Professor Jaishri Jethwaney did her Doctorate from the School of International Studies, JNU in Media and Elections, which included extensive fieldwork in India, Germany and USA. She did her Masters in Political Science from the Hindu College, Delhi University; PGD in Advertising & Public Relations and PGD in Journalism from RP Institute of Mass Communication, New Delhi. She went to New South Wales for her Fellowship in PR. After a long stint at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication spanning over 25 years as Professor & Program until 2016 when she demitted office, she joined the Institute for Studies in Industrial Development (ISID) a public funded, national level policy think tank, working on media policy issues. Currently she is a Senior ICSSR Research Fellow, based at ISID. The area of her present research is on wages and related issues in the news media industry in India.
Prof. Jethwaney has been a lead communication expert for many international consultancies taken on behalf of UNESCO, UNICEF, UNFPA, World Health Organization, USAID among others. She is on the board of studies of several central and state universities. In her long career, she has designed and anchored more than 150 training programmes of various durations in the areas of corporate communication, advertising, social marketing, disaster communication, corporate social responsibility, among others . She has been a visiting faculty to many coveted organizations, including the National Judicial academy, Bhopal and the LBS National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie, Ordinance Staff College, Nagpur, Power Management Institute, among others. Among the many books, she has authored and co-authored, some of which include When India Votes (Rupa, 2019) Social Sector Communication (Sage, 2016), Corporate Communication (SAGE, 2018) Public Relations Management, 3rd ed. (Sterling, 2015), Advertising Management, 2nd ed. (OUP, 2012). She has contributed to the Sage Encyclopaedia on Corporate Reputation in 2016 and has chapters in many books. Among the many awards that Jaishri Jethwaney has received, some of which include, the Exceptional Woman of Excellence by Women Economic Forum, 2019; Sahyog- Sahyadari (Doordarshan) award on leadership in mass communication teaching, 2014; Best Professor award by World Education Congress, 2013 and the Leadership award in PR academics from the PRSI- 2010. Detailed CV at http://isid.org.in (jjethwaney@isid.org.in).
