Prof. Savita Shankar joined the faculty of the AIM Center for Development Management in December 2011. She completed her Doctor of Philosophy (Public Policy) at the National University of Singapore’s Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in June 2011. In her dissertation, she analyzed the role of microfinance programs in promoting financial inclusion in India. She also has an MBA from the University of Delhi.
Before joining AIM, Prof. Shankar taught at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy from 2007 to 2011 and was adjunct professor at the Institute for Financial Management and Research in Chennai, India, from 2003 to 2006. Prior to teaching, she had 10 years’ work experience in corporate banking. She started as a management trainee and became manager at the Export Import Bank of India (1993-2000), and then served as assistant vice president/chief manager of Corporate Banking at ICICI Bank, Chennai (2000-2003).
Prof. Shankar has several publications. Her forthcoming publication is a chapter in an edited volume to be published by Routledge. The chapter is entitled “Matching Finance with Client Needs: Some pointers from a field study.”
Prof. Gulliver Go joined the core faculty of the W. SyCip Graduate School of Business this month. He has been teaching at AIM as an adjunct professor since 2000. From 2009 to 2011, he served as the Business Cluster head at Enderun Colleges, where he managed the BS Business Administration adjunct faculty and assisted in developing corporate partnerships.
Before joining AIM full-time, Prof. Go was an independent consultant for Satori Consultancy Inc. and the Business Development director of Summit Internet Investments. He also served as an investment analyst (2000-2001) at AIM.
Prof. Go will continue to oversee the Written Analysis of Case course in the MBA, this time as lead faculty. He will take over Asian Business Systems and implement the Alumni Hour, where a senior alumnus gives a talk on a key topic in the MBA curriculum every week.
Prof. Go earned his MBA, With Distinction, from AIM.
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