Sailendra Narain
Former Chairman & Managing Director
SIDBI (Small Industries Development Bank of India)
Mumbai
Shri Shaji Krishnan V
Chairman
National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD)
Mumbai
Dr. Milind Kamble
Founder Chairman
Dalit Indian Chamber Of Commerce & Industry (DICCI)
Pune
Shri Anil Bhardwaj
Secretary General
Federation of Indian Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (FISME)
New Delhi
Shri Ram Mohan Mishra
IAS (Retd.)
Executive Chairman
State Investment Promotion Board
Government of Meghalaya
Shillong
Dr. O.P. Goel
Advisor to Chief Executive Officer
National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC)
New Delhi
Ms. Dipti D. Salgaocar
Vice President – Corporate Communication
V.M. Salgaocar Corporation Pvt. Ltd.
Goa
Shri Rajesh R. Gandhi
Managing Director
Vadilal Industries Limited
Ahmedabad
Dr. Sunil Shukla
Director General
Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India
Ahmedabad
Former Presidents
Dr. Milind Kamble
2018 – 2019 (Officiating President)
Shri M. K. Jain
2017 – 2018
Shri Kishor Kharat
2015 to 2017
Shri M.S. Raghavan
2013 – 2015
Shri R.M. Malla
2010 – 2013
Shri Yogesh Agarwal
2007 – 2010
Shri V.P. Shetty
2005 – 2007
Shri M. Damodaran
2003 – 2004
Shri P.P. Vora
2001 – 2003
Late Shri S.K. Kapur
2001 (Acting President)
Shri S.K. Chakrabarti
2001 (Acting President)
Shri G.P. Gupta
1998 – 2000
Late Shri S.H. Khan
1993 – 1998
Late Shri S.S. Nadkarni
1985 – 1993
Shri M.R.B. Punja
1983 – 1985
Former Directors
Dr. Dinesh N. Awasthi
2003 – 2015
An Economist with vast experience in entrepreneurship education, research and training.
His areas of interest are policy research, cluster development, sub-sector analysis, social entrepreneurship, rural entrepreneurship and NGOs.
Late Dr. V. G. Patel (Padma Shri)
1983 – 2003
An eminent economist and international figure in the sphere of entrepreneurship, small industry policies and growth management, Dr. Patel had held several key positions in his career.
He was honoured with the Padma Shri in 2017 for his contribution to development of entrepreneurship in India.
Dr. Dinesh N. Awasthi
2003 – 2015
An economist, Dr. Awasthi has several research papers and books, besides a number of research studies on SMEs and Entrepreneurship, to his credit. His areas of specialisation are entrepreneurship, strategic management and fundamentals of social development. Areas of his professional interest include evaluation studies, development and growth of micro, small and medium enterprise (SMEs), cluster development, strategies for poverty alleviation and employment creation and non-government organizations.
Prof. Awasthi was a Member of the Working Group on Small Scale Industries for the XI Five-Year Plan, Government of India; Member of the Working Group on Growth Poles, National Commission on Informal/Unorganised Sector Enterprises, Government of India and National Committee on Small Scale Industries set up by Confederation of Indian Industries (CII). He was also Member of the Core Group on Urban Poverty, Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Government of India, Member of the National Advisory Committee on Incubators, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, etc.
Late Dr. V. G. Patel (Padma Shri)
1983 – 2003
An eminent economist and international figure in the sphere of entrepreneurship, small industry policies and growth management, Dr. Patel had held several key positions in his career. He was the Chief Economic Advisor to Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation; Founder Director of Centre for Entrepreneurship Development, Gujarat and Managing Director at Gujarat Industrial & Technical Consultancy Organization Ltd. Dr. Patel’s work towards inclusion of entrepreneurship in the formal education system, sensitization of support system, entrepreneurship research in addition to routing several other developing countries on the trajectory of entrepreneurship has been widely recognised. The Government of India also incorporated the EDP approach as a part of its self employment schemes. The Central Government’s ‘Rojgar Yojana’ incorporated entrepreneurship training, based on work done by Dr. Patel. He was honoured with the Padma Shri in 2017 for his contribution to development of entrepreneurship in India.
Dr. Patel has authored several books and reports on entrepreneurship and small industries related subjects. His book, ‘The Seven Business Crisis & How to Beat Them’ (reissued as When the Going gets Tough) is a best seller.
