Conference Chair

Prof.(Dr.) Parameswar Nayak

Dean, Birla School of Management, Birla Global University, Bhubaneswar, India.

Prof. Nayak is an ardent Professor in Human Resource Management, an academic administrator, a

corporate trainer, a management consultant, and a professional social worker.

He has about 30 years of work experience in teaching (in India and overseas), academic administration, training,

research and consultancy, including about 19 years in Leadership Positions such as Director and Dean in the

leading B-Schools such as BIMTECH, Bhubaneswar, Amity University, Noida, KIIT University, ITS Institute of

Management, Greater Noida, besides his services at Delhi University, XIMB and BCT-IIHMR, Jaipur. He is a trained

trainer with training received from IIMs, XIMB, IIPA, ISHA and IIHMR. He has conducted over 300 training and

MDPs for executives of more than 25 public and private companies(NTPC,NSPCL,NLC,NHPC,JSPL,JPL,IFFCO,NBCC,

RSP(SAIL),Reserve Bank of India, THDC, PowerGrid, GAIL, SJVN, SMS India, FCIL,HZL, Prashar Bharati, ROTI,UCO

Bank, Allahabad Bank, NEM Engineering Projects Pvt. Ltd, UNICEF, and the Indian Red Cross). He has been invited

by a number of Universities and institutes of repute in India, Slovenia, Poland,Tanzania, Nepal, USA, UK and

OMAN as Visiting Professor, Resource Person and Keynote speaker at international conferences. He has

completed 23 consultancy research assignments sponsored by DFID (Govt. of U.K.), USAID, KFW (Germany),

Interact Worldwide, London, CRS, UNDP, Govt. of India, NRHM etc. He has worked for Adam Smith Institute as

Project Director- Social Safety Net Programme under DFID funded Public Sector Reform Programme of the Govt.

of Odisha. He has been an International Research Guide for 4 international interns under UNICEF-KCCI Internship

Program in 2009.

He has received National HR Excellence Award in the category–Best Management Education Leadership

Award(2018) from National Institute of Personnel Management( 2018), ‘Elvina’- the Luke Award of Delhi

University(1989), Chhatra Gourav Samman award from FM College (2019) besides doctoral fellowship from ICSSR,

and UGC’s Junior Research Fellowship with NET qualification He was awarded at the Said Business School, Oxford

University, UK for his best research paper presentation at the International Conference in the year 2018. His

publications include two books and several research papers besides his doctoral guidance. He is a Life member of

professional bodies like ISTD, ISTE, SSAI. He is a member of Knowledge Committee of PHD Chamber of Commerce,

New Delhi and a member of Executive Committee (Academic Council) of NHRDN, Bhubaneswar Chapter and the

ISTD’s Testing & Certification Committee. He has been invited as assessor of HR best practices in companies for

the award of national level professional bodies such as NIPM. He has been invited as expert panelist in

International, National and Regional TV channels such as Bloomberg TV, NDTV, Door Darshan and News World

Odia TV. Dr. Nayak is an alumnus of Delhi University. He is a post graduate and Ph.D. in Personnel Management

and Industrial Relations. He has been instrumental in setting up of two rural hospitals, one each in Rajasthan and

Odisha. He is also an active Rotarian.

Conference Co-Chair

Prof. (Dr.) Monika Kalin Golob

Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, Europe

Prof. Golob is Professor of Linguistics and Stylistics. She is working Dean, Faculty of Social

Sciences at University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, Europe. Her teaching and research interest is

inLanguage Culture, Stylistics of Journalism and Advertising, Language Planning and Language

Policy. Between 2006—2011 and 2015—2017 she was a Vice-Dean for Students and Study Affairs on Faculty of

Social Sciences. From 2017 she is the Dean of Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana.

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Inaugural Session

Dr. D. K. Hota CMD, BEML Limited, Bangalore, India.

Dr. Hota is an Economics Graduate from St. Stephens College, New Delhi with a

Masters Degree in Personnel Management & Industrial Relations from XLRI,

Jamshedpur. He started his professional journey in HPCL, where in a career

spanning 30 years, he rose to become the CEO of HPCL Bio-Fuels.

He joined BEML Board of Directors in 2013 and spearheaded various transformational HR initiatives

such as building the leadership pipeline and creating a competency framework and a customized

HR management system.

Dr Hota with his rich experience in HR & business operations rose to the position of CMD of BEML,

in 2016. As CMD, he took defining steps enabling BEML to gain crucial edge in the intensely

competitive business environment and take the company’s order book position to over Rs 10,000

crores.

His astute business acumen has catapulted BEML to the top position in supplying metro coaches in

the country against stiff competition from world’s leading metro manufacturers. His untiring efforts

has resulted in the company achieving the highest ever sales last year.

Dr. Hota, during his illustrious career has won several accolades and awards such as NHRD Award

for Most Seasoned HR Professional of the year, Most successful HR & CEO by NIPM, XLRI

Distinguished Alumnus Award (Practicing Manager), CEO with HR Orientation Award by World HRD

Congress, FORE-TOP RANKERS Exemplary Leadership Award, Top Challengers Award at

Construction World Global Awards and Outstanding Contribution to PSE Award by ICC. He was

recently conferred with The Machinist “Hall of Fame’ award for outstanding contribution to Indian

Manufacturing Industry.

He was also bestowed with the Honorary Degree of PhD by Manav Rachna Educational Institutions

(MREI) acknowledging his invaluable contribution to the Indian industry.

Prof. (Dr.) Jo-ann Rolle Dean, School of Business, Medgar Evers College, The City University of New York.

Dr. Jo-Ann Rolle is the Dean of the School of Business at Medgar Evers College.

Dean Rolle has extensive executive leadership experience in higher education,

corporate and federal government operations. In 2015 she was awarded

recognition by the Network Journal as one of the 25 influential African American women in

Business. Dean Rolle’s background includes working in multiple Federal agencies, academic

institutions, IBM, and consulting. In academic institutions she has been responsible for academic

leadership, academic programs, and student affairs. She has launched multiple undergraduate

and graduate degree programs. She has taught courses in economics and entrepreneurship. Her

skill set includes higher education administration; developing and leveraging strategic

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partnerships; innovation creation; small business development; disadvantaged business

development; and staff development.

At Medgar Evers College, under the leadership and support of President Rudy Crew, and

Provost Augustine Okereke, Dean Rolle launched the Entrepreneurship & Experiential learning

lab (EEL) in the fall of 2015. Since the EEL launch, Medgar Evers College teams have studied

entrepreneurship in ten countries; published in excess of 10 papers; initiated six international

agreements and in 2016 coached the first woman to win the CUNY-wide SmartPitch

competition. Dean Rolle is sought after internationally as a keynote speaker on

entrepreneurship and economic development.

Prof. (Dr.) H. Chaturvedi

Director, BIMTECH, Greater Noida, India.

Dr. H. Chaturvedi is Professor and Director at Birla Institute of Management

Technology, Greater Noida, India. He has more than 42 years of experience in

teaching, research and academic administration. He has been Director at All India

Council for Technical Education (AICTE), a statutory body under MHRD,

Government of India. Being a renowned management educationist, he has been deeply involved

with national bodies like AIMA, NHRDN, AIMS and the Indian Management Conclave (IMC),

organized by the MBA Universe.com. Dr Chaturvedi is a Member of Board of Governors, Indian

Institute of Tourism & Travel Management (IITTM), Gwalior (under the Ministry of Tourism,

Government of India, Special Invitee Member, Board of Governor, United Nations Global Compact

Network India, New Delhi, Member, Advisory Board, Asia Pacific Centre for CSR Sustainability,

UNGCNI, New Delhi, Member, Board of Governor, Birla Global University, Bhubaneswar, Member,

Board of Management, Birla Global University, Bhubaneswar.

