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Fr. Francis Manavalan CMI. Fr. Francis is a Carmelite priest. His native place is Manjapra in Ernakulam district of Kerala. A trained management professional specialised in social business and ethical marketing. Fr. Francis went to St. Mary's LP school and St.Mary's UP school, Manjapra for early stage of education, then completed high school studies at MAHS Thuravoor, Ankamaly. He is a former student of Sree Sankara College, Kalady to complete Pre Degree studies in science group. He joined in the CMI congregation as an aspirant in the year 1997 at Rajagiri, Kalamassery and became a priest in 2012 January. He pursued BTech and MBA before joining at Rajagiri Business School as assistant professor in 2014. Fr. Francis is the founder coordinator of first edition of Prolife 9.9 k marathon 2010, Bangalore and 2014, Vellore. Fr. Francis attended ESP course at Lille, France and FDP at IIM Ahmedabad. He has been a visiting faculty at various universities like Padova University, Italy, WMU, USA, Ingolstadt, Germany, Vives University, Belgium, NCKU, Taiwan and Yongsan University, South Korea.