Professor Martyn Jones – Pro Vice-Chancellor, External Relations – Kingston University London

Martyn is currently the Pro Vice Chancellor for External Relations at Kingston University. He came to Kingston University from the University of Kent where he was the Director of the Business School Prior to this he was the Head of the School of Management and Business at the University of Wales. His academic interests are programme design, business strategy and HRM. He is a member of the International Accreditation Advisory Board for the Association of MBAs, and is one of the Associattion’s most experienced assessors, having chaired numerous assessment visits internationally, including at MDI in India. Academic appointments have been at the Royal Military College of Science at Shrivenham and at Cranfield School of Management, where he was Director of the MBA. Prior to this he was a Colonel in the British Army.

Jyoti Gupta is Professor of Finance at ESCP-EAP Graduate School of Management, with teaching and research activities both at the London and Paris campus. He graduated with honours in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India. He obtained his doctorate (Phd.) from the University of Manchester UK.He started his carrier as a junior lecturer and Research Fellow at the University of Manchester followed by five years in the industry; English Electric and Morgan Group as Senior Research scientist. He joined the ESCP-EAP in 1976 as an Assistant Professor. His first appointment was in Iran, at the newly created Business School (International School of Management), in Teheran. This was a joint venture between the Chamber of Commerce and Industries Paris and the Iran Chamber of Commerce. He was nominated Professor of ESCP-EAP in 1985.He has been teaching regularly in several universities including the CEIBS (China European Business School), Shanghai and the Indian Institutes of Management and at the Management Development Institute in India and Business Schools in the East European Countries.

Carlos Ramos, International Advisor of the Association of MBAs for Latin America

Over the last eight years, Carlos has been responsible for fostering the relationship between some of the most prestigious Latin American business schools and the Association of MBAs, creating awareness about the Association’s activities among the MBA stakeholders in the region.Prior to joining the Association, Carlos was responsible for the management of the ENPC MBA, the MBA of the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris, the oldest of the prestigious Grandes Écoles in France. As school administrator, he worked in projects in Argentina, France, Germany and Japan and as part of an initiative of the European Union he was in charge of developing a school for young entrepreneurs in the Caribbean.Carlos is a qualified public accountant and holds a MBA and a Master in International Business from the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris (France) and an MSc in Management from Universidad de Belgrano in Buenos Aires (Argentina).

Dr. Mark Stoddard, Accreditation Projects Manager, Association of MBAs

Mark has worked in the accreditation team at the Association of MBAs for the last five years, developing projects aimed at increasing the value of accreditation. This work includes the development of accreditation in markets such as India and the USA. He is also responsible for accreditation of the DBA and the MBM (Masters in Business and Management), and for the Association’s newly launched Research Unit. Mark has also been Associate Editor of Business Leadership Review, the Association’s peer-reviewed journal and forum for leadership development and management education since its conception in 2004, and has been instrumental in developing the publication as an important forum dedicated to the advancement of leadership and management education.

Dr Pritam Singh Emeritus Professor, MDI Gurgaon

We could not have chosen a better luminary than Padmashree Dr Pritam Singh to inaugurate the India Accreditation Seminar. Professor Emeritus of MDI Gurgaon one of the Top Ten b-schools of India. Dr Singh is a well known management guru of India. He has an unmatched track record in spearheading quality in business school education and is known as an institution builder and transformational leader. He had been twice the director of MDI Gurgaon and he also headed Indian Institute of Management Lucknow as its director. The first recipient of Padmashree the highest civilian honour in India for his contribution to business education, Dr Singh has been serving the country being part of the boards of many a leading institutions of national importance including the Reserve Bank of India, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited, Shipping Corporation of India, Unit Trust of India, Punjab National Bank…to name a few.

Dr A K Sengupta Director SIESCOMS Navi Mumbai

Director of SIES School of Management Navi Mumbai is an exceptional educationist and a passionate advocate of quality in higher education in India. A banker by background Dr Sengupta has over 25 years of corporate experience in banking and financial systems in India and abroad. He has more than 15 years of teaching / research / consulting experience. He was with World Bank as a Consultant. Dr Sengupta was also the former Director of National Institute of Bank Management, Pune, and also the Director of SP Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai . He has authored 5 books on management and has more than 50 research articles to his credit. SEAA Trust is privileged to have Dr Sengupta as the chairman of its advisory board.

Dr B S Sahay Director IMT Ghaziabad

Professor B.S. Sahay is perhaps one of the youngest directors of a top ranking management school in the country! Dr Sahay is the currently the Director of Institute of Management Technology Ghaziabad, India which he transformed into a worldclass institution in a short period of his leadership. He did his M.Tech. and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, India. Prior to joining IMT, he was Dean (Research & Consultancy) and Professor of Operations Management at Management Development Institute (MDI), Gurgaon, India. He was also an Adjunct Professor at School of International Business, Queensland University of Technology, Australia and Founding Chairman of Centre for Supply Chain Management. A keen advocate of intellectual capital building, Professor Sahay is on the Editorial Board of six international journals and many national journals. He has carried out 19 sponsored research projects and 35 consulting assignments and published/ presented over 135 papers in international/national journals and conferences. He has published ten books.

A.Thothathri Raman SEAA Managing Trustee & Consulting Editor of Business India

Mr Raman is a rare media person with an accomplished trackrecord in academic contributions in the area of business and technology education. A post graduate in journalism and a graduate in Economics from Madras University, Mr Raman has over three decades of experience of being a business journalist. He has worked with the best of the business magazines and newspapers including the Business World, Economic Times, The Hindu business pages, Observer of Business & Politics and Business India. He is a consulting editor with Business India and he has been with the magazine for the past 15 years. Widely travelled in India and abroad, His portfolio writing on various subjects counted over a hundred and the articles and features may number in thousands. Mr Raman is well known for his work in b-school education quality benchmarking through his nearly decade old annual survey of b-schools to rank these based on hard core research based data published in Business India. He has authored seven books on management and he teaches at some of the country's leading business schools. He also has an unusual HR profile being the only non-HR person to be inducted to the National HRD Network (NHRDN) National Board.. He has also been spearheading the movement to introduce global accreditation benchmarks to Indian b-schools and he has convened two major international conferences on the subject at Mumbai and Delhi this year. He has formed a higher education Quality advocacy public trust standards for educational advancement and accreditation (SEAA) to help in bringing together like mnded people to improve the quality of higher education in the country

Dr Dinesh Director Accreditation AICTE

Dr Dinesh is a rare academic turned bureaucrat and a key member of the Indian b-school regulatory system presided over by the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE). An advisor to the AICTE, Dr Dinesh has recently assumed charge as Director Accreditation of the regulatory body. He believes in open minded dialogue with the b-school community to share information and in the process raise the bar on quality among business schools of India. He also believes the regulatory body should have a global mindset and is striving to expand the horizons of the regulator to international l arena.

Dr V Panduranga Rao Chief Academic Advisor to ICFAI University,

Dr Rao is a well known name in the academic circle. Being from the famed BITS Pilani, Rao has a rigorous academic grounding and a penchant for perfection, a trait which he exhibited while building the ICFAI Business School into a formidable one surpassing all the business schools in India by sheer size in terms of student admissions and network of campuses. A strong believer in standardisation of quality, Dr Rao has brought a number of quality paradigms to the system of education in the ICFAI group which has emerged as the largest private sector business school chain in India. Rao is an acknowledge leader in business school education and a keen advocate of international accreditation on the belief that peer evaluation was the best means of ensuring quality as akin to external bureacratic regulation in business schools.