Nawal Prabhakar (be.1950) is Senior Partner and Financial Advisor in the reputed concern of management and industrial consultants, Prabhakar and Banker, with offices in Mumbai, Gurgaon and Singapore. He has a post-graduate degree in Industrial Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai and a professional qualification in Industrial Management from the University of Bristol, UK. He is also an Associate Member of the Brussels- based L`Ecole de la Administration. He has over twenty years of corporate exposure and has specialized in industrial rehabilitation and turn-around strategies, in addition to Human Resource Development. He as over two dozen papers to his credit. His standing in Asian management circles was established with his 1989 book, Emergent Technologies and Indian Industrial Sector: An Overview and Optimisation Roadmap.