SIDHARTH BALAKRISHNA

Sidharth Balakrishna has over 22 years' corporate experience in senior management roles. He holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Calcutta (2004 batch) and an Economics degree from the Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC) (2002 batch).

His corporate experience includes the media & entertainment, artificial intelligence, energy, supply chain, renewables and education sectors. He has been an Executive Board Director and Chief Strategy & Innovation Officer at one of India's largest conglomerates; and been employed with major oil and gas firms such as Royal Dutch Shell, Cairn India (Vedanta) and Management Consultants such as KPMG and Accenture in Corporate Strategy roles.

He has authored multiple academic books, published by Pearson and SAGE; and numerous articles for the popular press including for the London School of Economics' (LSE), the Economic Times, the Hindu-Business Line etc.

He mentors startups with MIT, Boston, USA as well as MassChallenge Boston, New York, Texas & Tel Aviv, Israel.

He is an Adjunct Faculty at a number of top management institutes including IIM Indore, IIM Shillong, BITS Pilani, SRCC etc and has presented papers in over a dozen countries from London to Mozambique. He has also delivered over 1000 training sessions for corporate executives pertaining to Corporate Strategy, Decision Making, Digital Transformation, Change Management etc.