Vidhula Venugopal

Vidhula Venugopal is an accomplished academic and practitioner in the fields of strategy and entrepreneurship, currently serving as an Associate Professor at SPJIMR SP Jain Institute of Management & Research since December 2023. Previous roles include Government & Corporate Affairs Intern at Tata Group, Assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Management Nagpur, where significant contributions included leading the Centre for Entrepreneurship and directing various impactful educational programs such as the Mahatma Gandhi National Fellowship and Women Start-Up Programme. Vidhula also served as Executive Director at IIM Nagpur Foundation for Entrepreneurship Development, and held roles as Urban Scholar with the UN Global Compact Cities Programme, Postdoctoral Fellow at RMIT University, and Research Scholar at Griffith University. Vidhula's educational background includes a Master of Public Policy from The London School of Economics and Political Science, a PhD in Corporate Strategy and Policy from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, and degrees in Mathematics and Physics from Mangalore University.