Professor Trilochan Sastry teaches at IIM Bangalore and was a former Dean there. He obtained his B.Tech. from IIT Delhi, MBA from IIM Ahmedabad, and Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He taught for several years at IIM Ahmedabad, and also at ISB Hyderabad. He has held Visiting Positions at MIT, International University of Japan and Hong Kong Institute of Science and Technology. He has established a few successful ventures. One group of them are farmer producer organizations (FPOs) with over 40,000 members. Another is a food company called Farmveda. He also founded two NGOs namely, the Centre for Collective Development and the Association for Democratic Reforms.
He was a Member of the Board, IIM Bangalore from 2006 to 2011. He is also on the board of some publicly listed companies and was earlier on the Board of NABARD. He has received several Awards including the Best Young Teacher award for 1999 from the Association of Indian Management Schools (AIMS), “Outstanding Contribution to National Development” Award from IIT Delhi in 2005, Distinguished Alumnus Award, IIT Delhi, 2012, “Young Global Leader”, 2008 by the World Economic Awards for Public Service from NDTV, CNN-IBN and TOI.