Mr. Jatin Bhatt

Professor Jatin Bhatt, a 1977 graduate from NID, is an independent Design educator and practitioner with experience in design consultancy, entrepreneurship, and academic leadership. He has been founding Chair of Accessory Design Department NIFT and founding Dean of School of Design, Ambedkar University Delhi from where he superannuated in 2020 as Pro Vice Chancellor. He has designed consumer goods, machine tools, watches, packaging, engineering products and exhibitions. He has conceived and led initiatives in industry clusters of toys, jewellery, carpets, wool, footwear, leather goods and Handicrafts in capacity building, entrepreneurship, technology development, market strategies, design & product development, artisans’ rehabilitation and training.

He has been involved with CLRI Chennai, Pearl Academy, CDI Kashmir, NID, NIFT, SPA New Delhi, MIT Pune, Khyati School of Design Ahmedabad, IICD and IIGJ Jaipur, Department of Design & Innovation JMI University, Ecole Intuit Lab and IIDC IIT Delhi. He has been on the Academic Council of the JK Lakshmipat University Jaipur from 2019 to 2022. He is currently on the Board of Studies MIT Pune, Faculty Committee JMI, Boards of JS Institute of Design New Delhi, Dastkar as well as Governing Council of Sangraha VCD Foundation Lucknow.