Dr. Chaturvedi is the Trustee and the Executive President of the Education Promotion Society for

India (EPSI), Academic Council Member, Manav Rachna University, Faridabad and also the Founder

President of the Alumni Association of Agra University (AAAU), BIMTECH Foundation and

Ranganathan Society for Social Welfare and Library Development (RSSWLD), Uttar Pradesh. He is

also Main Trustee of the Atal Incubation Centre BIMTECH. Dr Chaturvedi has authored and edited

five books relating to various challenges before Indian Business and economy and his latest book is

titled “Quality, Accreditation, and Ranking – A Silent Revolution is in the Offing in Indian Higher

Education, Bloomsbury, 2019”.

Prof. (Dr.) Sudhakar Panda

Vice- Chancellor, Birla Global University, India.

Prof. Panda, the first Vice Chancellor of Birla Global University, He retired as the

Professor and Head, Department of Analytics and Applied Economics, Utkal

University , Bhubaneswar. He worked as a distinct faculty in IIT Kharagpur,

Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Guest faculty at Vinod Gupta

School of Management, IIT Kharagpur. He joined School of Law, KIIT University as a senior

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professor. He has also served as Director, Rourkela Institute of Management Studies. He has

worked as a Professor, National law University, Odisha. He has been the Chairman of State Finance

Commission, Government of Odisha, Expert Member, State Planning Board, Member, State

Farmers Commission. He was appointed a Member, State Council for Higher Education, Member,

State Audit Advisory Board, Member, State Level Eligibility Test (SLET), Maharashtra and West

Bengal. He was The Member of National Aids Control Organization, Member Senate, Fakir Mohan

University and Member, Rama Devi Women’s University, Odisha.

He has written six books out of which the Potato and the Pauper and Indian Economy in 2030 are

the most popular ones. He has a number of publications to his credit in both national and

international journals. He was felicitated by the Hon’ble Governor and Chancellor of universities of

Odisha for his contribution in teaching and research in the year 2012.

Prof. (Dr.) Aleksandra Kanjuo-Mrcela

Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, Europe.

Prof. Aleksandra, Professor of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of

Ljubljana, Slovenia. Her teaching and research is in Economic Sociology, Sociology

of Work and Gender Studies. She is head of Doctoral School of the University of

Ljubljana and a member of the Steering committee of the European University Association Council

of Doctoral Education. She is an editor of Social Politics, Oxford University Press.

Dr. Sarat Kumar Acharya

Former CMD, NLC India Ltd., India.

Presently Dr. Acharya is Advisor and National Professor for Birla Global University

(BGU) and also is an Independent Director on the Board of Bhubaneswar Smart

City Ltd. (BSCL). He is also an Independent External monitor for Shipping

Corporation of India Ltd. Dr. Acharya headed NLC India Limited (formerly Neyveli Lignite

Corporation) a Mining and Power Navratna PSU of Govt. of India as Chairman and Managing

Director from 01.10.2015 to 31.07.2018. During this period he also held the position of Chairman in

two more companies – NLC Tamilnadu Power Limited (NTPL) and Neyveli Uttar Pradesh Power

Limited (NUPPL) engaged in coal based thermal power generation/project construction.

He carries with him rich and varied experience of over 38 years of working in BHEL, NTPC, NTPC-

SAIL Power Company and NLCIL. Prior to assumption of charge as CMD, Shri Acharya served NLC as

Director (Human Resource) from 16.12.2010 to 30.09.2015. Dr. Acharya studied Economics and

graduated from Ravenshaw College in the year 1977 and he got his Masters in Personnel

Management and Labour Welfare from Utkal University, Vanivihar in the year 1979.

Dr. Acharya is one of the few inspirational corporate leaders, whose name finds place in the book

‘Most Powerful HR Professionals of India’ (4th Edition). He is a Fellow of NIPM and a lifetime

achievement awardee by Green Tech Foundation for promoting sustainable HR & CSR. In April

2016, he received the Scope Excellence Award from Hon’ble President of India. He has been

conferred Fellowship by World Academy of Productivity Sciences for his significant and long lasting

contributions to the improvement of productivity, quality of work life and quality of life. In

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recognition of his exceptional leadership skills and contribution to Nation’s progress, Dr. Acharya

has also been conferred with a Doctorate Degree by Sathyabama University, Tamilnadu and a

D.Litt. by Utkal University, Odisha and also the highest NIPM Ratna Award by National Institute of

Personal Management of India.

In the year 2018, Dr. Acharya was conferred with the ‘Seva Ratna Award’ jointly instituted by the

Mylai Thiruvalluvar Tamil Sangam, Nehru Yuvakendra, GoI, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan and Sri Sairam

Institutions, Chennai and also conferred with the Prestigious CSR Icon Award from APEX INDIA

FOUNDATION. Under his leadership, NLC India got the ‘Brand of the Decade Award’ by Herald

Global and BARC-Asia, the recognition of ‘Fastest Growing Navratna PSU in India’ by Hindustan

Times and PwC combine and also by Dun & Bradstreet in 2018.

Dr. Acharya is a Fellow of NIPM, co-chaired the National Mining Committee and PSE Council of CII,

India and also is on the Board of Governors for Institute of Public Enterprises, India. Widely

travelled and well trained in India and abroad, Dr. Acharya is a thought leader and achiever in

Corporate Business World. He is a Management guru and a visiting faculty to many premier

management institutes.

Prof.(Dr.) Shyam S. Lodha

Professor of Marketing, Southern Connecticut State University, USA.

Dr. Lodha is Professor of Marketing and International Business and chairman of the

Marketing Department at Southern Connecticut State University, USA. He had his

education in India and in the United States, and joined university teaching

profession in 1958. Before joining the Southern Connecticut State University in 1983,

Dr. Lodha was a professor of marketing at Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India. Since

1985, Dr. Lodha is Editor-in-chief of the ‘Business Journal’, a refereed publication of the School of

Business, Southern Connecticut State University and New England Business Administration

Association. He has also been editor of other two journals namely ‘ Asian Review’ and

‘Management Systems Review’. Dr. Lodha organized several executive development programs,

national and international conferences, workshops, seminars and symposiums on global topics in

USA and in other parts of the world. He has authored and edited several publications and articles

and research papers in the area of marketing and global business. He is a frequent speaker at

corporations, international /social organizations, management institutes and universities in USA

and other countries.

Prof.(Dr.) B.K. Das

Registrar, Birla Global University, Bhubaneswar, India

Dr Das, Registrar of the Birla global University, He holds Ph.D. in Economics and

LL.B. and Diploma in Business Management. He is also a Certified Associate of the

Indian Institute of Bankers. Dr Das is also a member of the Board of Governors of

the University.

Dr Das joined BIMTECH Greater Noida in 2009. Prior to that he was General Manager of leading

Public Sector Banks looking after General Administration, HR, Vigilance, Corporate Governance,

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Credit, Business Development, Strategic Planning, Policy Formulations, Resolution/Recovery of

Distressed Assets, etc. that involves all gamut of Banking, especially Corporate Loans, Project

Financing, Loan Syndication, Corporate Turnaround Restructuring, etc. He drafted the Vigilance

Manual of the Bank in close coordination with CVC. He Worked GM New Delhi for more than 4

years looking after the States of Delhi, UP, Uttaranchal, Jammu & Kashmir and a part of Haryana. As

GM OP, he was in charge of States of Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Kerala, Andhra Pradesh,

Odisha and a part of Maharashtra. Dr Das also worked with Prof Yunus, the Nobel laurate, in

Bangladesh Gramin Bank under a UNDP project.

