Ramesh Bhat

Experience

• President, Indian Health Economics and Policy Association (IHEPA)
• Chairperson: Public-Private Mix RNTCP National Technical Working Group, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Government of India (2015 – till date)
• Alumnus of Harvard University and University of Delhi having more than 30 years of professional and academic experience. Life member of Harvard Club of India. PhD from Delhi School of Economics, and Research Fellow in International Health from Harvard School of Public Health.
• Worked as Professor for 25 years at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
• Taught and researched health financing, heath management and corporate finance for 30 years at IIM Ahmedabad, University of North Carolina at Chapel-Hill USA, IIM Udaipur, IMI New Delhi, School of Business Management NMIMS, Institute of Chartered Accounts of India, Shri Ram College of Commerce.
• Worked on a number of projects in India and abroad in area of health care financing, private health care sector, valuation issues, activity based costing, financial and management information control systems, and private equity. Experience includes consulting, research and management development programs for a wide variety of sectors including healthcare, manufacturing, infrastructure, services and logistics.
• Currently on the Board of Corporation Bank, and Basic Health Services. Held Board Member positions at ITI Limited (2012-2015), BEML (2011-2014), Ahmedabad Stock Exchange (1994-96) and India Renal Foundation (2005-07). Member, Governing Board, National Institute of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, New Delhi. (1999- 2003).
• Advisor to the Ministry of Human Resource and Development, New Delhi (2010-12)
• Worked globally with bilateral and multilateral organizations and also served on several government committees on health care financing, public-private partnerships and health policy of Planning Commission and Ministry for Health and Family Welfare.
• Worked as Professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad since 1986-2009 and 2014-2016 . Held the position of Dean at the School of Business Management, NMIMS University, Mumbai one of the premier private universities in India offering management education. Prior to joining IIM Ahmedabad, worked as Assistant Director at the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, New Delhi and was faculty member at Shri Ram College of Commerce, New Delhi. Held Adjunct Professor position at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to teach in programme conducted in collaboration with IIHMR Jaipur. Worked as full-time Consultant and Adviser to the Department for International Development, India, and the Royal Netherlands Embassy, New Delhi. Was conferred the best teacher in management award by Deccan Herald in 2008.
• Third edition of Cases in Financial Management has been published in 2012 by McGraw Hill Education India (co-authored with I.M. Pandey).
• International consulting assignments include work on health sector development in Vietnam, Ghana and South Africa. Lead the IIM Ahmedabad faculty team to offer management development programmes in Egypt during 2005-07
• Has been on the editorial boards of Health Policy and Planning, Journal of Insurance and Risk Management, Journal of Health and Population in Developing Countries, Journal of Health Management.
• In 2009 took up a full-time position as an executive chairman of WOne Management. During last five years we worked with government, non-government and private sector organization in India and abroad. After working for five years where I was engaged with leading professionals from national and international organizations working on health finance and health systems, joined back IIM Ahmedabad.
• Lead Member Finance of Core Design Team for National Aids Control Programme (NACP IV) Plan Preparation 2012-17 of the Ministry of Health and Welfare, Government of India. The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs on 3 October 2013 approved Rs 8632.77 crore for implementation of the National AIDS Control Programme Phase IV by the health ministry's department for AIDS Control.
• As part of this work participated in development of a mathematical model for “Survival of people living with HIV/AIDS and requirement for 1st- and 2nd-line ART” which was published in Notices American Mathematical Society. Also worked as core team member to develop NACP III programme implementation plan.
• Recently developed a dynamic model to assess the impact of wastages on vaccine delivery and supply chain in India. The model was used for impact assessment of vaccine wastages and simulating various scenarios of changes in variables affecting the vaccine delivery in India. The changes considered were those initiated through policy changes, introduction of new technology or process improvements.
• Lead author of a monograph on Public-private Partnerships in Health Sector published by the World Health Organisation, Geneva in 2007.
• My work with the Government (both at the Centre and the State level) involved working on several committees and task force focusing on financial assessment, system development and sector reform issues, policy formulation, institutional issues and developing implementation strategies.
• Lead Member (Finance), National AIDS Control Programme Phase IV and III, Government of India
• Member Sub-committee on Health Care Financing Options for National Rural Health Mission
• Member of Technical Advisory Committee on Health Financing and Health Economics of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India
• Member of Sub-committee on Health Financing and Management of the Planning Commission, Government of India
• Evaluation of NIMHANS, sponsored by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India.
• Involved in formulating the Mental Healthcare Policy and coordinating several stakeholders workshops and meeting for DoHFW, Government of Gujarat
• Advisor to the Task Force constituted by the Department of Health and Family Welfare, Government of West Bengal.
• Coordinated the Health Policy Development Network (HELPONET) in India (1992-97)
• Temporary Advisor to WHO on number of occasions (areas include: macro-economy and health, public-private partnerships, regulation of private healthcare sector)
• Member of EC Mission team to evaluate EC support to primary care and family welfare sector development programme in India

Qualifications

• Takemi Fellow in International Health 1990-91 Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, USA
• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. D.) 1988 Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi
• Master of Philosophy (M. Phil.) 1984 Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi (Grade "A" major in Finance)
• Master of Commerce (M. Com.) 1979 Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, Delhi (Grade "A" major in Finance)
• Short-term Course in Computer Programming 1978 Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (Grade “Good”)
• B. Com. (Hons.) 1977 Hans Raj College, University of Delhi (Division "First" major in Accounting and Finance)

Awards

• Chairman Conference on Risk Management and Corporate Insurance organized by Confederation of India Industries (CII), Gujarat, 8 September 2007
• Member of Editorial Board Health Policy and Planning (1999-2003)
• Journal of Insurance and Risk Management
• Journal of Health and Population in Developing Countries and
• Journal of Health Management
• Guest Editor - Special Issue on Health Care Financing, The Journal of Health Management, Indian Institute of Health Management and Research, Jaipur, India.
• Temporary Advisor to World Health Organisation on several occasions
• Actively involved in developing the health financing options in Gujarat. Explored options of insurance and voucher schemes. Extensive background work done for the ongoing Chiranjeevi Yojana in Gujarat.
• Lead Member of Mental Health Mission, Government of Gujarat. The Mission prepared a strategic document for mental health sector development in Gujarat and was involved in formulating the Mental Healthcare Policy.
• Advisor to the Task Force constituted by the Department of Health and Family Welfare, Government of West Bengal.