D.V.R. Seshadri is a Professor of Marketing (Practice) at the Indian School of Business (ISB). Prior to joining ISB in 2016, he taught at several IIMs including Bangalore, Ahmedabad, and most recently Udaipur, where he had been since 2012. From 1985 to  2000, he worked in a variety of companies (public sector, family business and entrepreneurial startups, the last ten of them as CEO) spanning a variety of industries, including petroleum refining and petrochemicals, bulk drugs, active pharmaceutical ingredients, precision manufacturing, and software.

His areas of interest include B2B marketing, innovation and entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship. He is actively involved with several NGOs such as Aravind Eye Care Systems and the DHAN Foundation in Madurai, as well as, with several top corporates such as the Tata Group and Larsen & Toubro (L&T). He has been engaged in teaching and consulting capacity with over 100 large corporates, both India-based and foreign MNCs. He has taught a variety of courses and programmes in MBA, executive MBA, long duration programmes in public policy, short duration executive education programs, etc. Courses that he has taught include: Business-to-Business Market Management, Reinventing through Entrepreneurial and Intrapreneurial Leadership, Strategy Formulation and Implementation, Inspired Leadership through Personal Mastery, and Reinventing the Government.

Professor Seshadri has co-authored several books, including ‘Innovation Management,’ with Shlomo Maital, Sage India in 2007; ‘Global Risk / Global Opportunity,’ with Shlomo Maital, Sage India, in June 2010; the Indian adaptation of ‘Business Market Management (B2B): Understanding, Creating and Delivering Value,’ with James Anderson, James Narus and Das Narayandas, Pearson Publishing, in June 2010; and ‘Smartonomics for the Global Manager: Simple, Powerful Macroeconomic Tools For Success in an Uncertain World’ with Shlomo Maital, Sage India, 2016. He has developed over hundred case studies and authored several application-oriented journal articles in his areas of interest.

Ashwini Chhatre is an Associate Professor of Public Policy and currently serves as the Executive Director of the Bharti Institute of Public Policy (BIPP) at the Indian School of Business (ISB). Professor Chhatre is an interdisciplinary scholar whose research interests broadly centre on the dynamic cross-scale interactions between governance, economic development, and environmental protection. He relocated to India from the US in 2014 to join the faculty at the Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. He spent 13 years in the US, including five in graduate school at Duke University, where he was awarded a PhD in Political Science. In 2006-07, Professor Chhatre became the first Giorgio Ruffolo Post-doctoral Fellow in Sustainability Science at Harvard University, before joining the Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign.

Between completing his BA in Economics from the University of Delhi in 1990 and starting his PhD at Duke University, he spent 11 years working in different parts of India, primarily as a community organiser and social activist on issues related to natural resources such as land, forests, and water. A background in Economics, graduate training in Political Science, and a long-standing engagement with scholarship in Geography, Anthropology, Landscape Ecology, and Environmental History ensure that his research is never confined to a single discipline.

Professor Chhatre’s main research interests lie in exploring the intersection of democracy, environment, and development, with a focus on decentralised forest governance, climate change vulnerability and adaptation, and multifunctional agriculture. Over the past 20 years, the scope of his research projects has ranged from household-level to global analysis, consistently bridging research, policy, and practice.

He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of World Development Perspectives (2016-19), served as Senior Editor of Conservation Letters (2009-2014), and has published one book and several articles in leading journals including Science, and PNAS.