User:Globaljagat

Hi, I am Jagat Shah. I am glad to be part of this wonderful journey of life !

I was born in the land of entrepreneurs & in the land of Mahatma Gandhi - Ahmedabad, Gujarat in India.

I spent my childhood in India in small towns & large cities like Shillong, Kolkata, Korba, New Delhi, Surat & Ahmedabad. I studied till 7th. grade in Korba & then in New Delhi in Sardar Patel Vidyalaya. I graduated as a Bachelor of Commerce ( Honours ) from Delhi University & completed Masters in Business Administrations (MBA) with specialisation in international trade.

I am a certified management consultant ( CMC ) from ICMCI, USA. I have been trained on Cluster development approach by UNIDO / ILO at Turin, Italy.

I started my career with Xerox then worked with Core group, Electrotherm. Thereafter, I worked in China & Indonesia. I returned back to India in 1996 & started my business of International trade consulting - Global Network : http://globalnetworkindia.com

I then built 2 more companies i.e. Global Network Institute : http://gninstitute.com & Cluster Pulse : http://clusterpulse.org.

I have been appointed as the Trade & investment commissioner of Manitoba trade & investment ( MTI ), Govt. of Manitoba, Canada in India since last three years.

I spend my time with Indo Canadian Business Chamber : http://icbc.org.in & India China Economic & Cultural Council ( ICEC ) : http://icec-council.org as the Chairman of Gujarat.

I also devote my time in 3 new start ups :

1. E readiness Centre ( ERC ) for SME’s in India : http://smilesforsme.com & http://facebook.com/Ereadinesscentre4SMEs

2. Indian cluster observatory : http://newageclustering.com/

3. Connecting Innovation to markets : http://innovation2markets.com

As a hobby, I am the advisory Editor for SME World magazine : http://smeworld.org

I am the Convenor of Kailash Mansarovar Cultural Park being built at Mansarovar.