Dr. Deepti Ganapathy is a member of the faculty at IIM Bangalore and former Chairperson, Centre for Management Communication at IIM Bangalore. With 20 years of practitioner and academic experience, she is a thought leader in the space of climate communication, leadership and health communication.
An academic advisor to several universities and Government-led initiatives, she is a global speaker on climate action.
Her research has been published in leading academic journals such as The Lancet Planetary Health, Academy of Management Learning and Education, as well as in highly ranked Communication journals such as Journalism, International Journal of Strategic Communication. She has contributed book chapters in books edited by renowned scholars globally and published by Sage and Emerald on Social Media and Measurement and Computer-Mediated Communication.
She is the author of the bestselling book “Media and Climate Change: Making Sense of Press Narratives”, which explores the socioeconomic and cultural understanding of climate issues and the influence of environment communication via the news and the public response to it. This book is used as a prescribed reading material for her Open Programmes for Executive Education since 2023, and for her GNAM courses, as well as Elective for PGP, PGPEM and EPGP.
Her case studies published on the Harvard Business Publishing website are bestsellers, have been translated to Spanish for use in Business Schools in Spain, and she uses many of her co-authored case studies on sustainability in her courses.