Self-Regulation with Accreditation
4th Olin Oedekoven International Accreditation Leadership Award 2025 Goes to Prof Joe Philip, Founder Chairman of XIME, Bangalore
As a Part of our 18th International Accreditation Conference 2025 we had invited nominations for the 4th Olin Oedekoven International Accreditation Leadership award. But Pof Philip's name was almost unanimously chosen.
Dr Olin Oedekoven Award for International Accreditation Leadership Award was instituted to recognize an Indian or International Accreditation Champion, who should have worked towards getting one or more International Accreditation recognitions at their campus or one who had displayed consistently his or her passion to bring in Global Benchmarks of Quality in Business Education with one or more International Accreditation system.
Pof Philip has six decades in propagating quality in business education and his own organisation XIME which he founded has been designed with his philosophy of excellence in everything
The International Accreditation Champions Award 2025 is being held for display for Shikha Taunk, the Award receipient
Jelani Mohammed receives the award at the hands of Dr Rishikesha Krishnan IIM Bangalore, to his left and Dr Easwar Krishna Aiyar, Director of IBA and Dr Madhavi Lokhande, Director of Welingkar Intitute Bangalore at the 18th International Accreditation Conference
The citation for Joe Philip is being accepted on his behalf by a senior colleague Prof. Madhukumar P. S, Associate Professor & Dean (QA) XIME Bangalore On his left is Dr Rishkesha Krishnan, former Director of IIM B and to his right is Dr Manish Jain, Chairman IBA Bangalore. The award was presented at the inaugural Ceremony of 18th International Accreditation Conference
The Award has been instituted in gratitude to the memory of late Dr Olin Orton Oedekoven, founder president of two decade old Peregrine Global Services (PGS) from Gillette Wyoming, The company has a footprint in over 40 countries worldwide . PGS is one of the pioneers in Business Schools Assessment & Leadership development and has been an Academic Partner to SEAA Trust, New Delhi for over a decade.
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The candidate should have helped raise awareness about international accreditation within the campus or outside.
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The candidate should have participated in the full accreditation process of any of the top rated accreditations of the world.
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Any other related credentials, such as trained evaluator, mentor, paper publisher or book author on quality benchmarking and accreditation.
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It would be an advantage if the candidate had undergone multiple site visits or mentored any school for any international accreditation agency of choice.
Announcing Ist International Accreditation support Champions Award 2025
We have also instituted a new award to celebrate the non-faculty administrative leaders contributing to International Accreditation Support which is more a norm than an exception in much of the western world! In India the practice was not widely prevalent leading to greater stress in faculty groups.
We chose two such champions who in most part volunteered to take up accreditaiton related work based on pure passion " I took up accreditation related work besides s my administrative responsibilities but it was worth it. "My career growth itself shows how useful this work was" says Mr Jelani Mohamed currently Registrar and Controller of Examinations at Goa Institute of Management. He has sukpported all the institutions he worked in the past to bag International Accreditation recognition from AACSB, AMBA, BGA, ACBSP and also tremendous traction while dealing with media ranking.
Shikha Taunk, the India representative of AMBA-BGA, almost single handedly managed accreditation, ranking ad other quality building aspects. besides taking up training and development functions in her previous job at XLRI Jamshedpur, something she feels that has been her foundational introduction to independent peer reviewed accreditation systems of the world.
Being a non-teaching leader within the system the balancing of both accreditation support and usual administrative duties were tough but working against constant deadlines and explore to the global accreditation systems great helped she feels.
After literally passing through the fire she is herself now part of the International Accreditation scheme of things representing BGA and AMBA for India. SEAA Trust, wishes to congratulate Shikha Taunk for receiving International Accreditation support Champions Award 2025.
Ms Shikha Taunk , Strategic engagement manager
of the International Accreditation Agency, AMBA-BGA
3rd International Accreditation Leadership Award presented
​The 3rd Olin Orton Oedekoven International Accreditation Leadership Award was presented to (Late) Dr V Panduranga Rao for his half a century long service to the cause of International Accreditations in India.
Dr Rao had led one of the largest teams in the history of AACSB way back in 2007 and worked hard spread idea of Benchmarking with the best in Class from around the world for excellence in Business Education. His efforts at the ICFAI School of Business (IBS) Hyderabad culminated in AACSB accreditation being awarded in the year 2020 to the school. Dr Rao had been a strong supporter of SEAA Trust's intense campaign for International Accreditation in India.
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The second award was not presented to anyone owing to lack of suitable nomination!
The first Recipient of the Award is Dr N R Parasuraman, the soft-spoken Finance Professor and Director of SDMIMD Mysore. a top Ranked B-school of India
Dr N R Parasuraman the erstwhile Director and Senior Professor at SDM Institute for Management Development, Mysore. He is a Fellow member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India and the Institute of Cost and Management Accountants, and a Commerce and Law graduate. His Ph.D was on Capital Structure of Indian Companies. He has 37 years of experience in diverse areas of finance. His special areas of teaching and research are Strategy, Financial Derivatives, Multinational Finance and Corporate Valuation.
Olin O Oedekoven (December 12, 1959 - October 04, 2022)
A retired Brigadier General the (Late) Dr. Olin O Oedekoven Founder and CEO Peregrine Global Services, one of largest education services companies of the world having footprint in over 50 countries worldwide. Peregrine Global is an academic partner to SEAA for over a decade. He learned and practiced leadership over a 33-year military career with the U.S. Army, the Army Reserves, and the Wyoming National Guard. He completed several advanced programs on leadership, human resource management, international affairs, conflict management, and diplomacy during that span, which helped forge his leadership path. For nearly 20 years, Dr. Oedekoven has used his extensive knowledge gained through his military career and formal education to develop values-based leaders and impact the quality of education worldwide.