Mr. K Ravi Kanth

Member

EDUCATION:
Short course in Distance Teaching for Developing countries, 1990	Name of University : University of London, DICE Discipline: Institute of Education
Master of Arts (Mass Communication ) 1986	Name of University : Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi
Master of Arts (Social Work) 1983	Name of the University: Loyola University, Chennai Discipline: Social Work Academic Achievement:
Bachelor of Arts (Botany) 1981	Name of the University: DG Vaishnav College, Chennai Discipline: B.Sc. (Botony)

 

WORK EXPERIENCE:

• Has served as Director (I/c), EMPC from 22^nd  December 2008 to July, 2013, Oct., 2015 to Jan. 2017 and 15th July 2018 to till date.
• Has been serving IGNOU as Joint Director (Production) at EMPC since 1997. Over all Coordination of production of curriculum based programmes, Event coverages, Gyan Darshan telecast & Gyan Vani broadcasts etc.
• Founding CEO of SAPNET (Mana TV), Govt. of Andhra Pradesh, 2003.
• Set up systems and oversaw the transmissions of 3 KU Band TV Channels of Mana TV network.
• Served as the founding Programme Officer at CEMCA of COL 1995-1997 Conceptualized and published the first three issues of Newsletters of CEMCA, 'Educom Asia' . Conducted a series of training programmes and workshops in broadcast media and internet applications for different target groups in association with IIMC, New Delhi, NCST, Mumbai, EMPC-IGNOU, Osmania University etc.
• Conducted meetings with TV and broadcast organizations, apex Cable TV operators for the delivery of educational programmes.
• Served as Producer and In-charge of AVPRC at BRAOU during January, 1987 – December, 1997.

INTERNATIONAL ASSIGNMENTS:

• Was on Steering Committee for the ET 2000 Seminar cum Exhibition organized by COL at Singapore 1996.
• Visited Sri Lanka, for UNESCO consultancy assignment for Department of Education, Govt. of Sri Lanka.
• Took part in the bidding process for Phase-III of IGNOU, JICA Grant-in-aid Project, Tokyo, Japan.

MEMBERSHIP OF PROFESSIONAL BODY/ STATUTORY BODY (INTERNAL/ EXTERNAL):

Membership of Professional body/ Statutory body	Name of statutory body/ institution/	Period
Member, Planning Board	Uttarakhand Open University
Member, DPC for promotion of Producer-I	CEC
Deputed to attend Expert Committee Meeting for Establishment of Educational Media Centre	NAAC, Bangaluru
Member, Swayam Prabha Channels Committee	IGNOU
Member, ACSC	IGNOU
Member, Academic Council	IGNOU ( 17/01/2019)	Two years
Chairperson, Advisory Committee for Community Radio Station	EMPC (06/2/2019)	One year
Member Secretary, EMPC Advisory Committee	EMPC (24/09/2019)	Three years
Member, Research Council	IGNOU