He was associated with various decision making process at the Board Level and various Committees

of the Board. He was a member of the corporate level committees like Asset Liability Management

Committee, Risk Management Committee, New Business Committee, Top Management

Committee, Vigilance Advisory Committee, etc.

He Was a Director in the Board of West Bengal Industrial Development Corporation. He was also

associated with Industrial Finance Corporation of India (IFCI).He was the Chairman of State Level

Export Promotion Committee for Odisha and Himachal for 2 years. He was a member of the High

Powered Committee constituted by the Govt. of India for banking plan for the State of Jammu and

Kashmir.

He was appointed by the Govt. of India as Chairman of Regional Rural Bank for 3 years and also

headed the District Industries Centre of the Govt. of Odisha for 2 years planning and implementing

various Central and State programmes like Entrepreneur Dev Programmes, Integrated Rural

Development Programme, Prime Minister Rojgar Yojana and promotion of MSME.Dr Das presented

a paper ‘’Public Sector Banks-Business vrs Vigilance’’ in National Conference on SME and a paper

on Financial Inclusion in the Foundation Day Lecture series by the Dept. of Applied and Analytical

Economics, Utkal University.

Session-II: Thematic Presentations on Global Perspectives of Business Finance

Prof. R. D. Sharma Former Vice Chancellor, Jammu University, Jammu, India.

Prof. Sharma is the former Vice Chancellor, Jammu University, Jammu, India. He has

wide ranging rich experience of teaching, research and extension in business

education, and administrative experience at different levels. Dr. Sharma has also

worked as Vice Chancellor, University of Jammu October 30, 2014 – July 25, 2018.

During his tenure the University of Jammu got A+ NAAC Grade in 2016 and stood 64th in 2016, 63rd

in 2017and 51st in 2018 as per NIRF ranking, besides Category I University Page 2 of 41 in terms of

Graded Autonomy of UGC and thus got Rs. 100 crores for enhancing teaching and research. Besides

active participation in the academic deliberations at different occasions in India, Nepal, Srilanka,

Dubai, China, South Korea and Thailand, Dr. Sharma addressed the audience quite frequently in

different academic meets at several US universities and completed a research project entitled

“Marketing Effectiveness in American Consumer Banking” during his ten month stay as Visiting

Professor at University of Rhode Island, Kingston [USA] under Fulbright Fellowship Programme

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1992-1993 in Business Administration. He also visited a few Chinese Universities and Institutes of

Higher Learning in Management and Information Technology. He has completed two major

research projects funded by UGC and one funded by ICSSR. Prof. Sharma has been conferred as

Fellow of Indian Commerce Association.

He got 12 books (authored: 5 and edited: 7) and 122 papers published, with till dates total citations

of 740. Till-date 26 M. Phil.And 27 Ph. D. students have completed their research work under his

supervision and 02 more candidates are working at different stages of their research for Ph. D. in

Commerce.Dr. Sharma remained associated with several other universities and institutions of the

country like University of Delhi, BHU, M D University, Guru Nanak Dev University, Rajasthan

University, M S University of Baroda, NEHU, ICSSR, University of Kashmir, IGNOU, SMVDU, BGBU,

IUST, NAAC, Finance and Education Ministries of J&K State, J&K Public Service Commission, UGC,

AICTE etc. Dr. Sharma also remained associated with Vichar Kranti Munch International, an NGO for

the cause of moral and ethical values. Dr. Sharma has organized several academic meets,

workshops, seminars, extension lectures, conferences etc.

Prof.(Dr.) Banikanta Mishra Professor, Xavier Institute of Management, Xavier University, Bhubaneswar, India. Prof. Mishra has been a Professor of Finance at Xavier Institute of Management,

Bhubaneswar since 1991. He received MA in Economics from Delhi School of

Economics and PhD in Finance from Stern School of New York University. He has

taught in USA at New York University, University of Florida, Emory University, University of

Michigan, University of Texas at Dallas, and University of Houston and also at IIM-Calcutta in India,

WHU in Germany, NUS in Singapore, and University or Turin in Italy.

He has been a Director of BNP Paribas - Sundaram Asset Management Company, Grid Corporation

of Orissa, and Industrial Development Corporation of Orissa, a Consultant to New York Citibank,

USA Georgetown Consulting Group, and Government of Orissa, and an Advisor to National Stock

Exchange of India, Industrial Development Bank of India, and Bhubaneswar Stock Exchange.

He has presented papers in various conferences in India, USA, UK, Singapore, Malaysia, and

Australia and has published papers in top-rated journals like Journal of Finance and reputed

journals like Economic and Political Weekly. He has been in the Editorial-Board of International

Journal of Applied Management and Technology and ICFAI Journal of Applied Finance and a referee

for Journal of Business of University of Chicago and EPW. He has written occasionally in the

Economic Times. He has been a member of the Research Advisory Committee of Clearing

Corporation of India and the Academic Council of ICFAI. He has sometimes been invited to speak or

be interviewed on social issues, including by BBC on Power Sector Reform and by Eastern Michigan

University Business School for Martin Luther King, Junior, Day Lecture on Global Diversity.

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His teaching interests are in Corporate Finance, International Finance, Investment Banking, and

Derivatives, while his research interests are in Information Asymmetry, Market Efficiency, Financial

Instruments, Risk Measurement, Industrialization, and Economic Development.

Prof.(Dr.) Prof Ram Kumar Mishra Director, IPE, Hyderabad, India.

Prof Mishra, Senior Professor, Director and ONGC Subir Raha Chair Professor at

the Institute of Public Enterprise, is a graduate of International Management

Programme, SDA Bocconi, Milan, Italy. He has been a Fellow of British Council

and Commonwealth Secretariat. He has had research stints at London Business School and Maison

Des Sciences De L’ Hommes, Paris. He has taught at the University of Bradford, United Kingdom and

was a visiting Professor at Maison Des Sciences De L’ Hommes, Paris, University of Technology

Mara, Malaysia, Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He is a member of the UN

Task Force on Standards of Excellence in Public Administration and Education. He has been a

Management Consultant to several organizations including DFID, Deloitte, Adam Smith Institute,

ADB and Centre for Good Governance. He was associated with the UNDP project on Macro

Economics of Poverty Reduction carried out by RBI Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Banking

and Research.

He is on the Steering Committee of Network of Asia Pacific Schools and Institutes of Public

Administration and Governance supported by the Asian Development Bank. He has handled

assignments for the Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Power, Ministry of Trade and Commerce,

Ministry of Heavy Industry and Public Enterprises, and Ministry of Finance (Department of

Disinvestment). He was also a member of the working group on privatization set up by the

International Institute of Administrative Sciences, Belgium. He was been a researcher for Planning

Commission. Finance Commission, Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council, OECD, United

Nations University – World Institute for Economic Development Research, International Civil

Service Consortium, State Bureaus of Public Enterprises, Financial Institutions and Banks. He was on

the Boards of few Public and Private Sector Enterprises. Member, ‘Panel of Experts on Reforms in

Central Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs)’ set up by the Planning Commission, Govt. of India;

Member, Adhoc Task Force set up by the Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India to review the Results

Framework Documents (RFD) of the various ministries of the Govt. of India; Regional Vice

President, Executive Board, Association of Indian Management Schools (AIMS); Member, Ad hoc

Task Force on Memorandum of Understanding, Government of India; Member, Working Group on

Review of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) Guidelines of Central Public Sector

Enterprises (CPSEs), Government of India, etc. He is a member of Editorial Boardof many

international and national journals published. He has supervised Doctoral Research for several

Universities in Public Administration, Management, Economics, Commerce and has taught at the

National Management Programme, GoI-MDI, M.Phil.and M.B.A programmes for more than three

decades.His current interests include corporate social responsibility, corporate governance,

modernization of State, civil service systems and financial administration.

