Dr Patil is Professor and Director at DSBS, Bangalore. He has spent considerable time in economic research having policy implications through various sponsored research projects funded by national and international agencies such as IDPAD Netherlands, Ford Foundation, Asian Development Bank, Govt. of India, Various Ministries of State governments and local bodies. The Institutes he was associated with include Centre for Multi-Disciplinary Development Research (CMDR) Dharwad and Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bangalore as researcher. During his teaching career he served at various capacities including Professor and Director of reputed B-Schools and Director-Research. He has conducted several workshops, conferences and professional enrichment programmes for working executives both in private and public sectors. To his credit he has several research papers published in reputed peer reviewed journals both at national and international level (UGC-Care, Scopus, ABDC and Web of Science). He is also member of the editorial boards of ‘International Journal of Research in Management, Social Sciences and Technology’ and ‘Asia Pacific Journal of Management and Entrepreneurship Research’. He has delivered several invited lectures at various colleges, universities and institutes in topics such as Personality Development, Leadership skills, The Art of Writing Research Papers etc to name few. He is Visiting Professor at Mzumbe University, Tanzania. He is a proud alumnus of IIM-Ahmedabad.
