Deepti Ganapathy

Deepti Ganapathy is faculty in the area of Management Communication. After working as a print, broadcast and digital journalist for close to a decade with leading Indian media organizations, she chose to make the transition as an academic, teaching at IIM Indore and School of Business Management- NMIMS. She holds a PhD from the Department of Communication and Journalism, University of Mysore.

Deepti is a Rotary Group Study Exchange Fellow, CNN Young Journalist finalist, Creative Writing awardee by Royal Commonwealth Society, London and is recognized by the International Journalists’ Network as ‘Journalist of the Month’. In the summer of 2019, Deepti was appointed as Visiting Scholar in the Department of Communication, University of California San Diego, on the invitation of Distinguished Professor Daniel C. Hallin.

Currently pursuing a multidisciplinary interest in media and communication, Deepti is engaged with scholars in UK, USA and Europe to explore the use of media for strategic political and corporate communication, climate change communication, news coverage of human trafficking, health communication and digital activism. She has presented her research at several international conferences such as US Government’s East West Centre International Media Conference, Media and Politics: Discourses, Cultures, and Practices held at University of Milan, IAMCR 2016, 2018 and 2019 organized by University of Leicester, University of Oregon and Universidad Complutense de Madrid respectively and at International Communication Association-Asia Regional Conference 2017. As a member of the International Association for Media and Communication Research, she is actively involved in honorary service for this UNESCO-founded organization.

In management education, she has used her industry experience to design and develop courses and webinars that address key communications issues in the Business world- revolving around change, uncertainty, re-organization and crisis. She consults with leading firms as well as not-for-profits and startups and partners with industry practitioners to write cases and journal articles.

Her research has been published in leading academic journals, namely Academy of Management Learning and Education, Journalism and her forthcoming books will be published by Routledge and University of Michigan Press.

Deepti also comments on education, communication strategies, climate change communication and political communication for venues such as The Times of India, Deccan Herald, IJNET and Economic Times. Deepti is the co-founder of INDEEP- a social enterprise that empowers rural children and teachers by introducing them to creative learning practices.

Research Interests:

• Political Communication, Health Communication, Climate Change Communication, Organisational Communication, Digital Media for Government Communication.