Faculty Directory
Vedica’s faculty includes experienced academics, industry leaders and practitioners who bring together strong pedagogy and real world perspective. Their teaching helps Scholars think critically, communicate clearly and apply concepts with confidence.
Amit Gulati
Co-founder Incubis Consultants (India) Pvt Ltd
Amit Krishn Gulati is an award winning industrial designer, entrepreneur and design educator with a multifaceted oeuvre encompassing new product development, healthcare, branding, built environments and retail experiences. Amit graduated from the National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad in 1995 and is the founder of Incubis, one of India’s well-known
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Amit Kumar
Intra and Inter-personal Dynamics
A Communication and EI Coach, Amit Kumar has more than 25 years of diverse experience as facilitator, L&OD consultant, instructional design specialist, and journalist in organizations across India, USA, Nepal and Mauritius. Notably, he has worked with The World Bank as a Senior Knowledge Management Officer. He has an MA
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Anjan Banerjee
42 Years in IT / ITeS / Consulting / Training holding leadership positions Globally in eminent organizations such as CMC, Digital, IBM, NCR, PwC, Polaris & Capgemini. Have been Visiting Faculty at TMTC, IIMB, IIM-Shillong, NRTI beside Vedica. Have developed and delivered Training Programs at Capgemini University in Paris in
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Ankur Kulshrestha
Corporate Finance Accounting
Ankur Kulshrestha has worked with Suzuki India (Strategy) and EY (Consulting) for 10 years before joining academia. He is an Accounting and Finance enthusiast. He co-founded a start-up in 2014 in the ed-tech space and spends considerable time in the start-up ecosystem, both on the buy-side with investors and the
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Anunaya Chaubey
Anunaya Chaubey is a well-known artist and former Principal of the College of Arts & Crafts, Patna University. Dr Chaubey also taught English Literature at Patna University. For his Doctoral thesis Dr Chaubey worked on Ezra Pound’s critical theories and practice. -The natural object is always the adequate symbol,’ is
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Anunaya Rajhans
Anunaya Rajhans is currently a PhD candidate at the Media Studies department, University of Amsterdam, where he studies internet memes; esp. meme culture in India and its impact on public and democratic discourse. His research involves browsing memes across platforms and borrows from practices across media & culture studies, anthropology,
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Apurv Mishra
Law and Citizenships
Apurv Kumar Mishra is a visiting faculty at Vedica. He works as the Editor-in-Chief of India Law Journal and Senior Research Fellow at India Foundation. He is also a visiting Faculty of Law at Ashoka University and Consultant at University of Chicago India Centre. Apurv is a member of the
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Avik Chatterjee
He had done theater for 8 years and brings all the theatrics and life experience in his classes. He had been invited to speak at TEDx twice and also been featured in the ‘200 most influential thought leaders to follow in 2021’ list. He loves to reinvent himself and finds
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Bhawani Singh Shekhawat
Mr Shekhawat is the UK-Europe CEO of Akshaya Patra Foundation and is based in London. He is a speaker, strategic partner and independent advisor on company boards including Erehwon Innovation Consulting, Sevendots. He has had a career of over 25 years where he worked with Nielsen, Reckitt Benckiser and Coca-Cola.
Centre for Civil Society (Sourya and others)
With over 5 years of experience in policy research, analysis, and training, Sourya is a passionate and skilled Public Policy program coordinator at Centre for Civil Society, a leading think tank and advocacy organization in India. His work @CCS involves promoting the principles of liberty, choice, and accountability in public
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Chavi Behl
Chavi Behl is a pioneer in the field of education, having dedicated her life to helping students reach their full potential. With over 20 years of experience as a senior school teacher, Vice principal and paper checker with both ISC and CBSE board exams, Chavi has honed her skills as
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Dana Brown
Professor Dana Brown is Dean, Sprott School of Business, Carleton University and the Founding Principal and Former Pro Vice-Chancellor, Enterprise of Leicester Castle Business School (LCBS) at De Montfort University. Under her leadership, Vedica has partnered with LCBS through which the Scholars get an opportunity to join the Global MBA
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Dr. Anirudh Chakrabarty
Management Faculty
Statistics, Operations and
Supply Chain Management
Dr. Anirudh Chakrabarty is a management educator with experience across leading FMCG and lifestyle brands. A PGDM graduate from IIM Bangalore and UGC–NET qualified in Management, he has taught at NIFT, FIIB, Sunstone and SOIL, and trained professionals at Indian Oil Corporation. At Vedica, he brings a blend of academic
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Dr. Yugank Goyal
Liberal Arts 101, Law and Ethics
Yugank Goyal is associate professor in public policy at FLAME University where he is the director of Centre for Knowledge Alternatives that works on district level data and cultures. He pursued his masters and doctoral studies in law and economics as Erasmus Mundus Scholar from Europe. He was a founding
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Eric Zackrison
After a 30-year career as a restaurant manager and owner, Eric attained an MBA from Missouri State University and a PhD in Organizational Communication from UCSB. His research interest focused on team dynamics, leadership, and workplace relationships. He currently lectures in the Technology Management Department at UCSB, working with both
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Francis Rebello
Negotiations Mastery
Francis Rebello is a Human Asset Consultant and a Certified Executive Coach (PCC-ICF) who enables engaged aspiring professionals achieve their Impossible Future. He engages with aspiring and engaged professionals in coaching conversations, academic explorations and learning add-ventures to enable them to maximize their potential by discovering and delivering the future
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Gaurav Saini
Gaurav Saini is a theatre trainer, actor, director, and short-film maker. He conducts a range of workshops in theatre and theatre therapy for individuals as well as institutions. He started his journey in theatre with Barry John, first as a student of acting and then as an assistant teacher.
