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.

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Founder Patrons

Founder Sponsors

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Institutional

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Advisors

We are privilged to be guided by sectoral leaders and influencers in our journey to create a vibrant and catalytic ecosystem for Development Management and Leadership in India.

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Advisory Board

Statutory Advisors

Team

At ISDM, we have some of the best minds to achieve our collective vision. We work relentlessly to create a work place culture based on respect, equity, compassion and integrity within the organisation across various teams and verticals.

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Faculty

ISDM has a reputable faculty from diverse backgrounds and with vast interdisciplinary experience in management as well as development. ISDM students are exposed to thought leaders and influencers from the industry, and people with wide and varied profiles and have the unique opportunity of interacting and working with them at ISDM.

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Visiting Faculty

Guest speakers

Board of Governing Trustees

ISDM BOGT shall be the key decision-making body without fiduciary responsibilities, focusing on strategic decisions and leaving operational tasks to the leadership team of ISDM and support from executive trustees as required. The Executive Head shall present all strategic choices and decisions to the BOGT for their consideration and approval.

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Founders

ISDM is a not-for-profit Section-8 company and has audacious aspirations to build this incredible institution and an enabling ecosystem to achieve impact at scale for the sector and society. We invite carefully identified people to become Founders of ISDM and along with their contribution also be able to join our Advisory Board and influence the shape and form of this legacy-building institution.

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Technology Council
Academic Council
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Advisory Board
Guest speakers
Donors
Founder Donors
Founder Sponsors
Founder Patrons
Faculty And Bricoleurs
Sector Practitioners
Visiting Faculty
Board of Governing Trustees
Faculty
Council

A. K. Shiva Kumar

Chariman, Academic Council ISDM; Faculty, Harvard Kennedy School; Visiting Professor, Indian School of Business, Ashoka University, and S. P. Jain Institute of Management and Research

Donors

A.T.E. Chandra Foundation

Faculty
Advisors

Aarti Madhusudhan

Founder, Governance Counts

Team

Adil Mushtaq Shah

Associate Director- PGP

Team

Aditi Jha

Senior Manager - Fundraising & Partnerships

Team

Aditi Tulsyan

Associate - Content Writer

Team

Afsar Khan

Associate - Administration

Board of Governing Trustees
Advisors
Donors

Ajay Shridhar Shriram

Chairman and Sr. Managing Director of DCM Shriram Ltd.

Board of Governing Trustees

Akshay Sethi

Managing Director of the Stellar Group of Companies

Board of Governing Trustees
Donors

Ambarish Raghuvanshi

Co -Promoter & Former CFO Infoedge India Ltd.

Donors

Amit Chandra

Chairperson, Bain Capital India; Co-founder, A.T.E. Chandra Foundation

Advisors

Ankur Sarin

Faculty Member, IIM Ahmedabad

Faculty

Anshu Gupta

Founder, Goonj and Gram Swabhimaan

Team

Anuprova Ghose

Associate - Program

Advisors

Arjun Uppal

Vice President – Corporate Affairs, DCM Shriram Ltd

Advisors

Arun Khanna

Director - KARBIR ASIA

Faculty
Advisors

Arun Maira

Author and Thought Author and Thought Leader

Faculty

Aruna Pandey

Head - Research and MEL, Bharat Rural Livelihoods Foundation

Founders
Donors

Ashish Dhawan

Founder and CEO, The Convergence Foundation; Chairperson, Ashoka University and Central Square Foundation

Team

Asma Bano

Associate - People Management

Team

Bhavna Panda

Senior Associate - Communications

Donors

Biju Chandrasekharan

Managing Director, Finnovate Partners

Team

Blessy Gladys Chacko

Manager - Finance Operations

Donors

Capgemini

Donors

Citibank

Team

Deeksha Punia

Director - People Management

Team

Deepti Dwivedi

Senior Manager - Founder Office

Team

Dishani Rathore

Associate - Graphic Designer

Team

Dr Garima Sharma

Manager - Content

Board of Governing Trustees
Donors

Dr. Arindam Kumar Bhattacharya

Emeritus Partner, BCG CEO

Donors

Ford Foundation

Founders
Board of Governing Trustees
Advisors

Gaurav Shah

Co-founder & Director, Indian School of Development Management

Donors

HSBC

Advisors

Harsh Mariwala

Chairman, Marico Ltd.

Board of Governing Trustees

Indu Bhushan

Former CEO, Ayushman Bharat, Former Dir General, ADB

Donors

Infoedge

Donors

Infozech

Donors

Jaya Murthy

Co-owner and Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Primentor Inc.

