Hrridaysh Deshpande

Vice Chancellor, Ajeenkya DY Patil University

Hrridaysh has been in the field of education for over 27 years. Presently, he is the Vice Chancellor of Ajeenkya DY Patil University, and a Director at Ajeenkya DY Patil Group and Grand Port Hospital. In the past, he has been associated with the India Design Council (IDC) as its consultant advisor and has served on the CII National Committee on Design.

Hrridaysh is passionately committed to innovation, design and education, proficiency in business innovation strategy, and design driven Innovation. Hrridaysh has been on many international design juries, has several innovation and design related publications to his name. He has assisted leading companies across a range of industries.

Hrridaysh is an experienced, enthusiastic, and energetic educator and innovation facilitator. He is passionately committed to innovation, design and education and is capable of expanding the limits of traditional thinking through the development and realisation of aggressive and ambitious projects