Brief Background Thothathri Raman is a unique combination of a Senior Business Editor, Professor of Management, Award Winning Author, Knowledge consultant, HR Quality champion, B-schools ratings expert and a well-known campaigner for bringing in global benchmarks of quality through International Accreditation. He pioneered the rating and ranking process for business schools in India, and has been running India’s largest B–school rating at Business India, with whom he is associated as a Consulting Editor. With over three decades of professional experience, Mr. Raman is widely networked with Indian and International corporate and academia. He has the track record of having worked with some of the best known publications of the country, including Financial Express, Business World, The Hindu, Economic Times, Observer of Business and Politics and Business India. He is also credited with revamping the Indian Management Journal, the largest circulated management journal of All India Management Association (AIMA), as its editor for four years. Mr. Raman has written and published seven books on management and edited 14 others for AIMA, DMA and other leading business schools. His next book “The Other Brother”, extolling a unique concept of philanthropy in education, successfully working for the last eight decades at PSG Coimbatore, is due for release in a few weeks. Currently, he is working on a book on corporate leadership. His biggest contribution to date is to bring all the top rated international accreditation agencies to India to showcase their quality benchmarks through a series of conferences he has conducted through an exclusive platform that he has created, called the Standards for Educational Advancement and Accreditation (SEAA). The series of conferences across the country brought AACSB International, AMBA, EQUIS, ACBSP and IACBE, the Top Five global accreditation agencies in that order, to India. The next conference on International Accreditation is scheduled to take place in Bangalore on 22 February 2010. Through the efforts of SEAA, AMBA inducted the first Indian on its Board and a second Indian is joining the Board of IACBE of the USA. Indian experts joining the international accreditation agencies boards would help greatly in conveying the local ground realities when the accreditation process kicks in. Mr. Raman’s work with NHRDN has been well acknowledged and he has been advising the association on the supply side of HR and has been a key contributor to the national debate on HR quality. He has played a key role in bringing out the HRD Newsletter for past five years. He is represented on several National and international Associations, Business Schools and Institutions as advisor, mentor or lifetime member. He is the only non-HR person to be inducted to the national board of India’s largest association of HR professionals, the National HRD Network (NHRDN). He is also a member of the Management Accreditation committee of National Board of Accreditation (NBA) of the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE). He is a member of the International Association of Ecommerce Consultants, Atlanta, USA. He is also a member of IIT Roorkee syllabus making panel. Mr. Raman also teaches at some of India’s prestigious management schools like MDI Gurgaon, IMT, BIMM & SCMLD Pune etc., He is a founding member of the Board of Governors of Asian School of Business Management (ASBM) Bhubaneshwar.   He is a member of a number of professional bodies including the International Association of E-commerce Consultants www.eccouncil.org He is a strong advocate of self regulation through accreditation and a market driven growth for b-schools in India. He addresses many public forums regularly around the country on the theme of quality in management education and has been campaigning hard for compliance led growth of management education in India.

Address for Communication Email : atraman@gmail.com, atr124@yahoo.com Mobile: 91-11-9811297249
Office	Residence
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QUALIFICATION

BA Degree in Economics with a First Class from  Madras University MA Degree in Journalism and Mass  Communication from Alagappa University Registered for PhD from GJ University, Hisar

SKILLSET Generic

Business Analysis Sectoral studies and research Extensive macroeconomic knowledge and research Multiple domain knowledge Project implementation and management Team building and leadership Time management   and sticking to deadline Speed and accuracy in implementation

Communication

Extensive exposure to all forms of media Sepecialisation in print Special focus on start ups Brochure development Book writing and publishing Newsletter development Journals editing and conceptualization Keen sense of graphics, colours, language  and brevity

Workshops/seminars

Faculty and student development workshops at leading management institutes including  MDI, Gurgaon, IMT Ghaziabad, LBSIM, Delhi, Fore School, Delhi and others.

Community

Comfortable with community  work Founder member of  Resident Welfare Associations in Delhi and Mumbai Founder member of NGOs in Delhi  and in Mumbai

Technology

Wide exposure to contemporary communication technologies. Promoter and co-promoter of  popular websites  in management  www.bibscholsurvey.com www.seaastandards.org www.managementquest.com www.eduvalue.com Content advise to www.asbm.ac.in, www.aima-ind.org Personal website www.atraman.com Workshops in Information Search conducted at  Symbiosis centre for HRD, Pune; IIMM Pune, Sadhana school pune, MDI Delhi,

RESEARCH

Business schools quality ranking and rating  since year 2000 covering around 400 schools  and more than 2 lakh students annually. Two year AICTE study (between 2002 and 2003) for determining whether business schools teach leadership  jointly with IIM Bangalore, IIM Lucknow and MDI Gurgaon, led by Dr Asha Bhandarkar of MDI.

DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE

Mass Media, Print, Radio, Television, Knowledge management (KM), Infrastructure, financial markets,  Banking, foreign exchange, telecommunications, new economy, enterprise management, corporate reporting, oil and energy, non-coventional energy, especially Wind power and Business School Education.

