Prof. Atul Gokhale is an accomplished hospitality and culinary education specialist with 35 years of experience in India and abroad in the field of teaching, administration, and hospitality industry. 

He is the founding Director of Symbiosis School of Culinary Arts, a premier Culinary and Hospitality School at Symbiosis International University, Pune India. He recently completed 20 years in the field of hospitality, culinary and tourism education.

An alumnus of IHM Bhubaneshwar, he started his career as Chef with ITDC (The Ashok Group of hotels) based out of New Delhi. He specializes in Italian and Indian cuisine. He has a MBA in Management and is currently pursuing his Doctoral study with Symbiosis International University in the field of Culinary Education on “Developing a maturity model for Culinary Arts Education in India”. 

He is on the board of the Education Certification Advisory Council (ECAC) of the American Hotel and Lodging Educational Institute (AHLEI), Orlando, USA and also a master trainer for Certified Hospitality Educator (CHE) programme. He is member of board of studies at Pune University and also on the board of Mumbai University for Hotel Management education. 

He was a member of core team which designed the NSQF for Hospitality Industry in Bahrain. He presented a paper on “localization of workforce in Hotel and Tourism Industry in Saudi Arabia” at the GCC Nationalization Summit in 2011 held at Dubai. He has done research work in the areas of Vedic and Regional Indian Cuisine, Food History, Recipe Research, Food Flavors and Textures Development.

As an Entrepreneur he has done project consultancies for hotels and restaurants and owned and operated “Pinch of Salt” a corporate catering & consultancy service firm. 

He is a Member (MIH) of Institute of Hospitality (IoH, UK) since July 2005 and Member Faculty of American Hotel and Lodging Educational Institute, Orlando, USA, since 2006.

He is a member of Toastmasters International and is a certified Competent Communicator and Competent Leader. Among other things, he is also a certified Life Coach.

Memberships: 

1. Member, India, Educational Certification Advisory Council

2. NRA- AHLEI, USA], [Member, Academic Council, SIU

3. BOS Member, Hospitality Studies, SPPU- Pune University

4. Member, Board of Studies, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences (FoMHS) 

5. Associate Member at IoH, UK, PHA, Pune, and NRAI, Pune

Research Profiles: 

1. Google Scholar

2. ORCID]  

3. ResearcherID

4. Vidwan

5.  PhD Scholar at Symbiosis and Net Qualified