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.
Prof. Surinder S. Jodhka
Surinder S. Jodhka is a Professor of Sociology at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He researches on social inequalities, caste in contemporary times, rural/agrarian change, and sociology of community identities. His recent publications include India’s Villages in the 21 st Century: Revisits and Revisions (with Edward Simpson OUP:2019); Mapping
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the Elite: Power, Privilege and Inequality (with Jules Naudet. OUP:2019); A Handbook of Rural India (OBS 2018.); Contested Hierarchies: Caste and Power in 21 st Century (with James Manor OBS:2018); The Indian Middle-Class (with Aseem Prakash OUP:2016); Caste in Contemporary India (Routledge:2015); Caste (OISI/OUP 2012). He is also a recipient of the ICSSR-Amartya Sen Award for Distinguished Social Scientists, 2012.
Prof. VP Ojha
Prof. VP Ojha teaches Economic Environment and Policy at Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad. He’s been a Visiting Fellow at the University of York and the Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies, and has also served as an Associate Professor at Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC). Prof. Ojha has
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taught at the WTO Centre in the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade in New Delhi, and was a Reader at the Development Planning Centre of the Institute of Economic Growth in Delhi. He has various consulting engagements to his name, from The World Bank to the National Council of Applied Economic Research. He has been a Guest Faculty Member at the Centre for International Trade and Development at Jawaharlal Nehru University since 2008.
Pronab Sen
Principles of Economics Applications of Economics
Dr. Pronab Sen is currently the Country Director for the International Growth Centre’s India Programme, on the faculty of Vedica Scholars for Women and Indian School of Public Policy, and is Editor, Indian Journal of National Income & Wealth. He is also a member of the High-level Expert Group on
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Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress (OECD) and the Technical Advisory Group of the International Comparison Project (World Bank). Most recently, he was Chairman of the National Statistical Commission. Prior to superannuation from the Government in 2012, he was the first Principal Economic Adviser at the Government of India\\\’s Planning Commission. He has also held positions as the first Chief Statistician of India, acting as the functional and technical Head of the national statistical system in India, as well as Secretary, Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation, Government of India (2007-2010). Born 1952 in New Delhi, India, Dr. Sen received his B.A. (Hons) in Economics from St. Stephen’s College, University of Delhi (1972); M.B.A. (1974) and M.A. in Economics (1975) from the George Washington University, Washington D.C.; and Ph.D. in Economics (1982) from the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. He specialized in Open-economy Macroeconomic Systems, International Economics and Public Finance. Dr. Sen worked as management consultant in Washington D.C. (1974-1977). He taught at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore and Delhi School of Economics, Delhi between 1977 and 1983. He turned to pure research in economics at the Indian Council for Research in International Economic Relations, New Delhi (1983-1987) and the Economic Research Unit, New Delhi (1987-1990). Worked at the World Institute for Development Economics Research, Helsinki in 1986 and again in 1989. He joined the Government of India as Economic Adviser, Department of Electronics (1990-1994), where he was one of the architects of the National Software Policy 1990 and the Software Technology Park Policy 1991. Moved to the Planning Commission, Government of India in 1994. As Principal Adviser, Perspective Planning Division of the Planning Commission, he was the author of the Approach Paper to four Five Year Plans and the principal author and coordinator of three Five Year Plans and Mid-term Appraisals. He has chaired a number of government Committees, most notably on Economic Statistics, Ecological Fragility, Control of Prices of Essential Drugs, and Slums
Pushkal Kumar Pandey
Management 101
Pushkal Kumar Pandey is an independent higher education professional who has previously worked in the construction industry. He is a visiting faculty in the areas of finance and quantitative methods at FOSTIIMA, IMD, NBA, and Skyline Business School. He was previously associated as visiting faculty with Princeton Review, TIME, JIMS,
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IILM and Wigan and Leigh.
Pushpa Nair
Pushpa Nair is a marketing and communication professional with over 25 years of experience in PR consulting, corporate communications, and marketing. Her specialties include Integrated marketing strategy, public relations and communication strategy and implementation, brand building, media sensitization and message development for spokespersons. She is currently an adjunct faculty at
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Apeejay Institute of Mass Communication and a guesst faculty at Vedica Scholars Programme for Women.
