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Faculty Profiles Ph.D. (IGIDR, Mumbai), MA (Eco) Ph.D. (IIT Kharagpur), Fellow (Institute of Engineers)
Prof. Barnali Nag
Prof. Rudra Prakash Pradhan
JNU, New Delhi
Economics and Strategy
Energy Economics and Policy, Production & Operations Management
Economics of Climate Change,
Development Economics and Policy Prof. Rudra P Pradhan has over a decade of teaching
Prof. Chandra Sekhar Mishra Prof. Ajay Kumar Mishra and research experience. His research interests include
Ph.D. (Utkal University) Ph.D. (Finance) Prof. Barnali Nag did her Ph.D. from IGIDR, Mumbai Infrastructure Finance, Foreign Direct Investments and
Finance & Accounting Finance & Accounting and her MA in Economics from JNU, New Delhi. She Econometric Modeling. Prof. Pradhan has published
was a Visiting Scholar at Wharton Business School, several research papers in various national and
Prof. C.S. Mishra has more than twenty years of Prof. Ajay Kumar Mishra has more than seven years of University of Pennsylvania, for Post Doctoral Research. international refereed journals.
experience in teaching. His areas of interest are Financial teaching and research experience in finance. He received She has worked in RIS, New Delhi, an advanced research
Reporting & Analysis, Accounting & Analytics, Business his Ph.D. degree in Finance from IBS Hyderabad in institute for actionable research under the Ministry of
Valuation and Mergers & Acquisitions. 2014. He was a visiting research fellow at the Fogelman External Affairs, Gol. Before joining IIT, she was a faculty
College of Business and Economics (FCBE) at the of Economics at IIM Kashipur. Her research interests are Prof. Sangeeta Sahney
University of Memphis, US, during 2011-2012. Before Energy Economics and Policy, Economics of Climate Ph.D. (IIT Delhi)
joining the Ph.D. program, he was a research fellow at Change, and Development Economics and Policy. Marketing, Organizational
Space Applications Centre (ISRO) in Ahmedabad, India. Behavior & Human Resources
Prof. Prabina Rajib His areas of research include Corporate Finance, Asset
Ph.D. (IIT Kharagpur) Pricing and Market Microstructure. He teaches Financial Prof. M. Vimala Rani Prof. Sangeeta Sahney was a faculty member at UP
Finance & Accounting Management, Financial Institutions and Markets, Ph.D. (IISc, Bangalore) Technical University and IIT Roorkee before joining
IIT Kharagpur. With a specialization in Marketing,
Prof. Prabina Rajib has more than two decades of Business Valuation, Portfolio Management and Market Operations Management Prof. Sahney also teaches Organizational Behavior
academic experience. Her teaching & research interests Microstructure. Prof. M. Vimala Rani obtained her Ph.D. in Operations and Human Resources Management. Prof. Sahney’s
include Financial Accounting, Corporate Finance, Management from the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), research interests include studies in Consumer Behavior,
Financial Markets, and Risk Management using Financial Bangalore. She has received a Gold medal and the Best Organizational Behavior and Quality Management in
& Commodity Derivatives. Prof. Rajib has authored two Ph.D. thesis award from the council of IISc. After her education. MHRD has seconded Prof. Sahney to teach
books: 1) Commodity Derivatives & Risk Management, Prof. Arun Kumar Misra Ph.D., she worked as IISc Research Associate for one at AIT, Bangkok, twice, in 2009 and 2016. Prof. Sahney
2) Stock, Exchanges, Investments & Derivatives: Straight Qualification: Ph.D. (IIT Bombay) year at the Department of Management Studies, IISc. has authored a book on Consumer Behavior published by
Answer to 250 Nagging Questions. Finance & Accounting She also worked as an Assistant Professor at Amrita Oxford University Press. She has written several papers
Prof. Rajib is also a Fulbright Fellow. Dr. Misra has received his MPhil & Ph.D. from the Indian School of Business, Bangalore. She teaches Production in peer-reviewed national and international journals.
Institute of Technology, Mumbai. He has more than 20 and Operation Management, Supply Chain Management,
years of industry and teaching experience. He worked Quantitative Techniques-1, Spreadsheet Modelling and
in a leading PSU Bank in various areas of banking like Programming for Business. Prof. Vimala’s research Prof. Sanjib Chowdhury
Credit Planning, Basel implementation, ALM, Capital interest is in developing mathematical and heuristic B.Tech.(Hons.), M.Tech. Ph.D. (IIT Kharagpur)
Prof. Abhijeet Chandra Planning, Profit Planning, CRM and Market Risk etc. algorithms for problems related to Industrial Engineering Strategic Management
and Management. Her research work has appeared in
Ph.D. As a senior banker, he has completed the required reputed national and international journals. One of her Operations Management
certifications related to Management Accounting,
Finance & Accounting Foreign Exchange, Risk Management, Banking Laws and research articles received a Highly Commended Paper Dr. Sanjib Chowdhury holds B. Tech., M. Tech., and Ph.
Prof. Abhijeet Chandra has over a decade of post- Banking IT services. award by Emerald, and another received the Best D. degrees in Industrial Engineering and Management,
Ph.D. research and teaching experience in finance and After seven years of banking experience, Dr. Misra joined Research Paper award. all from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. He
accounting. He offers postgraduate and graduate-level IIT Kharagpur in 2008 as an Assistant Professor of has 39 years of work experience, including 34 years in
courses in Corporate Finance, Behavioral & Personal Finance & Accounting and was promoted to Associate Prof. Sushil Punia two major oil companies in India and Kuwait in the cross-
Finance, Cost & Management Accounting, and Investment Professor in 2014. Dr. Misra offers core and elective functional areas of Strategic and Corporate Planning,
Management. Prof. Chandra’s research in behavioral subjects like Corporate Finance, International Financial Ph.D. Business Performance Improvement, Optimization of
corporate finance, asset pricing, risk management, Management, Financial Risk Management, Options and Operations Management and Business Analytics operations and processes, Project Management, HR and
and decision-making under risk and uncertainty has Derivatives, Management of Banks, Banking Analytics, Prof. Sushil Punia researches and teaches Operations General Management. He has been a full-time Visiting
appeared in reputed national and international journals Financial Risk Modeling etc. Management and Business Analytics at VGSoM, IIT Faculty at VGSoM, IIT Kharagpur, since Feb 2018. He
and business dailies. He serves on the board of the Asia- Kharagpur. He holds a Ph.D. in Management from IIT received the Kuwait Gulf Oil Company (KGOC) Ideal
Pacific Risk & Insurance Association. He has completed Delhi and an M.Tech in Industrial Engineering and Employee Award, ONGC Chairman’s Award, and ONGC
research and consultancy projects commissioned by Management from IIT Kanpur. His expertise includes Director’s Award.
National Stock Exchange, ICSSR, TCS, and SRIC, IIT operations and supply chain management, forecasting Based on his work experience, he has authored a book
Kharagpur. and predictive analytics, and data-driven optimization. titled Optimization and Business Improvement Studies
Prof. Sushil uses his expertise to design advanced in Upstream Oil and Gas Industry”, published by John
decision models and policy frameworks for resource Wiley & Sons Inc., New Jersey, USA, August 2016. He
allocation and services delivery in healthcare and has also published several technical papers in journals
urban logistics sectors. He has received several awards, of repute.
fellowships and research grants, including a postdoctoral
fellowship from the University of Cambridge (UK),
Springer Nature’s best paper award, MoUD research
fellowship, IIF-SAS research grant, etc.

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