DPU FIIE Team

Prof. (Dr.) Sanjeev Chaturvedi has joined as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at DPU FIIE, Dr. D. Y. Patil Vidyapeeth, Pune. Before joining Dr. Chaturvedi was working as Chief Academic Advisor at European Institute of Management, Malta. Previously he was associated with EDII (Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India) Ahmadabad as Chairman of PG Program and was deputed as Advisor at Tashkent, Uzbekistan at India Uzbekistan Entrepreneurship Development Centre (IUEDC) from 2020 to 2022. (A Government of India and Uzbekistan Joint Venture).

Dr. Chaturvedi has travelled to more than 40 Countries. He is a seasoned academician, an academic administrator, author and a philosopher with a firm grip on entrepreneurship and International Economics with 36 Years of Experience working across Industry and Academics.

In Industry he has worked at senior positions as General Manager in Lan Eseda Industries Ltd, Deputy Director at Engineering Export Promotion Council (GOI Undertaking) and Resident Director at Ph. D. Chamber of Commerce and Industry etc.

During his academic journey he has served as Associate Dean at IILM-Business School-New Delhi, as Professor at Amity University, Noida campus, as Dean at Symbiosis Group, Pune and Chief Academic Officer at NGASCE- Narsee Monjee University, Mumbai. He was also visiting faculty to California State University, San Bernardino, Los Angeles USA and Birkbeck University, London, UK regularly. He has also worked as DG- National Institute of MSME,) Hyderabad. He has written 6 books on Entrepreneurship. His last book was released in December,2023 “Kabir Ke 50 Dohe - 50 Lessons on Entrepreneurship.”

Dr. Chaturvedi is also on various boards of Ministry of MSME, Ministry of External Affairs, British Management University and Sharda University-Tashkent etc.

Dr. Zafar Azeem, Associate Professor, Dr. D. Y. Patil College of Physiotherapy, Pune, has a rich and diverse experience of over a decade into Physiotherapy practice, research and education. Apart from taking keen interests into developing clinically competent Physiotherapy graduates and researchers at his department, he is involved with DPU Incubation Centre, Pune with specific responsibilities from serving as an expert resource for cultivating a system of entrepreneurship development and Start ups to motivating young researchers at the University to innovate their skills with an entrepreneurial mindset.

Dr. Zafar has had a major stint with International Student Affairs at Universities in Delhi and Gujarat wherein his major responsibilities were to attract International students in Indian Universities and create a network of professionals in Internationalising educational systems and cultivate cross cultural diversity in higher educational Institutions.

As a significant member of Start up and Innovation Cell at Dr. D. Y. Patil College of Physiotherapy, Pune, he was invited as Resource person during “Industrial Motivation Campaign” organised for Physiotherapy students at the college to discuss about basic concepts of entrepreneurship and employability skills requirement in an emerging Physiotherapy entrepreneurship-centric practice model.