16/07/2016
Koustubh Panda Joydeep Das Parthasarathi Sengupta Rita Banerjee Anamika Mukherjee
OUR NEXT GUEST FOR CAFE PRESIDENCIAN:
Deepanwita Chattopadhyay, Chairman & CEO of IKP Knowledge Park, is responsible for developing the first Life Science Research Park in India and establishing a sustainable innovation and knowledge cluster around a science park through a Public-Private Partnership model. She has deep interest in entrepreneurship, incubation and institution building.
After brief stints as faculty at the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, BITS, Pilani and as freelance writer and editor of science material for children, Deepanwita joined the telecom advisory practice of ICICI in 1994. She advised both government agencies and the private sector on telecom regulation & policy, convergence issues, market forecasts and entry strategies. She was deputed to IKP Knowledge Park as its CEO in August 2001.
Ms. Chattopadhyay serves as a Director on the Boards of IKP Investment Management Company Pvt. Ltd. and the US-India Science & Technology Endowment Board, serves as a member of the Governing Body of the National Institute of Immunology and the Lucknow Biotech Park, a member of the Wellcome Trust’s committee on Affordable Healthcare in India and several other government committees. She is an Executive Council Member of the Society for Technology Managers (STEM) and the Association of Biotech Led Enterprises (ABLE). She also served as an international Director on the Board of the International Association of Science Parks (IASP) for 2 years till May 2012.
