Professor Dr. Sudha Dhingra is the Dean at the National Institute of Fashion Technology, New Delhi. She has been teaching for the past three decades at NIFT. Her core competence lies in the study of crafts, Indian and World textiles. She has co-authored the books for Fashion Studies on ‘Understanding Textiles’ and ‘Traditional Indian Textiles’ for CBSE, class XIth & XII th. She has also co-edited the book ‘Textile Crafts of India’ covering the handloom traditions of North-Eastern Indian States. 

She is also the Director of the Centre of Excellence for Khadi, which is a sponsored project by the Ministry of MSME to support KVIC. The center has been set up at NIFT, with the objective to assist the Khadi Institutions to design, produce and market high quality differentiated Khadi products for the Indian and global markets.