Geetha Krishnan

Chief – Academic Outreach and Career Development
Head – Digital Blended Learning
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EDUCATION:
2024    Executive Doctoral Programme, Strategic Management, Indian Institute of Management (IIM),

             Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India

1993    PGDM, Management, Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
1991    BSc, Mathematics National College, Bharathidasan University Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India

Countries: India
States: Karnataka, Maharashtra, Telangana, Tamil Nadu
Cities: Bengaluru, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, Tiruchirappalli
Languages: English, Tamil, Hindi

Geetha Krishnan is Chief – Academic Outreach and Career Development and Head – Digital Blended Learning at IIHS. He provides strategic insight and direction to grow IIHS’s teaching and training portfolios to drive urban transformation at scale in the country.

 

In a career spanning more than 30 years, Geetha has worked in various senior management and leadership capacities across multiple sectors—higher education, entrepreneurship development, online learning, and advertising. He has worked with organisations like the Indian School of Business and the Tata Group, and consulted with international and national institutions like the UNEP, Babson College, Leeds University, the National Stock Exchange, and IIIT Sri City on a wide variety of assignments around curriculum development, online learning, and executive education.

 

Geetha has a master’s degree from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and a doctoral degree in strategy and entrepreneurship from the Indian Institute of Management, Indore. His research and teaching interests are in the areas of strategy and entrepreneurship.

Teaching

  • Social Entrepreneurship Enterprise development, Urban Fellows Programme, IIHS
  • Developing an Entrepreneurial Mindset Enterprise development, Urban Fellows Programme, IIHS
  • The Art and Science of Economic Policy, Public policy, Digital Blended Learning (DBL) course, IIHS

 

Training

  • Capacity Building Programme for Town Planning Officials of Maharashtra (YASHADA), Urban Practitioners’ Programme (UPP), IIHS
  • Capacity Building Programmes on Urban Development (DoPT), Urban Practitioners’ Programme (UPP), IIHS
  • Crafting a Value Proposition, Solar Decathlon India, IIHS
  • Capacity Building Programmes for MoRTH, Urban Practitioners’ Programme (UPP), IIHS