Public Private Partnership in Maritime Sector (24th July 2021 to 8th August 2021)

Distinguished Visiting Faculty and Principal Academic Advisor, National Rail and Transportation Institute of the Ministry of Railways Professor (Emeritus), Gujarat Maritime University

Prof. Raghuram is a distinguished visiting faculty and principal academic advisor of the National Rail and Transportation Institute of the Ministry of Railways. He is Professor (Emeritus) at the Gujarat Maritime University. He has been Director, IIM Bangalore, from February 2017 to July 2020. Prior to that, he was Prof. and Chairperson of the Public Systems Group at IIMA. He has been Dean (Faculty), IIMA, Vice-Chancellor of the Indian Maritime University and Indian Railways Chair Professor at IIMA. He specializes in infrastructure and transport systems, and logistics and supply chain management. He conducts research on the railway, port, shipping, aviation and road sectors. He has been part of various government policy making and advisory committees. Raghuram has a BTech from IIT, Madras; a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM, Ahmedabad; and a PhD from Northwestern University, USA.

Master Mariner, Director, True North Competency Management

Capt. Yashoverman Sharma is currently the Director of ‘True North Competency Management’, a consultancy service offering education and training solutions largely in the maritime domain. He is a Master Mariner with a distinguished sea-going career spanning 25 years, during which he sailed worldwide on various cargo ships and held command for 11 years. Thereafter he devoted his attention to maritime training, wherein his special focus over the last 23 years has been on management development training for executives in the maritime sector. He has been closely associated with the Indian Institutes of Management (Ahmedabad and Bangalore) as a guest faculty in the executive education area, for the development and conduct of MDP’s for the shipping, ports, aviation, and infrastructure sectors. In this connection, he has authored and co-authored case studies relating to the maritime industry and has specialized in the case-study method of teaching. He has been Co-Chairing the programme ‘General Management for Shipping’ being offered by IIM-A, wherein he has been teaching a variety of management subjects.

Professor of Finance in the Finance & Control Area, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore

Prof. V. Ravi Anshuman is a Professor of Finance in the Finance & Control Area of Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. Prof. Anshuman’s research interests cover the areas of market microstructure, capital markets and corporate financial management issues in emerging markets. His publications have appeared in the Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial Markets, etc. He has co-authored the international edition of the book titled Valuation with Sheridan Titman and John Martin. He has held academic positions at Boston College and visiting academic positions at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Indian School of Business and The University of Texas at Austin. He has served on committees at the National Stock Exchange (NSE), the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), the Securities Exchange Board of India (SEBI) and the Ministry of Finance (India). He is currently serving as a Part-time member on the SEBI Board. He has a Ph. D. in Finance from the University of Utah and a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

Associate Professor of Practice, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore

Prof. Anil Suraj delivers core courses on – Public Administration and Law for the Doctoral students, and Business Law for the MBA Programme, and for the Executive Management Programmes at the IIM Bangalore. Suraj regularly delivers technical sessions to Mid-career Programmes of various All India Services on “Public Contracts and Projects”. Suraj has also addressed Senior Bureaucrats of – South Korea, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, and from more than 45 countries of Africa. Suraj was a Research Fellow at the National Judicial Academy, India, and coordinated training courses for senior District Judges and High Court Justices – Economic Analysis of Law and Adjudication of Economic Laws. Publications and research pursued by Suraj include – Public Contract Law; Citizen-centricity of Regulatory Governance; Anti-dumping policy in India and the EU; and Redesign of Government Business Relations in India and the Role of Legal Process.

Ex-Marine Chief Engineer

Dr. Girish Gujar is an ex-Marine Chief Engineer with over a decade of sailing experience. Apart from a PhD from Erasmus University Rotterdam, he also has Master degrees in Finance, Maritime Economics and Law from different global universities. On completion of his sea going career, he was appointed as a Chief Executive Officer of Logion BV, a Logistics and Consultancy company based in Netherlands for over 10 years. Subsequently he joined Erasmus University Rotterdam and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University as a Lecturer. At present he is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Business of the United International College, Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai, China. He has published numerous academic papers in highly esteemed peer reviewed journals and is a regular speaker at numerous international conferences. He has also published four books.