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Prof.(Dr.) Radhe S. Pradhan Former Professor, Tribhuvan University & Academic Director, Uniglobe College, Nepal

Dr. Pradhan is the former Professor of Tribhuvan University, Nepal and now

Academic Director at Uniglobe College, Nepal. He received his Master’s Degree in

Business Administration and Commerce in the First Division from the Tribhuvan

University, Nepal in 1975. He has done valuable research on working capital management for which

he was awarded the Ph. D. Degree of the University of Delhi, India in 1986. He has also completed a

one-year course under the Faculty Development Program at the Indian Institute of Management,

Ahmedabad, India in 1980. He has also served as Visiting Fulbright Faculty to the College of

Business, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA from August 1992 to January 1993.

He got an opportunity to visit University of Hongkong in July 1996, and then Rikkyo University,

Tokyo, Japan as a Research Scholar from September 2000 to January 2001.

He has about four and half dozens of finance articles to his credit published in different national

and international journals. He has also contributed technical papers to different seminars including

international seminars held in New Delhi, Kolkata, Bhubaneswar, Dhaka, Thimpu, Jacksonville, and

Tallahassee. He is also the author of (1) Industrialization in Nepal: A Macro and Micro Perspective,

(2) Public Corporations of Nepal: A Study of Financial Ratios, (3) Management of Working Capital,

(4) Financial Management Practices in Nepal, (5) Research in Nepalese Finance, (6) Financial

Management, and (7) Capital Structure Management.

He has delivered invited guest lectures at different national and international colleges and

universities including Post-Graduate Department of Commerce, Utkal University, India; university

of Warsaw, Poland, and at Crummer Graduate School of Business, Rollins College, Winter Park,

Orlando, USA.He also worked in about 3 dozens of projects funded by donor agencies as a finance

specialist.

Session-III: Thematic Presentations on Preparing Business Leaders for Tomorrow

Mr. Bijay Sahoo

Group President – Strategic HR, Chairman’s Office, Reliance Industries Ltd.,

Mumbai, India

Mr. Sahoo has over three decades of experience in leadership positions in

leading National and Global corporations. He specializes in the areas of Strategy

relating to Talent &Technologies, Human Resource Management, Leadership Development, Skills

Development and Employability. Mr. Sahoo is currently the Group President – Strategic HR

working with the Chairman, Mr. Mukesh Ambani for building the strong leadership capabilities for

all businesses of Reliance Industries such as Reliance Retail, Jio Infocomm, Payment Bank, Media,

New-commerce, Jio University. Prior to this role, Mr. Sahoo was the Global Head HR of Wipro

Technologies. He was also member on the Board of Wipro Spectramind (BPO Company). Earlier he

was the Principal Consultant in PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and Head HR of IDBI Bank.

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He was for over 5 years the Chairman of Conference Board’s HR Council in India and Chairman of

HR council of Retail Association of India. He is the Founder Chairman of RASCI i.e. Retail Skills

Council of India. He is the Chairman of FICCI Skills Development Forum (SDF) and is the Founder

Chairman of Skills Development committee of Indian Merchants’ Chamber.

He has served/ been serving on the Governing / Advisory Boards / Academic Councils of many

reputed Universities and Educational Institutions e.g. KIIT, Centurion University, Ramaiah Institute

of Management Studies, Lal Bahadur Shashtri Institute of Management, and J K Laxmipat University

etc. Mr. Sahoo has been a regular writer and speaker in various global forums in the areas of

Emerging Technologies, Talent, Economy, Education, Skills Development and Employability.

Prof. (Dr.) Jay K. Mitra

Former Professor & Dean, FMS, University of Delhi, India.

Prof. Mitra is the former Professor and Dean of Faculty of Management Studies of

Delhi University. He is also the Chairman of ISOL Research Foundation. He was

served as a Professor of Strategy and Organizational Behaviour at Faculty of

Management Studies (FMS), University of Delhi. Prof. Mitra is one of the most sought after

consultants in the area of Strategy, Trainer in the area of Team Development, and Scholar in the

area of Leadership and Post-acquisition management of Organization. He has been an active

researcher and scholar in redefining paradigm in various global organizations and loves

rejuvenating old institutions. Known for very innovative pedagogy and new approaches to

teaching-learning experience, Professor Mitra’s students are now leading academicians and

practitioners in distinguished global institutions.

Mr. Parthasarathi Mishra

Board Member, Amnaya Corporation, US,

Ex. CHRM, Tata Steel, Kalinganagar & Gopalpur , Odisha, India.

Mr. Mishra is currently working at the Board level of Amnaya Corporation US, a

company listed with the New York Stock Exchange. Till July 2019 Parthasarathi was

working as the CHRM with the Tata Steel Ltd for its Kalinganagar Steel, Gopalpur Project and

OMQ(Ore,Mines &Quary) division. He was instrumental in shaping the Kalinganagar Mega Steel

Plant of Tata Steel which was dedicated to the Nation in the year 2015 and is the Taj of Tata Steel.

In addition to Kalinganagar, he was assigned the CHRM role for creating Gopalpur as a SEZ hub in

Odisha by the management of Tatas and also operationalized the FMD plant which went for

commercial production in the year 2017.Mr. Mishra has done his Masters from Training Institute

for Productivity and Industrial Engineering, TIPIE, and Masters in Personnel Management and L.W.

He has also done LL.B with labour law specialization. He has to his credit more than two and half

decades of rich experience of working in Manufacturing, Engineering, Project and Consulting

companies in all the hard core Human Resources areas. He has undergone special training on

various HR and Industrial Engineering techniques from the APO, Tokyo and Toyota Production

Systems Consultants, Tokyo, Japan.

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Being a trainer and OD expert himself he has also undergone specialized training program from

Thames Valley University, U.K. Besides working with Indian corporate houses like RPG Group and

Essar Group, Mr. Mishra has also worked as the Global HR Head with Zamil Steel Global and

Director-HR with the Netherland based company Bateman. He also worked in other countries both

as an employee and consultant with various companies in Japan, Europe, South Africa, Saudi

Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt, Bahrain, UAE, Thailand, Ethiopia etc. and deeply studied the HR practices

prevalent in multinational and multi-cultural environment.

Prior to joining Tata Steel he was working as a Senior Vice President and heading the Corporate

Human Resources function of the Company –Pipavav Defense & Offshore Engineering Company

Ltd(Presently Reliance Defence and Engineering Co. Ltd.), the company which is the biggest ship

building company in India and second biggest in Asia. He was also a Director in the Board of Pipavav

Technical Services (P) Ltd and Pipavav Business Management (P) Ltd. Earlier to Pipavav, he was a

part of Senior HR Team with Essar Group based out from Eastern India and instrumental in

introducing and setting up the company in Odisha and other areas in the eastern India. He worked

with Essar Projects India Limited (an Essar group company) as its GM & Head-HR for its projects in

Eastern India. During his stay in Japan he has been given the best consultant award by the Toyota

Production Systems Consultants, Tokyo. He was the elected president of National HRD Network,

Bhubaneswar chapter for a period of 02 years i.e. 2016-18. He has been awarded as the most

influential HR leader in the country in the year 2017 by World HRD Congress.

He also received the award “Outstanding Contribution to HR Profession” in the Employer Branding

Awards in Kolkata during 2017. He also received the award “100 HR Innovators in India” by World

HRD Congress on 16th Feb.2018 in Mumbai.