Radhika Singh
Radhika Singh is an organisational leadership performance and executive coach. She consults on leadership coaching and succession planning. She is a Certified Coach in Neuro-Linguistic Programming.
Raghav Subramanian
Raghav Subramanian has Over 25 years of rich blend of Business and Consumer. A unique resume that covers most elements of marketing and leadership (consumer research, media, data analytics, brand management, top management, business portfolio), spanning across India and global experience. He believes that technology will continue to be in
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the forefront of value creation for business across industries and he collaborates with future ready tech companies and have been providing product and process efficiency solutions across industries, with a focus in auto and packaged goods.
Rahul Pandey
Operations and Supply Chain Management
Rahul is an entrepreneur and academic with interests in operations, supply chain, analytics, strategy, innovation, sustainability, energy and climate policy, technology, mathematics, science, and education. He is a founder of IGSA Labs, a supply chain analytics company, and a founder of CLE Trust, a nonprofit in education. He is a
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visiting professor with IIM Lucknow and IIM Udaipur, besides Vedica. Formerly, he was a faculty member with IIT Bombay and IIM Lucknow. He writes regularly at medium.com/@rahulpandey.igsa
Rajiv Kapuria
Rajiv Kapuria is an accomplished business and HR leader with extensive experience in leading businesses and transformational change at the enterprise level. He has held key leadership roles in HR, talent management, operations and integrations for ten years at Halliburton before bringing his expertise to the Board of Directions at
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HLS Asia Limited, a Haliburton Joint Venture, as well as an advisory, strategy and operations consulting role with Deloitte Consulting. Other hats he has worn include : Managing Director at Arkay Business Solutions, Mentor for Rice Alumni. Rajiv is recognised for spearheading strategy formulation and sponsoring and driving change through digital technologies and shaping organisational culture and effectiveness. He holds a Bachelor of Technology from IIT Kanpur and an MBA from The Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University.
Reena Mithal
Dr Reena Mithal has spent over two decades working in global financial markets and investment research. Formerly, she was part of US-based emerging markets research teams at Putnam Investments, Deutsche Bank and Lehman Brothers.
Rohit Kapoor
Rohit Kapoor is currently the CEO of Food Marketplace at Swiggy. He was previously the CEO of New Real Estate Business at OYO Rooms. He has 18 years of diverse experience across management consulting and industry. He worked with Mckinsey & Company for nearly a decade, leading several engagements in
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Banking & Insurance in India, South East Asia, and Canada. He was also the co-leader of Mckinsey India\’s recruitment team and led learning & development. Rohit also had stints with Usha Martin, a leading NBFC, and Eli Lilly Ranbaxy. He holds an MBA from the Indian School of Business and is a certified Chartered Financial analyst (CFA Institute, USA). Rohit joined Max India in June 2012 and has made a notable contribution toward strengthening & executing the business strategy and performance management functions. He also led Project Uday and is a Governing Council member in Ma Bupa. He is Board Member at Antara Senior Living, MSF & Max One.
Roz Savage
The Art of Courageous living
After getting a law degree from Oxford, Roz Savage spent the first 11 years of her career working as a management consultant, before an environmental epiphany led to her radical career change into a world-class adventurer. Since 2005 Roz has rowed – solo – across the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian
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Oceans, earning her no less than four Guinness World Records. She has rowed over 15,000 miles, taken approximately 5 million oar strokes, and spent over 500 days alone at sea in a 23-foot rowboat. In her most recent incarnation, she is the founder of ’The Sisters’, a global women’s network dedicated to designing and creating a better future.
