Prof (Dr) Mukti Mishra, an outstanding Commonwealth Scholar, earned his Masters degree in Business Administration and Ph.D. from the Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia. He also holds Masters Degrees in Public Administration and Applied Economics from Utkal University (India).

After a brilliant and hugely successful career in the corporate sector with Fortune 500 companies such as Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (India), Kinhill Engineers Pvt. Ltd. (Australia) and BHP Billiton (Australia) for about 15 years, Prof Mishra turned his attention toward teaching. He was associated with Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar (XIMB) as Professor-Marketing and Coordinator Placement until 2005 and Xavier Labour Relations Institute (XLRI), Jamshedpur as Adjunct Professor (Mktg) until 2007. Currently he is an Adjunct Professor at Victoria University and Country Advisor to RMIT University, Australia.

Presently, besides his extremely demanding teaching schedule in India (MDI, Gurgaon & BIMTECH, Noida) and overseas (Australia, China, Singapore, Malaysia, and Bangladesh), Prof Mukti Mishra is on a path-breaking mission as an edu-entrepreneur to generate the opportunity and scope to skill one million school dropouts/ pass outs towards enhancing their self - employment, employability and livelihood-earning capacity by 2010. He has the conviction that educational institutions must have an immediate and sustained substantial value based impact on the community/ society it functions within.

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Prof. D. N. Rao, a British Chevening Scholar, is a Civil Engineer from Osmania University and an IIM Calcutta alumnus. He is an expert in Rural Marketing, Management and Entrepreneurship, a field in which he has pioneered successfully many projects. One among these is the Power Sector Reforms Project whose novel approach and immense success in the field prompted the Government of India frame a national policy.

As a fresher from IIM-C, Prof Rao had chosen to build a career in the rural field instead of the much coveted corporate world, where his contribution and zeal belied his youth and inexperience. He turned to teaching in 1994, when he joined Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar as Faculty and Coordinator of the Center for Development Research & Training (CENDERET).

He had a brilliant academic career for 15 years plus, during which time he consulted for many national and international organizations. In 2005, when he realized he could contribute better to the cause of the common man as an edu-entrepreneur than a pure academic he took over Jagannath Institute for Technology & Management (JITM), which was then an ailing engineering college, and within just one year’s time turned it into one of the finest colleges in Easter India.

Presently, Prof DN Rao intends to embark on creating a cadre of BDS providers for SHGs in Orissa. He is pioneering “Gram Tarang” – a rural relations organization which is linked to the SHG movement in Orissa.

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