Biography
Devdutt Pattanaik did his schooling at OLPS, Chembur, intermediate at RN Ruia, Matunga, graduation in medicine at Grant Medical College Mumbai.
He spent 14 years working in the Pharma and Healthcare industries working with companies such as SIRO (Clinical Medicine Executive), GoodhealthNyou.com (Site in charge) Apollo Hospitals, Sanofi Aventis (as Content Manager, Knowledge Manager and finally Marketing Manager) and finally Ernst & Young as Manager in Business Advisory services.
But his passion has always been mythology and he has been writing and lecturing extensively on relevance of sacred stories, symbols and rituals in modern times. And it is in this capacity that he has joined Future Group as Chief Belief Officer where the belief is that to do business in India one has to think Indian.
He regularly consults World Gold Council, Star TV and Nestle India on cultural and leadership issues.
His column appear in Corporate Dossier ( Economic Times), First City Magazine (New Delhi), Sunday Midday (Mumbai), Mint, Hindustan Times and Times of India.
His books have been published by Penguin India, EastWest Publications, Jaico, VFS, Haworth, Inner Traditions and Indus Source, . A list of all his books, listed in order of publication, is here.
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