Ruchira Chaudhury
Ruchika Chaudary straddle the corporate and academic worlds as an executive coach, adjunct faculty at several top tier business schools and run a boutique consulting firm focused on organizational strategy solution. Worked with multinationals, government agencies and with leading local business organizations across industry sectors. Adjunct Faculty at SMU, NUS
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and IMD Singapore and ISPP, India and the author of the acclaimed management book Coaching the Secret Code to Uncommon Leadership, (Penguin Random House) endorsed by academics, and luminaries like Sheryl Sandberg & Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Sandeep Sen
Sandeep Sen is an Education Consultant, Editor, and Writer. He has over 10 years of experience in Media and Education. Sandeep has conducted over 150 sessions, worked with an audience of over 10,000 students and professionals on their Professional Communication. With a dedicated focus on improving communications, his career goal
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is to enable his students to communicate effectively. In this endeavour, he has served as the Managing Editor of Higher Education Review for over 3 years. In 2017, he was selected for the Young India Fellowship and continued to pursue his love for writing. He then joined the Vedica Scholars Programme for Women in 2019 and served as the Head of the Writing and Communications Centre till 2021. Currently, he is an Educator who specializes in Professional Communication and a consultant who works with various organizations driving strategic initiatives and programme management.
Santhosh Babu
Santhosh Babu is the Managing Director of Organisation Development Alternatives and works with organisations and leaders to shift limiting beliefs and bring about lasting positive change. He has been identified as a CEO Coach by Business World, Economic Times and Business Standard.
Shefaly Yogendra
Decision Making
Versatile Non-Executive Board Director with experience in listed, private and non-profit companies; Committee Chairing experience: Audit & Risk, Nomination, Remuneration, Governance, ESG; Sector experience: investment, technology, energy, higher education, and charity; Specialist knowledge: deep tech (AI, automation, data, cyber, infrastructure), risk, talent
Shiv Dewan
Entrepreneurship
Founder One Step Up Education, Ex NDTV CEO’s Office Alumni of IIM Indore, Shri Ram College of Commerce & Lawrence School, Lovedale Visiting Faculty at IIM Indore – ’18, ’19 & ’20 & Vedica Scholars (2019, 2020)
Shiv has spent the last ten years
Trying to see which jobs are coming and
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going
Looking for interconnections between subjects, professions, capitalism & social justice!
In the classrooms of India\’s best schools
Building a team of passionate individuals
Trying to figure out whether education should be scaled or not
Trying to win a Squash tournament in the paunch category (Over 35!)
Travelling, (by road ideally!) across India to find and tell stories on careers to inspire 60,000 students (and counting)
Siddarth Menon
Siddarth Menon is a sales, marketing and strategy professional with a record proving successful business growth, leadership and innovation. Until recently, he was the Branch Manager for Colgate Palmolive (North Division) where he led a team of over 90 people.He is currently volunteering with a non-profit organization for homeless children, Jamghat.
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He believes strongly in the power of strategy, innovation and analytics to drive business growth and has recently crafted a marketing strategy for an education platform. Master of Business Administration, Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management
Stacy Blake Beard
Stacy Blake-Beard is a renowned scholar, consultant, speaker, mentor and coach. In addition to her organizational leadership consulting practice, she has held a number of leadership roles, serving as the 2016-2019 Deloitte Ellen Gabriel Chair of Women and Leadership at the Simmons College School of Business, where she teaches organizational
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leadership. She is Faculty Affiliate at the Center for Gender in Organizations at Simmons and Visiting Faculty at the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, India. Prior to joining Simmons, Stacy was on the faculty at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education for six years. tacy holds an MA and a PhD in Organizational Psychology from the University of Michigan and a BS in Psychology from the University of Maryland at College Park. Stacy’s academic research focuses on the challenges and opportunities offered by mentoring relationships, with a focus on how these relationships may be changing as a result of increasing workforce diversity. She is particularly interested in the issues women face as they develop mentoring relationships.
Storywhallas (Vansh Chopra)
Experienced Consultant with a demonstrated history of working in the professional talent management industry. Strong consulting professional skilled in Sales, Learning&Development, Operations, Market Research, Management Information Systems (MIS), and Training.
