A former IPS officer, Ravi Gupta quit the IPS to take over as managing director of
National Film Development Corporation. He produced films with India’s leading
filmmakers including Satyajit Ray, Shyam Benegal, Aparna Sen among many others
and supported new talent in their debut feature films including Mira Nair,
Sumitra Bhave, Sudhir Mishra, Vinod Chopra. He is a writer, entrepreneur, educationist
and is currently dean and director of Whistling Woods International. He was the
managing editor of Cinema in India. He is a linguist and speaks eight languages
including Spanish, French and German.