The Textile Institute, Manchester, UK has conferred Darlie Koshy with the prestigious Holden Medal for Education. It’s a bi-annual award and Koshy is the second Indian to win this prestigious award.
Koshy is the founding head of Fashion Management at NIFT, New Delhi (1987-2000) and was at the helm of NID, Ahmedabad as the Director (and governing council member) for almost a decade from 2000 to 2009. He rewrote the fortunes of Indian design and created the National Design Policy in 2007. He also authored a path breaking tome named ‘Indian Design Edge’ which has been acclaimed by critics and readers alike.
At present he is the DG & CEO of Apparel Training & Design Centre (ATDC) that has over 200 centres around India and IAM with its campus in Gurgaon having trained over 2, 00,000 candidates under ISDS since 2010 and over 50,000 candidates in other programmes. He has been the ideator of the ‘Smart’ brand that ATDC had launched in October 2010 and initiator of the TOT Academies apart from the inspiring the “Imparting Skills, Improving Lives” slogan.
A visionary educator par excellence, he is a doctorate from IIT Delhi in Management. He undertook specialized training at FIT, New York in International Fashion Marketing and has received UNDP research grant for conducting research in nine importing centres in the USA Europe and Japan which led to the publication of successful book ‘Effecting export marketing of Apparel to the USA, UK & Japan’.
