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| Jagat Shah His philosophy of life : Action @ Speed of thought​ |
Foreign representative of Government of Manitoba, Canada in India
Founder & Chief Mentor :
- Cluster Pulse – an economic development agency
- Global Network – an international trade advisory firm
- Global Network Institute – an international trade training school
- Vice President – United States – India Importers Council ( USIIC )
- Secretary General – China India Trade & Investment Centre ( CITIC )
Jagat Shah studied for MBA (International trade) graduating from Delhi University & is a certified cluster development practitioner, trained & certified by UNIDO / ILO at Turin, Italy. He has additionally graduated in Diamond technology from Indian Diamond Institute (IDI), Surat. He is a certified management consultant (CMC) from ICMCI, USA.
In last 23 years of his career, he has worked on international market & investment strategies with Indian, Canadian, American, European & Chinese companies & governments. Through his ISO certified economic development agency, he has worked with cluster development approach on poverty alleviation and Small & Medium Enterprise (SME) competitiveness with several governments & private sector in 20 countries - India, USA, Canada, China, Brazil, South Africa, Senegal, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Sweden, Finland, Germany, Serbia, Croatia, Italy, UAE, Oman, RAK, Brunei, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia besides several states in India. He contributes to these efforts from his head office at Ahmedabad in Gujarat.
He is the Foreign representative of Government of Manitoba, Canada in India for trade & investment since last seven years.
Since last 18 years, he runs Global Network : www.globalnetworkindia.com , an international trade advisory firm having led 114 trade & investment delegations from India to abroad for pre-fixed P2P & B2B meets. His company consults Corporates & SME’s on international market strategy & approach. He has also hosted 34 delegations from abroad to India for trade & investment mat making with government, public & private sector companies. Also works as advisor for setting up industrial parks & SEZ’s.
Since last 16 years he runs Global Network Institute : www.gninstitute.com , an international trade training school, having conducted 125 batches of international market access course attended by 3600+ students & conducted 400+ international market seminars in India & abroad.
Since last 11 years, his ISO certified, not-for-profit, professionally run, economic development agency Cluster Pulse: www.clusterpulse.org has worked in 102 clusters in 20 countries – both, developed & developing ones besides India. Cluster Pulse has executed cluster development projects for USAID, German GIZ, World Bank, IFC, UNIDO, British DFID, The European Union, The Commonwealth Secretariat, ILO, Microsoft, Nokia, Govt of Canada, Govt. of Oman, Govt. Of Brunei, Govt. of Italy, Govt of Senegal several ministries of Govt. of India & State Govt. of India. He was the team leader of Govt. of India team to design the National ICT policy for SME’s.
The most challenging project of his lifetime has been in Afghanistan where he worked with 20,000 carpet weavers, 6,000 dry fruit farmers & 2,000 handicraft artisans to not only take them out of poverty but to make them into exporters with warehouses & offices in USA, Germany & India. He strongly believes that if change can be brought about in Afghanistan, then it can be brought about in any country in the world.
He is presently working on 7 start ups :
1. Technology transfer from India to Senegal.
India Senegal Overseas : www.indiasenegaloverseas.com
2. Gujarat Expat Club : www.gujaratexpatclub.org
3. 60 Plus life : www.60pluslife.org
4. Direct internet video interaction between companies wanting to start / increase exports & international trade experts : www.exportfundas.com
5. Technology transfer company : www.global-gujarat.com
6. Global Network TV : www.global-network.tv
7. German Indian Business Centre : www.gibc-hannover.org
8. He is the Director of Innovation Warehouse at Indus Innovation Centre at Indus University in India : www.indusuniversity.in
9. He is secretary general of China India trade & investment centre : www.citic.in
10. He is the Vice President of US- India Importers Council ( USIIC ) : www.usiic.in
11. His company Global Network is the co organizer of Vibrant Kutch 2015 : www.vibrantkutch.in
His 300+ articles have been published in world press on international trade & Cluster development initiatives.
He shares his experiences with students of management in 20+ countries.
He is managing trustee of 2 charitable trusts.
He is a Rotarian.
His email ID : jagat@globaljagat.com
His hand phone : +91-98255 06441
www.linkedin.com/in/clusterpulse
His place of Karma : 1001, 10th. Floor, Safal Prelude, Prahladnagar, Ahmedabad Gujarat – 380015 INDIA
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| Bahadurgarh | Mr. Bahety |
| Bengaluru | Mr. Anirudh Deshpande, Ms. Vanitha Narayan |
| Belgaum | Mr. Vinayak Lokur |
| Bhubaneshwar | Mr. Harshvardhan Lal and Mr. Jubanashwa Mishra |
| Calicut | Mr. Kailash Vora |
| Chandigarh, Jalandhar and Ludhiana | Mr. Ahsanul Haq |
| Chennai | Mr. Ashok Jaini & CA Mr. Vinodh Kothari |
| Coimbatore | Mr. Anthony Alphonse |
| Dehradun | Mr. Pankaj Gupta |
| Gangtok | Ms. Jashoda Chettri |
| Jaipur | Mr. Chintan Baxi |
| Jamshedpur | Ms. Smitaben Parikh |
| Kanpur | Mr. Ambuj Agarwal |
| Kochi | Mr. Ranjit Sampath |
| Kohima | Mr. Jamir Alemtemshi |
| Kolkata | Mr. Arijit Bhattacharya |
| Madurai | Mr. R Sivarajah |
| Mangalore | Mr. Nigam B. Vasani |
| Mumbai, Navi Mumbai & Solapur | Ms. Ami Sheth |
| Mysore | Ms. Vanitha Narayan, Mr. Muthu Kumar |
| Nellore | Mr. M N Rao |
| New Delhi | Mr. Sandeep Nagpal |
| Noida | Dr. Harivansh haturvedi |
| Panaji | Mr. Amey |
| Patna | Mr. Naresh Nandan |
| Pune, Ahmednagar & Kolhapur | Mr. Vishal Methi |
| Rayalaseema, Andhra Pradesh | Venkat Mantri |
| Shantipur | Dr. Saumen Mapdar |
| Surat | Mr. Devkishan Mangani |
| Thane | Dr. Akshay Parmar |
| Tirupur | CA Mr. Ramanathan |
| Vapi | Mr. Sandeep Agarwal |
| Varanasi | Mr. Ajay Kumar Rai |
| Vijayawada | Mr. Ragupathy Veeraswamy |
| Vizag | Mr. Ragupathy Veeraswamy |