Current Trustees of ADR
Prof. S. Trilochan Sastry has a Bachelors in Technology from IIT, Delhi, an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad, and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) USA. Date of birth 1960. Taught at IIM, Ahmedabad from 1991 to 2003. He is professor, IIM, Bangalore since March 2003, and is currently the Dean of IIM, Bangalore. Has taught in other Universities in India, Japan, Hong Kong and United States and has published several academic papers in Indian and International journals. Has received national award for research and teaching.
Prof. Jagdeep S. Chhokar has a Ph.D. in Business Administration from, Louisiana State University, USA, MBA from Delhi University, and is a graduate of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (London) and the Institution of Production of Engineers (London). He also has an LL.B. from Gujarat University. He was a Professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, from 1985 to 2006. He had earlier worked with the Indian Railways as a mechanical engineer and manager for over a decade, and as international marketing manager with a public sector for four years. He has also taught at Universities in Australia, France, Japan, and the US. He is now a concerned citizen, a lawyer, and a birdwatcher.
Prof. Sunil Handa has a Bachelors in Engineering from BITS, Pilani and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He is a leading industrialist who has founded Core Healthcare and Core Emballage, Ahmedabad. Has set up the Eklavya Education Foundation with the mandate of significantly contributing to school education in India. Has taught several times as a visiting faculty at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
Dr. Ajit Ranade has a Bachelors in Technology from IIT, Mumbai, an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and a Ph.D in Economics from Brown University, USA. Date of birth 1961. Has has been on the faculty of the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai, Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) New Delhi, and has also taught at other Universities in the USA. Has also published several academic papers and has participated in several national and international seminars. Presently he is the Chief Economist with the Aditya Birla Group.
Dr. Kiran B. Chhokar is a Cultural Geographer with a Ph.D. from Louisiana State University (USA) and a BA and MA from Aligarh Muslim University. She heads the Higher Education Programme at the Centre for Environment Education (CEE) and has been visiting faculty at Portland State University, USA. Dr Chhokar is co-editor of Asian Women and Their Work: A Geography of Gender and Development (1998) and of Understanding Environment (2004), and is the series editor of the EnviroScope series of thematic manuals for college teachers, developed in collaboration with the World Resources Institute, USA. She is currently working in collaboration with the University of Central Lancashire, UK, on developing a blended learning programme on Ecotourism, Conservation and Development. She is also founder member of Mahila Swaraj Abhiyan, a network of organizations in Gujarat working to promote value-based governance in society particularly through elected and other women leaders.
Prof. Brij Kothari has a Ph.D. (1996) in Adult Education from Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA, Masters in Communications from Cornell University, and M.Sc. Physics from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India. Presently he is an Adjunct Professor of IIM, Ahmedabad, in the Ravi J. Matthai Centre for Educational Innovation. Academic interests include literacy, primary education, and use of information technology in international development. His work on Same Language Subtitling on TV for mass literacy has received several recognitions, including: i) Tech Laureate, Tech Museum of Innovations, San Jose, CA (2003); ii) Winner, Development Marketplace (World Bank’s global competition; 2002); iii) Best Social Innovation in Education, Institute for Social Inventions, London (2000); and iv) Reuters Digital Vision Fellowship at Stanford University (2003-2004). Geographically, he has field experience in India, Bhutan, Ecuador, and the United States.
Prof. Sudarshan Khanna has a Postgraduate in industrial design from the National Institute of Design (NID), Ahmedabad. He teaches courses in design and community related design pertaining to crafts people and artisans in India. Recipient of National Award for science for children. Worked with several non-governmental and development orgaisations. Currently a Board member of the International Toy Research Association at Sweden.
Prof. Devanath Tirupati obtained a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. His primary research and teaching interests are in operations management and operations research that span a range of topics that include capacity planning, technology choice, supply chain management, production planning and inventory control, scheduling, queuing network models of manufacturing, off-line and on-line quality control. He was named IBM Pre-doctoral Fellow (1985), (US) Presidential Young Investigator (1989) and received Award for Research Excellence from the University of Texas at Austin (1990). He is Editor of Asian Journal of Operations Management. He served as an Associate Editor of Operations Research and Management Science and as Area Editor of Production and Operations Management. He has several years of full time work experience in the Indian industry. He has consulted with several firms both in India and USA that include IBM, Texas Instruments Inc., Palladian Software, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. Currently Professor at Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, he has also taught at the University of Texas at Austin, and Melbourne Business School.
Ms. Kamini Jaiswal is a senior Advocate of the Supreme Court of India. She is also the Secretary of the Center for Public Interest Litigation.