Session –IV: Thematic Presentations on Global Trends in Management Education

Dr Igor Luksic Professor, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Dr. Lukšič is professor of political sciences at University of Ljubljana. He was

editor of Teorija in praksa (Theory and practice), leading review of social and

political sciences, from 1995 to 2008 .He served as a Head of department of

political sciences (1997-1999), vice-dean (1999-2001) and the dean of the Faculty of social sciences

(2001-2003). His focus of research is on political culture, political system of Slovenia, political

doctrines, comparative political systems, and history of political ideas. He published seven books.

He was a minister of Education, and Sport (2008-20012).

Prof.(Dr.) A.K. Dey

Professor, BIMTECH, Greater Noida, India.

Dr. Dey is a Professor of Decision Sciences & Operations Management at Birla

Institute of Management Technology (BIMTECH), Greater NOIDA, U. P., India.

Besides Operations and Supply Chain Management, his areas of expertise include

Curriculum Development and Student Engagement. He is the Editor of the South

Asian Journal of Business & Management Cases – an SCOPUS indexed Sage

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Publication. Dr. Dey is on the EAB of Emerald Emerging Market Case Studies and Journal of

Entrepreneurship in Emerging Economies. He is the Guest Editor of two research journals.The

framework to develop Innovative and Evolving MBA curriculum and Brand Building of conference

and journal through Social Media, two articles by Dr. Dey, have been published in BizEd magazine

of AACSB. The framework for developing innovative and evolving curriculum is also published in the

Global Focus magazine of EFMD

As Chairperson of Center for Management Case Development, Dr. Dey is responsible to create an

environment to facilitate case research, writing and teaching in BIMTECH.

Often Dr. Dey is invited to deliver Keynote speeches on various themes. On 22nd Oct 2019 he

presented his thoughts on the curriculum development at BIMTECH at the AACSB Conference for

Asia Pacific, Seoul, South Korea.He was one of the speakers at SEABC Conference at Sriwijaya

University, Indonesia.

He is a member of five Editorial Advisory Boards and a regular reviewer of many leading

International Management Research Journals. A University Rank holder, Dr. Dey possesses a blend

of corporate, consultancy and academic experience. In 2009 Star Group of Industries and DNA,

Mumbai had awarded Dr. Dey as Most Innovative Professor of Management.

Dr lLona Hunek Professor, Dept. of Business Strategy, Kozminski University, Poland

Prof. Hunek, PhD is an assistant professor at Kozminski University in Warsaw and

a visiting lecturer at University College Dublin. She lectures in negotiation,

international business and HRM, diversity management and talent management

in Poland, Ireland, Singapore, China, Hong Kong and Sri Lanka.

Her research interests include MNCs from and in emerging economies, managing people in

multinational environment and equality and diversity management. She is also an executive

business trainer to several companies and institutions in Poland, and a partner in ‘Flashpoint’

Talent Institute and ‘Passion to Education and Development’ Foundation. She started, developed

and managed Erasmus student and faculty exchange programme in Kozminski University – now the

most internationalized business school in Poland.

Dr. Siti Zakiah Bt. Melatu Samsi Deputy Dean, Faculty of Business, Multimedia University, Malaysia.

Dr. Siti Zakiah Bt. Melatu Samsi is the Deputy Dean in the Faculty of Business,

Multimedia University. She started her career in MMU in 2008 after completing

her master’s degree in Information Technology – Management from Universiti

Teknologi Malaysia. She is currently teaching IT Service Management, Critical

Thinking in Organizations and E-Business. She obtained her professional certificate in Information

Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL v3) in 2015.

Most of her research contributions are in the area of Collaborative Knowledge Management in

halal Supply Chain and Islamic e-Tourism. She obtained a few research funds from MMU internal

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grant (SFSCR & MMU Mini Fund) and Ministry of Higher Education (FRGS). She also involves in

Innovation projects and received few innovation awards (2 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze) for her Halascan

apps from both international and local level innovation competitions since 2014. Halascan mobile

app is a collaboration project between MMU and Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin). She is now

actively involves in Entrepreneurship Development programs and mentoring few teams in

entrepreneurship development.

Mr. Parthajeet Das

Director, Africa, India & Middle East (AIM), Advisory Services,

Ernst & Young LLP, New Delhi.

Mr. Das has more than fifteen years of rich and diverse experience in education

sector – across primary, secondary, higher education, TVET as well as other social

sectors. He runs the advisory mandate for School Education across governments, multi-lateral

organisations, foundations and CSOs for EY in India and lead exceptional project delivery, business

and practice development. In the past he has worked at other top management consulting firms

and have led teams and developed functional expertise around policy, governance, programme

design and implementation, planning & budgeting, use of data/evidence, Public Private

Partnerships (PPPs), performance improvement, monitoring and evaluation and research.

He has strong interpersonal skills and also an effective communicator with excellent written and

presentation skills. He has authored a toolkit for ‘Improving School Education through Public

Private Partnerships (PPPs)’ released by Hon’ble President of India in 2010. He recently authored

and presented a second paper – Secondary School Preparedness Programme (SSPP) at University of

Oxford, UK at the UKFIET ‘Learning for Sustainable Futures’ 2017 conference.

Mr. Nishit Jain

Sr. Spl. Advisor, Asia EFMD, New Delhi, India.

Mr. Jain is an alumnus from the GEM, France having graduated with its

prestigious, Master in International Business (MIB). Prior to this he did his MBA

from New Delhi. He studied Economics at Delhi University and Fashion

management at NIFT, Delhi. For more than a decade now Mr. Jain has been involved in business

development activities for Education industry in India and Asia. He is in charge of helping EFMD

establish projects in India and neighboring countries in the South Asia to enhance visibility through

different activities in this region through collaborative structures. He is responsible for EFMD’s new

strong hold in the ASEAN region by putting together the EFMD GN global annual conference and

many other initiatives in the region.

Mr. Jain is one of the Founding Member & Advisor Executive Board Member at Mahindra Ecole

Centrale and several other boards. He is part of the leadership and governing council for SDM

Institute of Management Development, Mysore, Executive Member FICCI –Higher Education

Committee and HES (National apex body for higher education policy, Government of India).

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Ms. Amy Memon Manager, Accreditation Services, AACSB International, Mumbai, India.

Ms. Memon is Manager of Accreditation Services (Asia Pacific) for AACSB. She has

over a decade of experience working with AACSB’s member schools, and served as

the association’s special advisor in India for six years. Prior to her relocation to

Mumbai, India, Amy was Manager of Research at AACSB’s US headquarters, where

she contributed to research reports, including The Globalization of Business Schools and Impact of

Research: A Guide for Business Schools. Amy also represented AACSB at the UN Global Compact to

co-convene the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME). She began her career at

AACSB developing and executing conferences and seminars across five continents.

Session –V: Thematic Presentations on Issues & Challenges in Emerging Market Scenario

Prof. M N Tripathi Professor and Associate Dean, Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar, India.

Dr M. N. Tripathi is a Chemical Engineer from NIT, Rourkela and is an alumnus from

Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He has worked for more than 23 years

in domestic and multinational companies, when in industry. His experience has largely been in

Sales and Marketing, with a brief stint in Logistics and Distribution.

As a Professor in the Marketing Faculty of Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar, Dr

Tripathi takes electives in Integrated Marketing Communication, Consumer Behaviour and Selling

and Negotiation apart from the core courses in Marketing. His research interests are in Consumer

Satisfaction, Customer Servicing, Negotiation and the influence of affect in consumer decision

making. He has written and presented several papers and cases published in national and

international forums in Marketing and other areas. His papers have been commended and he has

received the award of ‘best paper’ a number of times in international conferences. Presently he is

an Associate Dean of the Institute handling Career Advisory Services. He is a visiting faculty to XLRI,

Jamshedpur and Singapore and the EMBA Programme at the S. P. Jain Centre of Management,

Dubai. He has also been awarded as the ‘Best Professor teaching Marketing Management’ by ABP

News for 2014.

