Mohan Gopinath

Dr. Mohan Gopinath holds a BA (Hons.) degree and a Master’s degree in English Literature from St. Stephen’s College – Delhi University, where he later joined as a member of the faculty. In between, he joined the Indian Police Service which he quit after one week. After the two year stint in the college, Dr. Gopinath joined the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, and worked as a senior level banker for almost 21 years in India, UK and Hong Kong, after initially completing a two year training attachment in the London branch of the bank. Subsequently he left the industry, and worked for a doctoral degree which he obtained from Osmania University on the topic, Organizational Learning (in the banking industry). His career in HSBC also included an attachment to the all India HR function. After obtaining his doctoral degree, Dr. Gopinath worked as a management consultant in India and the Middle East. Dr.Gopinath has also worked as a lead consultant for a World Bank funded Institutional Development Study conducted for the Andhra Pradesh Forest Department. Dr. Gopinath reverted to academia after working as a consultant for more than one decade. He later joined Alliance University’s Schoolof Business, Bangalore, where he worked as a Professor in the Department of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource till September 2019.