EXPERIENCE

Media      Experience  : 31 years as Business  Journalist FINANCIAL EXPRESS Daily Calcutta, Chennai BUSINESS WORLD Fortnightly Chennai THE HINDU Daily Chennai THE ECONOMIC TIMES Daily Bangalore THE OBSERVER OF BUSINESS Daily Hyderabad, Mumbai INDIAN MANAGEMENT Journal New Delhi BUSINESS INDIA Fortnightly New Delhi, Mumbai

Extensive print journalism experience Experience of working with leading business magazines Business World, Business India Experience of being editor of Indian Management Journal Delhi Editing  and designing newspapers (Financial Express Chennai, Economic Times Bangalore and Observer of Business and Politics at Mumbai and Hyderabad) Youth programme  in All India Radio Coimbatore as a student News Roundup programme for International broadcasting in short wave of All India Radio at New Delhi Interviews in Business India Television

THE PORTFOLIOS COVERED INCLUDED

Economy Corporate Reporting Stock Markets Foreign Exchange markets Commodity Fertiliser Infrastructure Power Railways Energy Oil Telecommunications Information Technology Banking and Investment New Economy Non-conventional Energy Management Education  many more.....

SPECIAL MENTION

Columns in Observer of Business and Politics and NHRD Network Monthly Newsletter.  Ran special commodity pages dealing mainly in Coffee and Silk and Opp-ed pages covering infrastructure, Banking and Financial reforms at The Economic Times. Ran the Foreign Exchange Market report for two years at Business India Magazine. First Indian journalist to comment extensively on Euro, nearly a year before its launch, after a visit to Brussels. Relaunched  a three and half decade old defunct publication INDIAN MANAGEMENT Journal of All India Management Association (AIMA) and brought it to a circulation level of 35,000 copies within five months of its relaunch. The journal is now rated as India’s number one professional Management journal with a readership of over 100,000.

OTHER DISTINCTIONS

Prize winning author of a Knowledge Management book adjudged as the best management book of the year 2003 in India. Only non-HR and media person to be on the National Board of NHRDN Consulting Editor of  India’s first E-commerce Journal brought out by All Indian Management Association Consulting editor for  Management Review Quarterly of Delhi Management Association which I helped revamp completely Visiting faculty  on the E-Management subjects (BPR, ERP, E-governance, Knowledge Management, E-commerce…) at Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA), Amity Business School, Times School of Marketing  and All India Management Association (AIMA) Published special features on  non-conventional energy with International journals, Windpower Monthly Holland and New Energie Germany

AUTHORED BOOKS

Lead author of an ERP book, ERP Genie (Vikas Publishing February 2000) written in a simple style especially aimed at professionals lacking IT background! An author of a popular Science Fiction e-Commerce@Love   published as a e-book at www.firstprint.com  and later published as popular fiction Hope  (Pentagon Delhi 2002) Author of  the background note for the International Conclave on E-Commerce of FICCI held on February 15  2000. Author of a study guide on Knowledge Management for All India Management Association’s Ph.d. programme on Information Technology. Book on Special Economic Zones  FTZs to SEZs, the Great Indian Dream  (pentagon  2002) Book on  Special Economic  Zones Law  (Bharat Law books 2002 Knowledge Management,  A resource Book  (Excel Books 2003) Crisis Management and Media response (University of Petroleum and Energy Sciences)

VISITING FACULTY

MDI Gurgaon teaching Creative Corporate Communication IMT Ghaziabad: Business Communication Sadhana Centre for Management and Leadership, Pune : Knowledge Management for Business Leadership Indian Institute of Modern Management, Pune: Being at a Business School and Business Leadership workshop series Institute of Business Administration IB A, Bangalore:  Business Leadership Aligarh Muslim University--All India Management Association doctoral programme in Business Management (subject: Knowledge Management Symbiosis centre for Management and HRD, Pune (subject: Information Search) Asian School of Business Management, Bhubaneshwar Business Communication  and Business Leadership Institute of Business and administration (IBAT) Bhubaneshwar: E-commerce, E-governance School of Management Sciences Varanasi: Knowledge Management and Ethics, values and corporate governance Lalbahadur Shastri Institute of Management Delhi: corporate governance

DIRECTORSHIPS

Chairman Standards for Educational Advancement & Accreditation Trust (SEAA) New Delhi www.seaastandards.org Member Board of Governors of Asian School of Business Management Bhubaneshwar (www.asbm.ac.in) Member National Board of NHRDN Director Digital Writers Pvt Ltd Delhi (www.digitalwriters.org) member Board of Governors of myideasinfinite.com MEMBER OF National HRD Network (www.nhrd.org) Academic Advisory panel of  Business Communication group  of MDI  Gurgaon (www.mdi.ac.in) Academic board  SMS Varanasi (www.smsvaranasi.ac.in ) knowledge consultant www.epsfi.org Academic Advisor First International Conference on Accreditation at NMIMS University on March 3-4 2008

PERSONALITY

Soft-spoken and strong on    team building and leadership. Ability to work against deadline and clear headed during the times of crisis.  Quietly persuasive with a strong record of deliverables

FAMILY BACKGROUND

51 year old father of  two kids, Vidhaat 20 years and Adhiti 17 years and wife Ms Smitha works with Amity International School at Noida.  Settled in Delhi