Dr Tripathi has also done consulting for a number of organizations such as Orissa State Cooperative

Bank Ltd, KIDS, BSNL, NACO and UNICEF. He is also an avid trainer and has conducted training

programmes on Selling Skills, Negotiation Skills, Customer Service Management, Strategic

Marketing, Basic Marketing Skills and Effective Managerial Skills for many organizations.. He is also

the Executive Vice-President (Training) of the Bhubaneswar Metropolitan Management Association

and the President of IIMA Alumni Association, Bhubaneswar chapter.

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Prof. Arvind Sahay Professor of Marketing and International Business, IIM Ahmedabad, India.

Professor Sahay joined IIMA in June 2004 from London Business School where

he had been teaching since his Ph.D. in 1996 from the University of Texas at

Austin.

Prof. Sahay is currently an independent director on the board of Brandscapes

Consultancy Pvt. Ltd, Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizers & Chemicals Limited (GNFC), HIL (A CK Birla

Group Firm) and Director on the board of IFCI Limited. He has worked with the working group on

Gold established by the Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Govt. of India and

with the Niti Aayog Committee to Transform Gold Markets. As Dean(AER), he has led the fund

raising effort at IIMA and had helped raise more than INR 130 crores over 36 months. His strong

international orientation had also resulted in an increase in student exchange numbers from 120 to

180 over three years. As Chairperson (SBU Head) of Executive Education at IIMA He was able to

raise the revenues from INR 670 million to INR 920 million over two years (CAGR of 17%). He is also

the Chairperson of the India Gold Policy Center at IIMA is the Chairperson of the marketing area at

IIMA.

His primary areas of interest include marketing strategy, pricing, neuroscience and consumer

behavior, brand management, high tech marketing, international trade and investment. Sectorally,

he has worked extensively in pharmaceuticals, cement, building materials, telecom, broadcast,

automotive, FMCG, education and financial services sectors among others. At the Indian Institute of

Management, Ahmedabad, he has taught the basic marketing courses on the PGP, PGPX and PGP-

PMP programs. In addition, he offers elective courses on pricing, international trade, brand

management, neuroscience and consumer behavior, tracking organizational performance and

valuation, Fintech: Business Models, Strategy and Marketing and Doing Business in India. His

executive education and consulting clients come primarily from the financial services,

pharmaceutical, building materials conglomerates and media sectors. His teaching ratings are

consistently in the 9/10 range. His corporate experience includes stints as a management trainee in

the manufacturing sector and as a customer service and then account manager in the financial

services industry. He has consulted and done corporate training for more than 50 clients in India

and abroad. He has conducted programs for dealers in industries like cement, automotive,

pharmaceuticals and auto components.

Professor Sahay is the recipient of the University Wide Outstanding Dissertation Award from the

University of Texas at Austin (for his Ph.D. thesis), the Innovation in Teaching Award at London

Business School and of the Dewang Mehta Best Teacher Award in Marketing Management and the

UTV Bloomberg Best Marketing Professor in India. He was also nominated to the Thinkers50 India

list by the Institute of Competitiveness, Harvard Business School. He has been an invited speaker at

the Pricex Conference in Chicago, at the BusinessWeek Conference on E-marketing in London, at

the annual meetings of All India Management Association in Indore, at the Western Conference of

the Confederation of Indian Industry in Ahmedabad, at the CIO Forum, at the India International

Gold Convention and at the Indian Professional Business Network in Qatar. He is the coordinator

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and lead faculty for IIMA’s management development programs on Pricing, Neuroscience in

Marketing and Fintech, among the first programs of their kind in India. He has been a member of

the FICCI Sub-Committee on Pharmaceuticals.

His recent research has been in the areas of brand relationships, tensile pricing, life cycles in

marketing, customer dimensions of gold in India, customer responses to dynamic pricing and how

and when to implement dynamic pricing, customer reactions to overlapping price ranges; impact of

bundling on customer reference prices; customer loss aversion at different price levels; impact of

price changes in pharmaceuticals in India on demand, brand advocacy, and brand preference

reversal due to cognitive load and discount framing. His latest papers appear in “Judgment and

Decision Making in 2017 and Journal of Global Marketing” in 2018 on the idea that there are limits

to loss aversion and to quantity changes in FMCG products before customers react.

Prof. Sahay has authored more than 50 cases and published in leading international journals like

the Journal of Marketing, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of International

Business Studies, Sloan Management Review, Vikalpa, the Journal of Academy of Marketing

Science; Journal of Product and Brand Management, Judgment and Decision Making and Journal of

Indian Business Research. His paper in the Journal of Academy of Marketing Science is one of the

most widely cited papers in marketing. He has been a regular columnist for Outlook Business

magazine on marketing strategy and also writes occasionally for the leading Indian business

newspapers, Financial Express, and DainikBhaskar on gold, economics and business. He is the

author of a case book on marketing strategy called Cases in Pricing, Marketing Communications

and Distribution. He is currently working on a book on “Brands and the Brain.”

Prof. Sahay has been a visiting faculty at, EADA (Spain), the Mason School of at the College of

William and Mary (USA), University of Texas at Austin (USA), IIM Lucknow, Asian Institute of

Technology, (Vietnam), Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria (South Africa),

SP Jain Institute of Management Research (Singapore, Dubai), Retail Alliance (Dubai) and Indian

School of Business, Hyderabad.

Dr. Sandip Anand

Professor, XIMB &,Founding Associate Dean, Doctoral Programs,

Xavier University, Bhubaneswar, India.

Prof. Anand is a Professor of Marketing at the Xavier Institute of Management,

Bhubaneswar, India. He has been the founding dean of doctoral programs at

Xavier University India. Other than XIMB, he has taught marketing courses at

Mudra Institute of Communications, Ahmedabad (MICA), IIM Ranchi, Shiv Nadar University and

Ravenshaw University India. As a marketing research professional he has provided consultancy to

several reputed corporations. He is a recipient of Population Association of America grant 2010

from William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, USA and 2015 Transformative Consumer Research

travel grant, American Marketing Association, USA. He was conferred with the K. Srinivasan Award

in 2014 by Indian association for the study of population for his published work on public-private

partnerships in India. His research articles have appeared in journals such as International Journal

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of Retail and Distribution Management, Journal of Marketing Communications, Journal of Food

Products Marketing, International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, IIMB Management

Review, International Journal of Rural Management, Demography India, Journal of Health

Management, etc. He has authored/co-authored three books. As a board member of examination,

he is actively involved in the evaluation of PhD work of several candidates at IIM Calcutta, IIT

Kharagpur, IIM Shillong, and University of Allahabad.

Mr. Abhilash Mohanty

Sales Team Lead, GOOGLE, New York.

Mr. Mohanty currently works as the Sales Team Leader at Google, in New York. He

has been with Google for more than 7 years. In that time, he has worked in varying

capacities in the Large Customer Sales business unit within Google where he was

working for the US market. His work at Google has taken him across the globe – India, US, Ireland,

Denmark and Japan to name a few. Prior to Google, Mr. Mohanty did IT consulting for a year. He

did his MBA with major in from MDI, Gurgaon and a Master Degree in Business Strategy course

from Cornell University, USA.

Md. Shamsuzzaman Director Business Operation, ACI Formulations ltd, Bangladesh.

