Dr. Akash Khurana is a Mechanical Engineer from NIT Rourkela with an MBA in Marketing from XLRI, and an M.Phil and Ph.D in HR from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences. He was an executive with Tata Motors before he moved on to a parallel vocation in Media and Entertainment. His other corporate roles include HR Advisor, Chief Creative Officer, and CEO. He is the author of book MENTORMORPHOSIS: Stories for Mentoring the Leader in You.
He has been a student mentor and guest faculty at several B-schools, teaching subjects like Creativity and Innovation, Organizational Behaviour, Business Environment, Conflict Management, and Business Communication.
He has written over 20 screenplays, including Baazigar, for which he received the Filmfare Award. He has acted in nearly 80 films and serials and has won the Nandi Award of Andhra Pradesh for playing the lead in the Telugu film Dr. Ambedkar. The River of Love, a feature film directed by him, has garnered a host of international awards. In the theatre, he has been a core member of some of India's foremost theatre companies. His production of Vijay Tendulkar's A Friend's Story, was performed at the Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London.
