Kavil Ramachandran is a Clinical Professor and the Executive Director of the Thomas Schmidheiny Centre for Family Enterprise at the Indian School of Business. Professor Ramachandran received his PhD in Business Management from Cranfield University, UK, in 1986. For the next 15 years, he served as Professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. His areas of specialization are family entrepreneurship and strategic management. He has been a consultant to the World Bank, International Labour Organization, Swiss Development Agency, Department for International Development, UK, various state governments, and development banks in India.