Dr Abha Rishi, CEO, Atal Incubation Centre-BIMTECH is also the Chairperson for the Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Development (CIED) at Birla Institute of Management Technology; a senior faculty. She has 25 years of experience- in industry and academics. She is a PhD, an EEC Honors from STVP, Stanford University, PGDIBO, MFT and MIB. She was a CRISP 2014 (Chevening Rolls Royce Programme) scholar at Said Business School, University of Oxford and a Fulbright Research Fellow from India at Rutgers University, Newark, USA for 2009-10. She was the Programme Director from BIMTECH for UP and Orissa for the Goldman Sachs ISB BIMTECH 10000 Women global project. She has published and presented papers in various domestic and international forums and was also selected as one of the semi- finalists in the GDN Japanese Award for Outstanding Research in Development Work in 2011. She has traveled extensively across 21 countries in 5 continents, as part of her work and research. She has been conferred the Entrepreneurship Education Champion’s Award from the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship (MSDE), along with NEN, EDII, the British Council and Intel in 2015. She has received the Accenture I&D Award on March 8, 2017, for her work with the underprivileged sections of society. This award was given to only 5 other people from across the country. Dr Abha Rishi was also conferred the ‘NEN Entrepreneurship Educator of the Decade’ award in February 2018. She was felicitated for her contribution in developing ecosystem for entrepreneurs by DIPP, Government of India, in March, 2019 and has also been awarded as the winner in the academic category by the Sandvik India Gender Awards (SIGA) in August 2019.