Sundar Sarukkai
Introduction to Philosophy
Sundar Sarukkai is the founder of the Barefoot Philosophers, an initiative to bring philosophy to the public (www.barefootphilosophers.org). He is the author of the following books: Translating the World: Science and Language, Philosophy of Symmetry, Indian Philosophy and Philosophy of Science, What is Science? and two books co-authored with Gopal
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Guru – The Cracked Mirror: An Indian Debate on Experience and Theory and most recently Experience, Caste and the Everyday Social. His book titled JRD Tata and the Ethics of Philanthropy was published in July 2020. He is the Co-Chief Editor of the Springer Handbook of Logical Thought in India, the Series Editor for the Science and Technology Studies Series, Routledge and editorial advisory member of Leonardo as well as Marg. Sarukkai was a professor of philosophy at the National Institute of Advanced Studies till 2019 and was the Founder-Director of the Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities where he set up an innovative interdisciplinary postgraduate program. He has been actively taking philosophy to different communities and places, conducting philosophy workshops for children and bringing philosophy to the public through his writing in the media. His forthcoming book Philosophy for Children will be published in English and other languages.
TD Chandrasekhar
Management 101 case study
For three decades now, T. D. Chandrasekhar (called TD by friends) has been involved with businesses, first as a practicing executive and later as an external expert. In his current role as a coach, facilitator and a consultant for over a decade, he has coached over 200 senior executives, facilitated
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over a 1000 corporate programs, covering more than 15000 executives. As an invited speaker, he has addressed over 100 occasions including initiatives like TEDx. His focus has primarily been on excellence, creativity and innovation both at individual and organization levels with leading business organizations in India and overseas. His last corporate role was as Country head, India of Ameriprise Financial, which he setup and led till he started on his next phase. In his executive roles, he was known to focus both on professional excellence and personal wellbeing of staff as he believed strongly on the concept of sustainable business success hinging on motivated minds. He also loves interacting with students and teaching. At home, playing with his twin daughters bring him unbounded joy. The book he co-wrote with his close friend Br.Prasanna Swaroopa – Good Values Great Business- has given him an immense joy. The book has been dedicated to the millions of youngsters who join the workforce every year. He has been involved with Vedica from the very first batch. He takes courses such as – Mind of a Leader, Case Study Methodology, Consulting skills. He strongly believes in Vedica’s cause.
Tripti Desai
Managing Orgs
Dr Tripti P Desai started her academic journey from IIM-Ahmedabad, where she retrained in Managerial Teaching after working in Industry for 5 years.Post her experience at IIM-A, where she was, for 5 years, she has been teaching, researching, training, and consulting for more than 33 years. She was an assessor
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with leading consulting companies including Ernst & Young and Deloitte. Dr Desai has presented papers and chaired symposiums in International and National conferences. She regularly reviews papers for the conference of the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology {SIOP)-USA. She has been and is an Independent Director with 4 Vodafone Idea non-Telco companies. She is also a member of the Managing Committee of a Education Society which runs 5 leading Public schools in Delhi and NCR. Dr Desai is also a member of the Governing council of a Manpower Management Centre, a Non profit Organization.
Urvashi Butalia
Women , Society and Changing India
Urvashi Butalia is a publisher and writer. Co-founder of Kali for Women, India’s first feminist publisher, and now director of Zubaan, she is also author of the award-winning oral history of Partition, The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India.
Valerie Belanger
Valerie Belanger is an internationalist with 10+ years of experience in building networks and rethinking leadership. She has problem-solved with municipal leaders in Central America, coached education entrepreneurs in the Middle East, and convened journalists, artists, environmentalists, diplomats, and venture capitalists from across 80+ countries. Most recently, she has been
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inspiring new thinking around leadership development within the business school context. Her previous experience includes work with Yale World Fellows, Ashoka and the Synergos Institute. For two years, Valerie served as a municipal development volunteer with the Peace Corps in El Salvador.
Vivek Law
Vivek Law is the Founder of Investonomix, a digital content website on managing finance. He has also been a senior Business journalist with Bloomberg UTV and has diverse range of experience in Broadcast Media. He is also the author of The Money Book, which simplifies the process of investing and
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saving.