JS INSTITUTE OF DESIGN - Key Persons


Amardeep Behl

Job Titles:
  • Founder & MD, Design Habit
His 33 years experience led him to develop a new language of design that converts spaces into narrative spaces. Amardeep has been a mentor for a number of designers and architects.

Anjali Goel

Job Titles:
  • Member of the JSID Advisory Board
  • CEO, La Sorogeeka
She is CEO, La Sorogeeka. Fashion designer by qualification, she moved into designing homes, resorts and corporates, despite no formal training in interior design. Over the last 20 years. Goel has been designing premises, manufacturing high-end designer furniture and handling key projects of high-end homes, offices and hotels. La Sorogeeka now has Asia's biggest flagship interiors and design facility in Noida.

Ar Akshat Bhatt

Job Titles:
  • Member of the JSID Advisory Board
  • Principal Ar, Architecture Discipline
He has established Architecture Discipline in 2007 - a multidisciplinary design studio innovating formal arrangements, engineering, M.E.P. services and building physics parameters to advance sustainable design principles visible in the expression of the projects. He has worked with Penoyre & Prasad and Jeff Kahane & Associates in London. He is an accomplished photographer and a gifted musician, interests that contribute to his architectural endeavors. He studied at The University of East London under Peter Salter & Michelle Roelofsma.

Ar Madhav Raman

Job Titles:
  • Member of the JSID Advisory Board
  • Founder, Anagram Architects
He is an architect and urbanist. He founded Anagram Architects, an architectural practice, with Vaibhav Dimri, which garnered international acclaim including Aga Khan Award nomination and inclusion in the Wallpaper Magazine's "Architects Directory". Raman also serves on the Area Advisory Board, Amity University. He moderates the annual Design X Design roundtable building discourse around Indian design across disciplines. He writes for the Architectural Digest and TOI and has been published.

Ar. Sarabjit Singh

Job Titles:
  • Founder, Fabinteriors
He is Principal Designer at Fabinteriors; who has rendered services for several top-notch and prestigious projects in India and abroad. With over four decades of experience, Sarbjit enjoys an excellent reputation among the hotel fraternity for his contributions in interior designing. His formidable reputation is matched only by the prompt and efficient delivery of his projects. Many major hotels and hospitality projects bear testimony to his creativity.

DR. PRAMATH RAJ SINHA - Chairman, Founder

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Founder
With over 20 years experience in higher education, Dr. Pramath Raj Sinha, a former McKinsey partner, was the founding dean of ISB. He also helped build Ashoka University, YIF and Vedica Scholars Programme, Anant Fellowship and Naropa Fellowship. He is a Senior Counselor with the Albright Stonebridge Group. Before founding 9.9 Group - a leading company in India with interest in media, research reports, advisory services and education., he was the MD & CEO of ABP Group.

Govind Shrikhande

Job Titles:
  • Shoppers Stop
He is Chairman, Crossword Bookstores Ltd. and Managing Director & Executive Director, Shoppers Stop Ltd. Mr. Shrikhande was previously Vice President-Retail Division at Bombay Dyeing & Manufacturing Co. Ltd. He received his undergraduate degree from Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute and an MBA from Symbiosis International University.

Jaskaran Singh

Job Titles:
  • Design Director, Fab Interiors
He is the design director at Fabinteriors and has worked on a variety of projects including Welcome Hotel - The Savoy (Mussoorie), Pathways School (Noida) and Lemon Tree (Gurugram). He graduated from the prestigious School of Planning and Architecture in Delhi. He has fine understanding of aesthetical and technical aspects of a building has been the key factor for successfully delivering well designed and well engineered buildings.

Kohelika Kohli

Job Titles:
  • Member of the JSID Advisory Board
  • CEO & Creative Director, K2India
She is CEO and Creative Director of K2India. She is a Trustee of the Museum of Women in the Arts, India. She returned to India in October 2004, after her graduation, and started her own architectural practice, ‘Kohelika Kohli Architects'. Kohli graduated in 2004 as an Architect, from the Pratt Institute of Design, New York. She interned in England with Sir Norman Foster and also worked for Oliver Cope Architects.

Prof. Jatin Bhatt

Job Titles:
  • Pro - VC, Ambedkar University
His academic journey started in 1991 to set up the Accessory Design Department at NIFT. Bhatt was the Chair of the Department of Fashion & Lifestyle Accessories at NIFT and headed five centers.

V K Duggal

An IAS officer, Duggal was a member of NDMA. During his 47 years of service with the GoI, he was posted in the North East as an Army officer; District Magistrate in Mizoram; Secretary to the Lt. Governor of Delhi; Advisor to Governor of Punjab/Administrator U.T. Chandigarh; Municipal Commissioner of Delhi; Special Secretary in the Ministry of Environment & Forests; Secretary, Ministry of Water Resources, Department of Drinking Water Supply, and Union Home Secretary.