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Vinod Gupta School of Management
Placement Brochure 2023-24
Faculty Profiles
Prof. Ajay Kumar Mishra
Prof. Chandra Sekhar Mishra Ph.D. (Finance)
M.Com, Ph.D. Finance & Accounting
Finance and Accounting Prof. Ajay Kumar Mishra has more than seven
Dr. Chandra Sekhar Mishra has an M.Com and years of teaching and research experience in
Ph.D. in Commerce from Utkal University. He finance. He received his Ph.D. degree in Finance
from IBS Hyderabad in 2014. He was a visiting
pursued his doctoral work at the Institute of research fellow at the Fogelman College of
Public Enterprise, Hyderabad. Dr. Mishra is Business and Economics (FCBE) at the University
presently a faculty member at Vinod Gupta of Memphis, US, during 2011-2012. Before
School of Management, IIT Kharagpur. Dr. joining the Ph.D. program, he was a research
Mishra has 25 years of teaching and research fellow at Space Applications Centre (ISRO)
experience. Dr. Mishra's areas of interest in Ahmedabad, India. His areas of research
in teaching and research are Financial include Corporate Finance, Asset Pricing and
Reporting & Analysis, Business Valuation, Market Microstructure. He teaches Financial
Earnings Management, Accounting Fraud Management, Financial Institutions and Markets,
Analytics, and Mergers & Acquisitions. Prior Business Valuation, Portfolio Management and
to VGSOM, IIT Kharagpur, Dr. Mishra worked Market Microstructure.
at IMT Ghaziabad and ICFAI Business School,
Hyderabad.
Prof. Arun Kumar Misra
Ph.D. (IIT Bombay)
Finance & Accounting
Dr. Misra has received his M.Phil & Ph.D. from
Prof. Abhijeet Chandra the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai. He
Ph.D. has more than 20 years of industry and teaching
Finance & Accounting experience. He worked in a leading PSU Bank
in various areas of banking like Credit Planning,
Prof. Abhijeet Chandra has over a decade of Basel implementation, ALM, Capital Planning,
post-Ph.D. research and teaching experience Profit Planning, CRM and Market Risk etc. As a
in finance and accounting. He offers post- senior banker, he has completed the required
graduate and graduate-level courses in certifications related to Management Accounting,
Corporate Finance, Behavioral & Personal Foreign Exchange, Risk Management, Banking
Finance, Cost & Management Accounting, Laws and Banking IT services.
and Investment Management. Prof. Chandra's
research in behavioral corporate finance, After seven years of banking experience, Dr.
asset pricing, risk management, and decision- Misra joined IIT Kharagpur in 2008 as an
making under risk and uncertainty has Assistant Professor of Finance & Accounting
appeared in reputed national and international and was promoted to Associate Professor in
journals and business dailies. He serves on 2014. Dr. Misra offers core and elective subjects
the board of the Asia-Pacific Risk & Insurance like Corporate Finance, International Financial
Association. He has completed research Management, Financial Risk Management,
and consultancy projects commissioned by Options and Derivatives, Management of
National Stock Exchange, ICSSR, TCS, and Banks, Banking Analytics, Financial Risk
SRIC, IIT Kharagpur. Modeling etc.
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