Mr.Shamsuzzaman has fourteen years of experience as Business Head in

international and local business with firm determination in formulating

corporate vision, mission and long term strategies, leading all functional

departments to achieve corporate goal. Prior to this position he had worked

more than fourteen years in sales and marketing of Pharmaceutical products, FMCG and

Construction Material. He is a Result oriented strategic planner, Believer in participatory

management, Excellent team builder, Leader with high transparency and commitment, Challenger

for market leadership as well as Customer focused maintaining effective and efficient customer

relationship.

Session –VI: Thematic Presentations on Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Mr. Ashish Kumar Sinha, Senior Vice President & Head of Business Planning and Analytics, First Abu Dhabi Bank, UAE.

Mr. Sinha is the Head of Business Management and Analytics, SVP at First Abu

Dhabi Bank (FAB) with more than 18 years of Banking and analytics experience.

In my current role, I provide strategic advice to senior management team (SMT)

through portfolio management, valuations, potential buyout and portfolio re-pricing & business

intelligence.

He also an integral part of the restructuring team working closely with the CEO, CFO and HoCIB on

several key projects including setting up of Target Operating Model (TOM), Capacity Planning and

P&L management.

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He played a pivotal role in the overall integration (FBG-NBAD merger, 2017) process ensuring

delivery of cost synergies, rationalization of top business processes with strict adherence to key

deliverables and milestones. He has extensive experience in delivering complex system

development. My key strengths include Project Management, Change Management,

Business/Digital Transformations and Leading transformation Journey. I am a member of several

committees including Capital Allocation Committee and IT/Digital Governance committee. He holds

an MPhil degree in Economics from JNU, New Delhi with specialization in econometrics and

quantitative economics. He is currently based out of Abu Dhabi (UAE).

Mr. Ambika Prasad Nanda Head, CSR-Odisha, Tata Steel Kalinga Nagar, Odisha, India.

Mr. Nanda is the head of Corporate Social Responsibility of Tata Steel in Odisha.

He has worked with international NGOs on the issues of education, land, training

and capacity building, sustainable livelihoods, climate change and disaster

management to facilitate creation of people’s institutions through participatory

public discourse. He has also been a Member of the State Planning Board, Govt. of Odisha and

facilitated democratic space for the civil society organizations to share evidences from the field to

influence policy work. Mr. Nanda has also been the head of UNDP programmes in the states of

Odisha and Jharkhand and has initiated many policy works.

Mr. Abhrajit De Sr. VP, Information Systems – Corporate, Genus Power Infrastructures Ltd, India. Mr. De is dedicated IT professional with versatile Leadership and Technical

competencies in the field of Information Management Systems and Organization,

with skill sets developed through experience as Group Head of IT , Head of IT

Infrastructure & Applications, , Data center Manager , IT Consultancy, SAP Project Lead . Excels in

resolving IT challenges with innovative solutions, systems and process improvements proven to

increase efficiency, customer satisfaction and the bottom line.

He has more than 30 years of experience in the industry, offers in depth knowledge of Networking,

IT Security , Datacenter, Mail Messaging, Application Development, CAD/CAM, FEM applications,

SAP ERP , Team Management, Mentoring, ISO 9001, 14001, 18001 Standards.

Prof. (Dr.) Arunaditya Sahay

Professor and Dean (Research),BIMTECH, Greater Noida, India.

Prof. Sahay is Professor and Dean (Research) at Birla Institute of Management

Technology, Greater Noida, India. His teaching and research interests are in the

area of Strategic Management, M&A, Strategic Alliance & JV, Innovation,

Entrepreneurship, Sustainability and CSR. He has been a Turnaround Manager,

Corporate Entrepreneur, Researcher, Educator and an Institution Builder.

In his earlier assignment as Chairman & Managing Director, SIL, he played the lead role not only in

turnaround of the company but in creating new products and processes for national and

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international markets. He has continued to serve both corporate as well as academic institution

boards.

He has advised leading companies in the area of ‘Corporate Strategy’ which included creation of

their Vision, Mission and Values. He was the lead consultant in projects sponsored by European

Union, Govt. of India and Corporates.

Dr. Sahay is recipient of various best research and case writing awards. He has published in various

journals of repute, in areas like strategy, Innovation, entrepreneurship, sustainability and CSR

besides writing research, text & edited books and teaching and research cases. He also writes

popular articles in business press. His publications have crossed 125 mark. At BIMTECH, he aims to

imbibe research culture and drive social change through social entrepreneurship.

Prof. Dr. Gerald Goh Guan Gan Dean, Faculty of Business, Multimedia University, Malaysia.

Dr Gerald Goh Guan Gan is an associate professor in the Faculty of Business,

Multimedia University, Malaysia. He read for his Master of Arts (Communication)

and Doctor of Philosophy at Universiti Sains Malaysia, and Master of Business

Information Technology and Bachelor of Information Technology at the University

of Southern Queensland, Australia. His research interests are in knowledge management,

information systems, environmental sustainability, business management, heritage tourism and

mass communication. He has published over 50 journal articles, book chapters and conference

papers in these areas.

Session –VII: Thematic Presentations on Issues & Challenges in Human Resource Management Practices

Dr. Arun Kumar Rath Former Secretary to Govt. of India, MHRD and, Adjunct Professor, IIM, Trichy, India.

Dr. Rath completed Master of Science in Physics & Doctor of Philosophy in

Business Administration, Dr. Rath was educated in the Utkal, Delhi, Birmingham

and Bradford Universities. He joined the Indian Administrative Service in 1973

after a brilliant academic career. During his distinguished career as a civil servant spanning over

three and half decades, Dr. Rath made significant contributions to Indian administration and the

corporate world. As Secretary to Govt. of India, Ministry of Human Resources Development, Dr.

Rath contributed to enactment of the long-awaited Right of Children to Free and Compulsory

Education Act 2009.After superannuation from IAS, Dr Rath served as Dean & Professor at MDI

Gurgaon (2009-12) and as Dean & Professor in International Management Institute New Delhi

(2012-17).

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Dr Rath served as Independent Director in Coal India, Mahanadi Coalfield and Mangalore Refinery

& Petrochemicals.Currently Dr Rath is Adjunct Professor in the Indian Institute of Management

Trichy and the International Management Institute Bhubaneswar. Dr Rath is Fellow of the All India

Management Association New Delhi, and Distinguished Fellow of Institute of Directors, New Delhi

Dr Rath received the Odisha Living Legend Award in 2013 and was awarded the degree of D Litt(

honoris causa ) in 2017 for his outstanding contribution in the fields of education and corporate

governance.Dr Rath is an eminent civil servant, educationist, corporate leader, author, and

distinguished management Professor.

Dr. Hasmida Jamaluddin

HOD (KMEQA), Faculty of Business , Multimedia University, Malaysia.

Dr. Jamaluddin is a lecturer attach to Faculty of Business, Multimedia University.

She is currently the Head of Department for Knowledge Management, Economic

and Quantitative Analysis. She holds PhD in Management from Multimedia

University, Master of Science in Information Technology from Universiti Sains

Malaysia and Bachelor in Business Administration (MIS) from Saint Louis University (USA).

She has more than 15 years of experiences in teaching undergraduate students in various subjects

and prior to that, she had worked as software project manager and system programmer for more

than 5 years.Her research areas mainly in Cyberloafing, Internet addiction, Information Systems

and Organizational Behaviour. Her papers have been presented in numerous International

conferences and journals.

Dr. P.K. Mohanty Director-HR, OHPC Ltd, Odisha, India

Dr. Prabodh Kumar Mohanty is currently working as the Director (HR) in Odisha

Hydro Power Corporation Ltd., a Gold rated State PSU of Govt. of Odisha. Prior to

this appointment, Dr. Mohanty was the Vice President (Human Resource &

Employees Relation) in OCL IRON AND STEEL LTD. (Amtek Group, a leading MNC).

