Social Sector, SDGs, Impact Finance
Prabhat Pani is the Executive Director of the Centre for Innovation in Sustainable Development at SPJIMR. He holds a PG Diploma in Management from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and an engineering degree from BITS, Pilani. Prior to joining academics in 2019, he has held C-level leadership positions with well-known organisations within the hospitality, telecom, and FMCG industries in India, much of it in the Tata group. In his professional career spanning 40 years, he has held vital responsibilities managing portfolios of Sales, Marketing, General Management, Partnerships, and in Philanthropy. He has been consulting with the prominent philanthropic organisation, Tata Trusts. His research and teaching interests are anchored on social sector topics, SDGs, and Impact Finance.
Post Graduate Diploma in Management, 1982
Major: Marketing
B.E. (Hons.) Mechanical, 1980
Major: Production Engineering
Social Sector, SDGs, Impact Finance
Fund Raising and Resource Mobilisation, Learning NGO
Executive Director, Centre for Innovation in Sustainable Development (2022 – Present)
Head – Social Sector Projects and Interventions (2019 – 2022)
Chairperson, Post Graduate Programme in Development Management (2020 – 2022)
Head – Partnerships & Technology Platforms
Executive Director
CEO and Director
COO – Karnataka & AP
CEO – Gujarat, MP, and Chhattisgarh
CEO
COO
VP – Marketing, Sales & Customer Care
Circle Head – Kerala
VP – Marketing
Chief Marketing Manager
Divisional Marketing Manager
Tata Administrative Services Probationer
Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) – Tata Trusts, Mumbai. (2019 – Present).
Social Sector Topics
Trustee, Tata Power Community Development Trust. (2019 – Present)
Member, Governing Council, Yes Foundation (2020 – Present)
Senior Advisory Board, Health Finance Institute. (July 29, 2021 – Present)
Member, Solve an initiative of MIT (June 28, 2021 – Present)
Member, India@75 Task Force on Urbanization, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) (2017 – 2019)
Steering Committee Member, Toilet Board Coalition, Geneva, Switzerland (2017 – 2019)
Past Member, and Co-chair of Sub-committee on CSR Southern Regional Council, CII (2003 – 2006)
Member, Board of Governors, Indian Institute of Management, Sambalpur. (2018 – Present)
Visiting Faculty, XLRI, Jamshedpur (1988 – 1989)