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Prof. Rudra Prakash Pradhan
Ph.D. (IIT Kharagpur), Fellow (Institute of Engineers) Economics and Strategy
Production & Operations Management
Prof. Rudra P Pradhan has more than a decade of teaching and research
experience. His research interests include Infrastructure Finance, Foreign Direct
Investments and Econometric Modeling. Prof. Pradhan has published several
research papers in various national and international refereed journals.

Prof. Saini Das
FPM (IIM Lucknow) Business Analytics & Information System
Prof. Saini Das has served as a faculty member at IIM Indore for three years
before joining IIT Kharagpur. She also worked as a software engineer at
Infosys Technologies Ltd. prior to her Ph.D. Her major teaching interests and
competencies are in the areas of Business Analytics, Information Security Risk
Management in networks, Management Information Systems (MIS), e-commerce
technology & applications, data privacy and digital piracy. Prof. Das has taught in
many management development programs across industries. She has authored
papers in many national and international journals of repute.

Prof. Sangeeta Sahney
Ph.D. (IIT Delhi) Marketing, Organizational Behavior & Human Resources
Prof. Sangeeta Sahney has served as a faculty member at U.P. Technical University
and IIT Roorkee, before joining IIT Kharagpur. With a specialization in Marketing,
Prof. Sahney also teaches Organizational Behavior and Human Resources
Management. Prof. Sahney’s research interests include studies in Consumer
Behavior, Organizational Behavior and Quality Management in education. Prof.
Sahney has been seconded by MHRD to teach at AIT, Bangkok twice, in 2009
and 2016. Prof. Sahney has authored a book on Consumer Behavior published
by Oxford University Press. Prof. Sahney has authored several papers in peer-
reviewed national and international journals.

Prof. Sanjib Chowdhury
Ph.D. (IIT Kharagpur) Production & Operations Management, and Economics
and Strategy
Dr. Sanjib Chowdhury is currently a full-time Visiting Professor at VGSoM,
IIT Kharagpur in the areas of 1. Strategic Management, and 2. Operations
Management. He has 40+ years of work experience including 6+ years in
academics and 34 years in two major oil companies in India and Kuwait in
the cross-functional areas of: Strategic and Corporate Planning, Business
Performance Improvement, Optimization of operations and processes, Project
Management, and HR and General Management. He is the recipient of “Kuwait
Gulf Oil Company’s Ideal Employee Award”, “ONGC Chairman’s Award”, “ONGC
Director’s Award” to mention a few, and had held several responsible positions
in these organizations. Based on his work experience, he has solely authored a
book titled “Optimization and Business Improvement studies in Upstream Oil and Gas Industry”, published by
John Wiley & Sons Inc., New Jersey, USA, Aug 2016. He holds B. Tech. (Hons.), M. Tech., and Ph. D. degrees
in Industrial Engineering and Management from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and published
several technical papers in journals of repute.

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