Prof. G Venkat Raman

Executive Member

Dr. G Venkat Raman is a Professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Indore. He is a Fulbright Fellow at the Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University (Virginia, USA). In the Schar School, Venkat offers a course titled ‘China Challenge’ for the post-graduates and doctoral students. He is also researching the current state of US-China power rivalries, explicitly focusing on the technology war and climate change. Venkat is primarily a Sinologist. Apart from China studies, Venkat has developed a keen interest in Business Ethics during the last more than eleven years of his association with IIM Indore and IIM Kozhikode. Besides teaching core courses like Introduction to International Relations (for UG participants) and Ethics and CSR (for PG participants), he offers elective courses like Power Rivalries and Global Governance in the Twenty-first Century, Understanding the China Challenge, and Political Risk Management. He has completed his doctoral studies at the School of Government in China’s premier university, Peking University, Beijing. Venkat is a fluent Mandarin speaker. He has been a visiting Fellow at the BRICS Centre, Fudan University, Shanghai, and a visiting Faculty member at ICN Nancy, France. His areas of research interest are China’s interface with Global Governance and Business Ethics pedagogy. Venkat’s most recent work is a co-edited volume on BRICS. The edited volume is titled ‘Locating BRICS in the Global Order: Perspectives from Global South’ and published by Routledge, London. He has also co-authored case studies on Indian businesses in China. These are part of prestigious case centres like Ivey Publishing, ISB Hyderabad, and China Europe International Business School, Shanghai. Apart from academics, Venkat is a member of the Board of Trustees, Azad Foundation, New Delhi, which works to financially empower women below the poverty line by training them in non-traditional livelihoods.