Mentors

Dr. Vinod Durge

IIM Jammu Faculty

• Dr. Vinod is an Associate Professor of Practice in Business Policy and Strategy Area in Indian Institute of Management, Jammu. 

• He has 20+ years of work experience. He has worked with reputed companies like o9 Solutions, IBM, ITC, MindTree, ONGC, and Haldia Petrochemicals.

• Besides large Corporations and MNCs, he also consulted MSMEs, Start-ups, and Small Enterprises in Mumbai, Pune, and Nagpur.

• He has an MBA & PhD from IIM Mumbai.

JAYANT RAMTEKE

Business Consultant

• IIT Bombay (B.Tech) & IIM Calcutta (MBA) alumni.

• Post Graduate Program in Entrepreneurship Development from Cornell University.

• Founder & Managing Director at Meritorium Knowledge Academy.

• 22+ years of experience with Indian and MNC companies as an expert business consultant. Expertise in Banking, Business Consulting, Risk Management Consulting, Treasury and Risk Solutions Implementation.

dR. rAJESH rAUSHAN

Researcher & Senior Consultant

• Author of the book Child Health, Caste and Neighborhood in Rural India.

• Senior Consultant at Giri Institute of  Developmwnt Studies.

• Assistant Prof. at Indian Institute of Dalit Studies, Delhi.

• 10+ years of experiencein teaching and research.

Sociologist

• He has submitted his PhD at IIT Bombay, India. His research interest falls at the intersection of caste, space, Dalit, and urban life. 

• His writings in the form of research articles have appeared in South Asia Research, EPW, and as book chapters in Palgrave Macmillan and Polity Press.

• He was a Fulbright-Nehru Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of California, Santa Cruz for the academic year 2022-23.

• Master's from Tata Institute of Social Science, Mumbai.

ADV. SAURABH SINGH
Advocate at Supreme Court of India

• LLB & LLM from New Law College, Bharti Vidyapeeth, Pune.

• Diploma in cyber Law and Corporate Law from Asian School of Cyber Law.

• 5+ years of experience in Supreme Court of India as an advocate.

SUGAM BHARTI
Counselor/ Coach

• MS in cognitive Neuroscience & Neuropsychology from Univerisity of Essex, UK.

• Masters from Tata Institute of Social Science, Mumbai.

• 5+ years of experience as a professional counselor/life coach.

ZEBA ASIF
Development Practitoner

• Working as Senior Associate at the Nudge Institute.

• Masters from Tata Institute of Social Science, Mumbai.

• 5+ years of experience in the development sector.

VINEET SENGAR
Senior CAE Engineer 

• Working as Senior CAE Engineer at Mahindra & Mahindra Limited.

• B.Tech & M.Tech (Dual Degree) from Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design & Manufacturing Kancheepuram Chennai.

• Institute Gold Medalist for all-rounder student from Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design & Manufacturing Kancheepuram Chennai.

MAYUR LATA JEEVAN

Ph.D Scholar in Economics

• Ph.D scholar in School of Development Studies at TISS Mumbai

• M.Phil in Development studies from Tata Institute of Social Sciences.

• M.Sc. in Economics from Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune.

SREEJITH MURALI

Sociologist 

• Sreejith Murali is a doctoral candidate and Teaching Assistant at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai. 

• His research interests include history of education,  sociology of education, social inequality, and public policy. 

• He has a combined twelve years of experience in teaching, academic research, and development sector in various capacities.

P SRINIDHI
Historian 

• Pursuing PhD in Modern Indian History at HSS IIT Bombay.

• Holds a bachelor's and master's degree in History from Lady Shri Ram College for Women, Delhi University.