Dr. S Raghunath, Professor of Corporate Strategy and Policy at IIM Bangalore, specializes in analyzing and advising on business negotiations. He teaches post-graduate and doctoral courses in Alliance Management, Strategic Networks and Corporate Strategy and leads IIMB executive programmes on Negotiations. He has offered programmes on Negotiations to foreign diplomats from Western and Eastern Europe, Africa, Russia, Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam. For the past 17 years he has offered senior management programmes in business negotiations to over 256 companies both domestic and multinational. He is an author of a number of academic and popular articles as well as field case studies and teaching materials.
Professor Anil B. Suraj, at IIM Bangalore delivers core courses on – Public Administration and Law for the Fellow students, and Business Law for the MBA Programme, and for the Executive Management Programmes. Suraj has jointly coordinated the Phase-IV Mid-Career Training Programme in 2008, 2009 and 2010 for the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) Officers, and regularly delivers technical, sessions to Mid-career programmes of various All India Services on “Judicial Review of Policy making”, “WTO & TRIPS”; and “Intellectual Property Rights & Data Protection”.
Prior of joining IIM Bangalore in March 2007, Suraj was a Research Fellow at the National Judicial Academy, India, wherein he coordinated training courses for senior District Judges and High Court Justices on various topics, including – Economic Analysis of Law and Adjudication of Economic Laws. At the Academy, Suraj was involved in coordinating the first ever initiative of a course module and a training programme on Court Management and Judicial Administration in India. Suraj has also been a Member of the first Working Group of the Planning Commission for Union Minister of Law and Justice for the 12th Five Year Plan (2012-2017).
Since graduating from the National Law School Bangalore in 2000, and completing doctoral study on the theme of “Defensive Mechanisms under the WTO”, the range of research themes pursued by Suraj includes – Public Contract Law; Citizen-centricity of Regulatory Governance; Anti-dumping policy in India and the EU; Legal impact of WTO/TRIPs on small-scale industries; Access to justice for the Poor and the Disadvantaged; and Judicial Impact Assessment Models.
Suraj has also co-authored a research paper titled “Redesign of Government Business Relations in India and the Role of Legal Process” presented at, and published by, the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, at the Stanford University. Suraj has also published a paper on – “Transfer of Technology in India; Interface of IPRs and Competition Policy” and completed research on the theme – “Emerging jurisprudence of Public Contract Law in India”.