Rao Chelikani (India), Ph.D., class of 1997 |
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Dr Chelikani was President of the Standing Committee of NGOs affiliated to UNESCO and already held a doctorate from the Sorbonne University when he began studying towards his Ph.D. at AGSIRD. |
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After returning from Paris where he had spent many years, Rao Chelikani started an International Foundation for Human Development () in Hyderabad, India. IFHD is an organization that strives to activate civil society for self-management thereby reducing excessive government and state involvement.
I aim to help my students prepare for life beyond "the groves of academe" - especially how to ask the right questions to work out what is really going on out there. Along the way, they practice writing lucidly and succinctly. It is stimulating teaching such a lively crew. I hope they also find it fun being challenged to analyse the facts without prejudice and to think originally