Prof. Ramana has over 44 years of experience combining 15 years of industry experience filled with micro, macro and global assignments involved in rural development and 29 years of management teaching and research across a range of higher educational institutions in India and abroad.  His experience may be summed up in three distinct domains: the first, rural grassroot level institution building; creation and managing market linkages for rural producers organisations and building a basis for social transformation approaches; the second, developing basic skills and competencies in the art and craft of teaching and relating management studies to the practices and principles as they emerge; and thirdly, in creating frameworks and approaches for management processes based on field action – otherwise known as Action-Innovation-Research (AIR).