Prof. Ravinder Kumar Zutshi

Honorary International Eminent Fellow, India’s Place in the World theme and Growth with Employment theme

Prof. Ravinder Kumar Zutshi has held professorial appointments at San Diego State University, IIM Lucknow, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and Long Island University, New York. Moreover, he has been visiting professor at IIT Delhi and a number of European Universities including, Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia and Eindhoven Technological University, Holland. As an academician he teaches and publishes extensively on Strategy, International Business, Business and Society and Entrepreneurship. Prof. Zutshi was Managing Editor of Journal of enterprising Culture and has been on the Editorial Board of Journal of Small Business Management and International Journal of Technological Management.

Along with his long career as academician, he has also contributed significantly in formation of public policies in India on number of issues including Public Enterprises, Industrial Training, Rural Labour, Industrialization in Eastern Uttar Pradesh, Youth Employment, International Knowledge Network and MSME Clusters by his direct engagements with erstwhile Planning Commission of India, Government of Uttar Pradesh, Government of Madhya Pradesh and National Industrial Development Cooperation, National Productivity Council. Moreover, he has advised a number of global financial institutions such as the World Bank, IDBI, Exim Bank, Singapore Technologies on subjects such as impact of global crisis on youth employment in India.