James Lockhart
James has been on leadership and organisational development in multi-national organisations for over 30 years, in 2007 he established Lockhart Executive Development LTD to support organisations globally through coaching leaders on strategy development and strategic execution, team development and transformational change. In 2016, in the aftermath of Brexit, he established
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Jishnu Changkakoti
Pricing
Post his education in IIM Calcutta and NIT Kozhikode, Jishnu Changkakoti spent 22+ years working across the world in various roles in marketing, sales and general management. The roles he handled include heading marketing for Johnson & Johnson in Indonesia, setting up the Indian operation of a US Foods MNC,
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Kanika Pandey Tiwari
Understanding the Self
Kanika Pandey Tiwari has experience in human resources with Baxter (a US Based Healthcare Organisation). She is also a certified Trainer (ASTD), Mentor (Cherie Blair Foundation), Assessor and Leadership Coach. She is currently engaged in teaching at premier business schools, research, mentoring and training/consulting in different areas.
Meena Vaidyanathan
Sustainability
Meena is a social entrepreneur (founder of niiti consulting and Questera Foundation) and a management consultant specializing in marketing and change management strategies for corporate and social sector alike. A double Masters’ with degrees in Biotechnology and Management as well as a certificate in Social Entrepreneurship. Her rich 28+ years
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Meenakshi Gopinath
Meenakshi Gopinath is a Fulbright Scholar, a Padma Shri Awardee and an educationist. She retired as the Principal of Lady Shri Ram College in 2014, which is rated amongst the best institutions of higher learning in India. She is also the Founder and Honorary Director of WISCOMP (Women in Security
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Neha Singh
Personal Finance
Neha Singh has over 14 years of corporate experience in financial services and strategy consulting with companies like Standard Chartered Bank, Kotak Mahindra Bank, Deloitte India and MakeMyTrip.
Being passionate about gender equality, Neha believes financial freedom is an important lever for empowering women.
Combining her passion, with her knowledge and experience
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Nish Bhutani
Digital Marketing
Nish Bhutani has 27 years of experience with digital and technology companies in Silicon Valley, UK and India. He is Founder & CEO – Indiginus – a digital growth consulting business specialising in digital strategies, experimentation and capability building. Clients include Bharat Matrimony, Saffronart, and Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Prior
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Nita Kapoor
Presently, founder Rcube Ventures a platform for sustainable products and livelihoods, Angel Investor with India’s leading Angel Network IAN, Communication Advisor – Integrated Mountains Initiative, Centre For Excellence IIT Delhi. Guest Faculty for business schools on the topics of Corporate Communication, Public Relations .Non – Executive Member at Muskaan, NGO
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Pramath Raj Sinha
Pramath Raj Sinha is Managing Director, 9.9 Media and a Former Partner of McKinsey & Company and Founder of the Vedica Scholars Programme for Women. Dr. Sinha is also Founding Dean, Indian School of Business and the Young India Fellowship; and Founder Trustee, Ashoka University.
Preeti Singh
Preeti Singh has over two decades of combined experience – at a premier national defence & security think tank (IDSA), leading news media house (HT) and B2B media companies (9.9 & BW) and a global public policy and commercial diplomacy major (ASG)- integrating policy research, government relations and liaison, editorial
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Priyadarshini Laxminarayan
Priyadarshini Lakshminarayan is an Independent Director at the Member Board of Directors, and serves as the Chief Strategy and Sales Officer at Samarth Life Management Pvt Ltd. She has worked at Hughes Global Education in the capacity of Director, Sales and Marketing, and used to be the Vice President of
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Priyash Nigam
Priyash Nigam has 7 years + experience in leading businesses and teams across the globe to achieve marketing excellence especially in the ever growing digital world. His expertises are Internet Marketing, Inbound Marketing, Social media management and Marketing Project Management.
Prof. Jigar M. Shah
An entrepreneur, consultant & academic, Jigar Shah has experience working on then the world’s largest core banking project with Tata Consultancy Services before starting his own venture, Cresco® Mobility Solutions, in software, web & mobile app consulting, design & development. As an academic, he is associated as a Visiting Faculty
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