Team

Justey P Alex

Manager - Program

Team

Jyotiswarup Bhanja

Senior Associate - Admissions Marketing

Donors

Kainaz Rattan Gazder

Senior Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer, Procter & Gamble

Team

Kakul Misra

Director - Strategic Capacity Building

Team

Kanak Pathak

Associate - Program

Team

Kankana Trivedi

Manager, Research, CIFSI, GKH

Donors

Kankipati Rajan Raju

Director, Invespar Pte. Ltd.

Faculty

Kannan Gopalakrishnan

Business Coach and Mentor

Faculty

Kanu Priya Sekhri

Business Coach

Faculty

Kenwyn Smith

Professor of Organisational Behaviour, University of Pennsylvania

Team

Komal Bhadana

Associate - Program (Research)

Team

Komal Waddhwa

Manager - Applications

Team

Koyel Paul

Senior Associate - People Management

Faculty

Kritika Sethia

Senior Manager at We, The People Abhiyan

Team

Krutika Rajendra Katre

Associate - Research

Team

Madhumita Mukherjee

Manager - Placements

Donors

Mahesh Srinivasan Iyer

Managing Director, Accenture.

Team

Mahua Paul

Senior Associate – Founder Officer

Team

Maitrayee Mukerji

Bricoleur

Faculty

Malini Thadani

Executive Director, India, World Monuments Fund

Team

Manish Vaish

Associate - Finance & Accounts

Team

Manu Saxena (Vedant)

Senior Associate- Communication

Team

Mariyam Hisam Siddiqui

Manager - Programs

Donors

Mekin Maheshwari

Founder and CEO, Udhyam Learning Foundation; Co-founder, Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship (G.A.M.E).

Team

Mona Dikshit

Associate Director - Program

Team

Moni Tripathi

Manager - Admissions

Team

Monica Wadhwa

Manager - Administration

Faculty

Mudit Kapoor

Associate Professor of Economics, Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), New Delhi

Team

Muhammad Aamir

Associate - Programs

Faculty

Muthu Kumaran

Manager at ACCESS Development Services

Team
Council

Naghma Abidi

Program Director, Academics

Team

Nikkita Patro

Consultant

Board of Governing Trustees
Donors

Nupur Agarwala Bahadur

Impact Investor and Co-founder of Supporting SG’s Frontline

Donors

Omidyar Network India

Council
Advisors

Padma Parthasarathy

Additional Director- TNS India Foundation

Faculty

Pearl Tiwari

CEO - Ambuja Foundation

Faculty

Pia Bakshi

Doctoral Scholar in English; Co-Founder, ARTmosphere

Team

Pooja Yadav

Associate , People Management

Advisors

Poonam Mutreja

Executive Director- Population Foundation of India

Founders
Board of Governing Trustees
Advisors

Pramath Raj Sinha

Founder and Chairman, Harappa Education; Founding Dean, Indian School of Business (ISB); Founder and Trustee, Ashoka University

Donors

Prashant Purker

Managing Director, Head of Global Finance, India, LEHMAN BROTHERS

Board of Governing Trustees

Pratul Shroff (Anchor Trustee)

Founder and former CEO of eInfochips

Board of Governing Trustees
Advisors

Preeti Shenoy

Director - New Initiatives, Quality Education Support Trust (QUEST)

Team

Priti Dargad

Senior Manager - Research

Team

Priyanka Chhaparia

Bricoleur

Team

Priyanka M Nair

Associate - Research

Team

Priyanka Rathi

Associate - Admissions

Team
Council
Faculty

Prof. L.S. Murty

Dean, Indian School of Development Management

Advisors

Puja Marwaha

CEO- CRY (Child Rights and You)

Faculty

Rajeev Bhargava

Director, CSDS

Faculty

Rama Kannan

Executive and Leadership Coach

Founders
Board of Governing Trustees
Advisors
Council

Ravi Sreedharan

Co-founder and President, Indian School of Development Management

Donors

Ravi Thakran

Chairman and CEO, Turmeric Capital Singapore Pte Ltd.

Team

Ritika Antonette Sebastian

Manager - Research

Team

Ritika Prajapati

Senior Associate- Strategic Projects

Team

Rohini Boppana

Executive - Secretary

Board of Governing Trustees
Donors

Rohit Kapoor

Vice Chairman and CEO, EXL Service Holdings, Inc.

Team

Roopa Sharma

Manager - Program

Team

Roshan Nair

Centre Lead- Centre for Phlanthropy for Inclusive Development

Team

Rupal Singhvi

Senior Associate, C&P

Advisors

S C behar

Director and Founder- Eklavya

Donors

S K Jain

Founder and Managing Partner, RatnaTraya Capital; Founder & Trustee, Plaksha University

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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