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More Than Teachers.

An Ecosystem.

At ISDM, learning is shaped by a deliberately assembled ecosystem of faculty, sector practitioners, and bricoleurs. Together, they bring academic rigour, lived experience, and reflective mentorship to create a learning environment that is informed by the realities of the field, not instruction alone.

With our unique bricolage model, academic rigour meets field insight, and students are supported in integrating both into their own practice.

 Faculty And Bricoleurs
Visiting Faculty
Sector Practitioners

Academic anchors who bring conceptual clarity, research depth, and rigour across the program

Dr Maitrayee Mukerji

Faculty & Bricoleur

Dr Priyanka Chhaparia

Faculty And Bricoleur

Kakul Mishra

Director, Strategic Capacity Building, ISDM

Mona Kothari Dikshit

Associate Academic Director, PGP-DM; Faculty And Bricoleur

Prof. LS Murthy

Dean, ISDM

Ravi Sreedharan

Co-Founder & President, ISDM

Sajit Nair

Senior Manager, Digital, ISDM

Sharad Agarwal

Co-Founder, ISDM

Shilpa Jhawar

Bricoleur

Simrita Kaur

Bricoleur & Faculty

Sparsh Verma

Manager, Marketing, ISDM

Experts who teach from real-world experience, bringing field insight directly into the classroom.

Ajit Chaudhuri

Former Chief Strategy Officer, Tata Steel Foundation

Akhtar Badshah

Distinguished Practitioner, University of Washington

Anand Mistry

Co-Founder, ProjectCHAKRA

Ankur Kulshrestha

Corporate Finance & Strategy Expert

Arjun Shekhar

Co-Founder & Senior Partner, Vyaktitva

Arun Bhattacharyya

Strategic Communication Specialist, VINCI Energies India

Ashish Agarwal

Founder, Bridge4Change Foundation

Ashraf Patel  

Co-Founder, Pravah & ComMutiny

Avani Kapur

Founder & Director, ResGov

Bipasha Roy

Design Thinking & Innovation Facilitator

Dr Anshuman Karol

Lead, Governance and Climate Action, PRIA

Dr Jahnvi Andharia

Co-Founder, ANANDI

Dr Kaustuv Kanti Bandyopadhyay

Director, Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA)

Dr Sangeeta Shukla

Associate Dean, Academics & Evaluation, Bennett University

Ishita Singh

Facilitator, We The People Abhiyan

Junofy Rozarina

Founder & CEO, India Behavioural Economics Network

Kaustubh Khare

Learning Experience Designer & Educator

Khilesh Chaturvedi

Capacity Building & Evaluation Expert

Laavanya Tamang

Senior Research Associate, ResGov

Maulik Chauhan

Founder, Trestle Research and Consulting

Meenu Venkateswaran

Co-Founder, Pravah & ComMutiny

Mihir Mathur

Founder Director, DESTA Research

Nikita Rakhyani

Lead, PRIA International Academy

P.R. Ganapathy

Chairman, Chennai Regional Advisory Board, Teach For India

Pritika Malhotra

Senior Research Associate, Foundation for Responsive Governance

Rashmi Hegde

Faculty

Ruchi Ghose

Founder Director, Viridus Social Impact Solutions

Shankar Venkateswaran

Founding Team Member, ECube Investment Advisors

Shivangi Bhasin

Writing Preceptor, ISDM

Shruti Priya

Service Engagement Specialist, PRIA International Academy

Sidharth Santhosh

Founding Team Member, ResGov

Siva Sankar Kantheti

Co-Founder, Viridus Social Impact Solutions

Sudarshan Rodriguez

CEO, RTLWorks

Sudha Nair

Faculty

Sujatha Rao

Co-Founder, Viridus Social Impact Solutions

Suman Srivastava

Founder, Marketing Unplugged

Swapnil Agarwal

Founder, Dhwani Rural Information Systems

Vinay Mahajan

Co-Creator, Loknaad

Vinita G. Singh

Managing Trustee, We The People Abhiyan

Academic anchors who bring conceptual clarity, research depth, and rigour across the program

Aakash Sethi

CEO, QUEST Alliance

Amitabh Behar

Executive Director, Oxfam International

Ankur Sarin

Faculty, IIM Ahmedabad

Arjun Uppal

VP Corporate Affairs, DCM Shriram

Dr Monica Sharma

Author And Practitioner-Coach

Dr Nidhi Pundhir

Senior VP, Global CSR, HCLTech

Maharshi Vaishnav

CEO, Motilal Oswal Foundation

Naghma Mulla

CEO & Director, EdelGive Foundation

Somya Nand

Director-Founder, Gubbachi Learning Community

Yamini Aiyar

Senior Visiting Fellow, Brown University

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Why Management Matters in the Social Sector?

Impact does not scale on intent alone.

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India’s social sector is operating at an unprecedented scale and ambition—seeking to deliver measurable outcomes, manage complexity, and steward public and philanthropic capital responsibly.

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What holds the sector back is not ambition or intent. It is the absence of leadership and management capability designed for social purpose organisations.

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While business has Business Management and the state has Public Administration, the social sector has long lacked a comparable discipline to build leaders, strengthen institutions, and sustain impact over time.

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Development Management addresses this gap.

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It equips leaders to build organisations that endure, adapt, and deliver sustained impact at scale—without losing sight of purpose, ethics, or context.

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Because social change demands stronger leadership.

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What Is Development Management?

A discipline built for leaders of social purpose organisations.

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Development Management is a field of practice and learning focused on leading and managing organisations that exist to advance social development.

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It draws from management sciences, public systems, and social theory, but is fundamentally shaped by the realities of development work. It recognises that social purpose organisations operate amid multiple stakeholders, unequal power structures, uncertain outcomes, and deep contextual complexity.

At its core, Development Management helps leaders to:

  • build organisations that are mission-driven and well-managed
  • make decisions that balance impact, scale, and sustainability
  • design systems that respond to people, context, and change
ISDM’S Role

Advancing Development Management as a discipline.

ISDM exists to advance and anchor Development Management as a foundational discipline for India’s social sector.

Its role is to ensure that Development Management is not treated as an abstract concept, but embedded in how leaders are prepared, organisations are built, and institutions endure. By shaping leadership pathways, contributing field-informed knowledge, and strengthening organisational capability, ISDM helps establish Development Management as a shared standard for leadership and management in social development.

In doing so, ISDM operates at the level of the ecosystem—supporting the long-term capability of organisations and leaders working toward India’s social development goals.

Our Values

The beliefs that anchor our intent and ethics

Equity

‍We build leadership spaces where dignity, access, and opportunity are non-negotiable.

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‍We recognise structural inequality and work actively to counter it—across caste, class, gender, language, faith, sexuality, and geography. Equity shapes who gets to lead, whose voices are heard, and how institutions are built.


Compassion

‍We lead with humanity—towards others and ourselves.

‍We create learning environments that honour vulnerability, difference, and growth. Compassion at ISDM is not softness; it is the practice of listening deeply, engaging honestly, and holding complexity with care.


Courage

‍We choose clarity, even when it is uncomfortable.

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‍We question assumptions, redesign what no longer serves, and express principled disagreement when needed. Courage shows up in learning, unlearning, apologising, failing, and beginning again—with integrity.



Justice

‍We act with responsibility, transparency, and accountability.‍

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Justice guides how we teach, research, partner, and build institutions. We value truth, dialogue, and trust—and commit to practices that are ethical, sustainable, and rooted in democratic values.

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