India Executive Bios

Sudhir NayarDr. Jaijit Bhattacharya
Country Director - Government Strategy, Sun Microsystems India
Adjunct Faculty, Indian Institute of Technology
Center for e-Governance
Vice President, Institute of Open Technology and Applications,
Government of West Bengal

Jaijit Bhattacharya is Country Director, Government Strategy at Sun Microsystems, Adjunct Faculty at IIT Delhi and Vice President of Institute of Open Technology and Applications (IOTA), Government of West Bengal. He is responsible for the creation of the next generation of solutions for governments, based on open standards.

Dr. Bhattacharya advises governments on e-governance strategies. He is an e-Governance advisor to Government of Sri Lanka and has been conducting training for ADB institute in Tokyo on Public Expenditure Management and has helped World Bank develop curriculum for their e-Leadership program. He is also a visiting faculty at INSEAD Singapore campus, IIT Roorkee and at IIM Calcutta.

Dr. Bhattacharya has developed business models and strategies for leading companies in the IT, media and computer hardware industries. He has numerous research papers to his credit in leading journals and conferences. He is the author/co-author of three books on e-Governance including the first book on e-Governance in India, ‘Government On-line – Opportunities and Challenges’, published by McGraw Hill and released by the Honourable President of India, Shri Abdul Kalam. Dr. Bhattacharya did his PhD from Department of Computer Science and Engineering IIT Delhi, MBA from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta and B.,Tech in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He also speaks Bahasa Indonesia.

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