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Mr Abheek Singhi endows “Professors Narendra and Chandra Singhi Chair”

IIT Alum Abheek Singhi (B.Tech, Chemical Engineering 1995) has endowed the “Professors Narendra and Chandra Singhi Chair” in Public Policy in honour of his academician parents.


Professor Narendra Kumar Singhi had a long and distinguished career focusing on Sociological Theory, Sociology of Development, Education, Health and Gender. He was a Fulbright Scholar, a Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University, Maison De Sciences, Paris, Indian Institute of Advances Studies, Simla. He was a visiting Professor at University of London and University of West Indies. He was the Head of Dept of Sociology at University of Rajasthan and a Senior Fellow at Institute of Development Studies. Prof Singhi authored more than 10 books and numerous papers in international and Indian journals.

Dr Chandralata Singhi taught Chemistry for nearly 35 years focusing on Organic chemistry teaching generations of students at Maharani College and Kanoria College, Jaipur. She did her Phd on Chemical studies on Indian medicinal plants and published several papers on the topic.

Abheek is a Senior Partner and Managing Director with The Boston Consulting Group, and has led BCG’s Consumer and Retail practice in Asia-Pacific, and is part of the Global Practice Leadership Team. He was nominated as a BCG Fellow in 2016 to explore innovation emerging from digital technologies in Asia. Abheek has coauthored the books “The $10 Trillion Prize” (published by Harvard Business Review Press) and “Shaping India’s Future”. He has written several reports on the Indian economy across sectors and is a frequent contributor to national /international publications and a speaker at leading business conferences and seminars.

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