CURRENT ACADEMIC ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES

Venkat has joined Manipal law School as Professor of Practice-Law at their Bengaluru campus.

Venkat is an experienced techno-legal expert in the field of Construction for over 37 years out of which 30 years are in the international contracts in the GCC region. He has extensive experience in design, project management and contract administration of engineering and construction projects and has worked with leading consultants and international contractors. Venkat has a Masters’ degree in Construction Law (with distinction) besides being a Chartered Engineer, Chartered Quantity Surveyor, Cost Accountant (Fellow) and a Fellow member of Chartered Arbitrators, UK.

Besides his rich industry experience, Venkat also has extensive academic experience as an International trainer on various topics related to Construction Contracts administration, claims management and dispute resolution including arbitration. He has travelled extensively all over the Far East and Gulf countries and had conducted several workshops on Contracts management, FIDIC, dispute resolution and subcontract management. He been regularly invited to speak at international conferences and trade events and his papers have been published in leading construction and arbitration journals. Venkat is a tutor at Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, UAE Chapter and he has lectured at Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, Indian Institute of Management, Tiruchirappalli and British University in Dubai for Masters’ cohort in construction management and construction law.

Venkat has been empanelled as an arbitrator with Indian Council of Arbitration, Asian International Arbitration Centre and Dubai International Arbitration Centre and has good experience in construction arbitration. He also acts as an Expert Witness in construction arbitrations. Recently he was invited to act as an arbitrator (both presiding and co-arbitrator) in the Pre Moot held at Asian International Arbitration Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Venkat has co-founded a Contract life cycle management consultancy by name C Cubed Consultants, in the year 2015 with an aim to advise Clients, Contractors on various aspects of contractual matters and helps them to resolve their disputes in an amicable and practical way. He can be contacted on his email rama.venkat@manipal.edu or through his professional site www.rmvenkat.com

At MLS, Venkat would be developing various educational programs including a Master’s program in Construction law and Arbitration (LLM) besides various certificate, diploma and management development programs to upskill/empower the professionals to cater the needs of the growing construction and infrastructure sector worldwide.