Dr. Madhukar Shukla is Professor of Strategic Management & Organisational Behaviour at XLRI Jamshedpur (India), and has keen research and teaching interest in the development sector and social entrepreneurship. 

He was the Founding Member of the Advisory Council of University Network for Social Entrepreneurship (founded by Ashoka: Innovators for the Public and Skoll Center for Social Entrepreneurship, University of Oxford), and has served as an assessor for the Echoing Green Fellowship Competition, a global competition to identify social entrepreneurs, and as the jury for the oikos Case Competition on Social Entrepreneurship. He is also the author of the book 'Social Entrepreneurship in India: Quarter Idealism and a Pound of Pragmatism' (Sage Publication, 2020).

Madhukar holds a Master's degree in Psychology from Lucknow University and is a Ph.D from IIT, Kanpur. Prior to Joining XLRI in 1990, he worked with the National Productivity Council and Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad during 1980-90. He was also a visiting faculty to ESADE, Barcelona during 1993-94.