Ravi Gupta

A postgraduate of IIT Bombay and a former IPS officer, Ravi Gupta quit the IPS to take over as managing director of National Film Development Corporation. He produced films with India’s leading filmmakers including Satyajit Ray, Shyam Benegal, Aparna Sen among many others and supported new talent in their debut feature films including Mira Nair, Sumitra Bhave, Sudhir Mishra, Vinod Chopra and others. He is a writer, entrepreneur, educationist and is currently dean and director of Whistling Woods International. He was the managing editor of Cinema in India. He has been on the boards of international media companies and trade bodies including SCOPE, FIAPF, iEMMY, CILECT. He is a linguist and speaks eight languages including Spanish, French and German.