Yashavantha DongreYashavantha Dongre is a professor of commerce and the director of the Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Board at the University of Mysore, Mysore, India. He holds masters and doctoral degrees from the University of Mysore and was formerly dean of aculty of Commerce and acting vice chancellor at the same university. Dr. Dongre has worked as Visiting Overseas Researcher at Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Osaka, Japan and as Japan Foundation Fellow at the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.

Dr. Dongre founded and served as coordinator of the Third Sector Research Centre at the University of Mysore, which focuses on research and extension activities in the fields of non-profits, cooperatives, and social enterprises. He served as consultant to the High-Power Committee on Cooperatives set up by Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India, the recommendations of which paved the way for constitutional amendments related to cooperatives.

Dr. Dongre has published over 50 journal articles and book chapters, most of which are related to cooperatives. He has been part of the editorial team of 5 books – all but one of which are on cooperative movement.

As part of extension activity, he serves as Co-Secretary of the ICA Asia Pacific Committee on Cooperatives in Educational Institutions Read More Read Less