He brings with him more than 30 years of qualitative experience in HR discipline. He has earlier

served in various senior managerial positions (HR) in both public and private sectors such as Coal

India Ltd., Paradeep Phosphates Ltd., Engineers India Ltd., NINL and Jindal Stainless Ltd. He also

served as a Visiting Professor (HRM) at XIMB and Director, IBS. Presently, he is associated with

School of Management, NIT, Rourkela as adjunct Professor. He has been actively associated with

professional bodies like NIPM, ISTD, AIMA and QCFI.Dr. Mohanty is a well-known trainer in HR, OB,

Industrial Laws, CSR and Strategic HRM. He was the recipient of prestigious AIMA Young Managers

Award, NIPM Gold Medal for excellence in HR, Best Case Study Award on HR from Labour

Commissioner, Government of Odisha.

He holds Ph.D. Degree in Management and is a Post Graduate in PMIR from Utkal University and

has LL.B. Degree and Diploma in Training and Development from ISTD, New Delhi. He has

presented more than 20 papers in National and International Conferences and has published

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eighteen research papers/articles in leading National and International Journals and a book on

“Strategic HRM-A New Perspective for Steel Industry”.

Dr. RKS Mangesh Dash

Advisor & Co-Founder, TWARAN, Mumbai, India.

Dr. Dash is a multifaceted Human Resource crackerjack. He completed his Ph.D.

from Utkal University. His credentials are also endorsed by an M.Phil. in

Personnel Management & Industrial Relations, a Masters in Personnel

Management & Industrial Relations, an MBA in HRM. His interminable desire to

upgrade himself has propelled him to add more feathers to his cap. Certificate Programme on

“Psychometric Testing”, Diploma in Clinical Counselling from Med Varsity, Apollo Hospitals and his

pursuance of D.Litt. in “Employee Engagement in Telecom Sector” is a seal of his ramification. He

has also done FDP from XLRI, ERP from MDI, Gurgaon, SATM from IIT, Kharagpur and Certificate

Course in SAP-HR Module.He has taken several training sessions on soft skills for various

organisations during his career of 34 years including both Government and Corporate Sectors. He

has produced several Ph.D.s under his guidance, published various articles both in national and

international journals, and also published different books.

Mr. DK Bakshi

Chief Mentor & CEO, Global Talent Company Limited, Thailand.

Mr. Bakshi has 26 years HR professional worked experience with 9 cultures around

the world. He worked on various aspects of human resource management and

development. His role in 26 years of experience has been recruitment (locals and

expatriates), induction, placement, training and development, performance management system,

key people development, promoting mutual learning models, total quality management. He speaks

at various international conferences on various topics of global challenges as well as human

development. He associated with many universities and business schools on their advisory board

and helps the future generations to unleash their talent. He conducts many public programs in Asia

pacific including a well-established public program called “roadmap to success” through All India

Management Association in India as well as through Global Talent Company Limited.

Session -VIII : Paper Presentations on Human Resource Management

Shri Debi Prasad Satpathy GM - Human Resource Development, BEML Limited

Shri Debi Prasad Satpathy was born on 1st of July 1968 and is a native of

Bhubaneshwar, Odisha. He graduated from Berhampur University in the year 1988

in Science with Honours. He went on to complete his Masters of Arts in Industrial

Relation and Personnel Management from Berhampur University in the year 1990.

Shri Debi Prasad Satpathy carries with him over 28 years of vivid experience in the field of Human

Resource and Development from over 3 Public Sector Undertakings both under the Central

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Government and the Odisha State Government. The professional Career of Shri Debi Prasad

Satpathy begins in February 1992 with his posting as Executive Trainee, Personnel at the Nagaon

Paper Mill of Hindustan Paper Corporation Ltd at Assam. Over the 15years at Nagaon Paper Mill, he

has grown to the position of Manager HR before he was moved to Kolkata to serve at the Head

Quarters of Hindustan Paper Corporation for the next 4 years.

In 2011 after handling and acquiring a vast experience in Human Resource Development and

Industrial Relation in particular, he shifted from Hindustan Paper Corporation to BEML Limited,

Bangalore to head the Industrial Relation and Recruitment Department and later to head the

Personal Department of BEML’s first production unit, the Rail Coach Unit, Bangalore Complex. He

was instrumental in establishing the Centre of Excellence at Bangalore Complex.

Shri Debi Prasad Satpathy was key in leveraging IT in HRD by automating several HR activities such

as PMS, HOTO, Leave and movement Management, Exit Management to name a few. He has

actively involved himself in time bound review of HR policies and its implementation. He has the

credit of implementation Online Performance Test in BEML. He has involved in introducing the

Medical insurance for the new joiners. He was key in revision of pay and in various long term

settlements with unions. He has been an active campaigner for various Government of India

initiatives such as CSR, Swatch Bharath, Skill India, etc. During his period with BEML, Shri Debi

Prasad Satpathy also explored a brief stint with the Odissa Mining Corporation between 2017-18 as

the General Manager, HR. Presently he continues to Head the Corporate HRD Team at BEML in the

capacity of General Manager.

Sessions –IX: Paper Presentations on Marketing Management

Prof. Ananta Raj Ghimire

Program Director, Uniglobe College, Nepal

Prof Ananta Raj Ghimire is the Program Director of Uniglobe College “Best

Business School Award Holder College” in Nepal for BBA & MBA. He is also a

Corporate Trainer, Motivational Life Coach and Management Consultant as well as

an academic administrator and a professional social worker. Prof. Ghimire is an

ardent Lecturer of Marketing and Strategic Management, well known for his participative style of

teaching. He has about 12 years of experience in teaching, academic administration, training,

research and consultancy (in Nepal and overseas). Prior to joining Uniglobe College, as a Program

Director, he has worked in many important positions such as Academic Director for Santwona

College, Managing Director for Oranz Consulting’s, Marketing consultant for various MNC’s ,

Management Consultants for various organizations and Lecturer for various college and

Universities and so on. He has been invited by various Universities and institutes of repute, both in

Nepal and abroad (Malaysia, Thailand and India) as visiting speaker/delegate/resource person in

various programs and conferences and has also chaired many sessions in the conferences. An

accomplished trainer, he has already imparted training and development to the industry

professionals through workshops in leading corporations including Banks, Corporate Houses, NGO’s

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& INGO’s, Academic institutions and so on. He has trained more than 450 plus organizations

nationally and internationally. He has received various awards and recognition in various fields of

his expertise. He has written several books and academic publications under his name in the field

of Management, Business & Marketing. He has run various live informative talk shows and

discussion program as well as motivational program in various Nepali Medias. He has published

many research articles in various national and international journals.

Dr. Srikanth Villivalam

Associate Professor, Marketing, IPE, Hyderabad, India.

Dr. Srikanth has 24 years of Research, Teaching, Training, Consultancy, and

Industry Experience. He had been awarded Ph.D. by Osmania University,

Hyderabad for his Doctoral Thesis on Marketing Strategies of Software Export

Industry. He was awarded Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) by UGC. He had

published papers in reputed national and international journals. He has conducted National

Conferences on Cyber Marketing (2007), Customer Relationship Management (2008), Customer

Oriented Services Management (2009), Modern Retailing (2017), and Management Research in

India (2019). He has carried out an AICTE funded research project on Customer Relationship

Management. He has completed Consultancy Projects for Karnataka Soaps and Detergent Ltd.,

HOPCOMS, Karnataka State Agriculture and Marketing Board, Government of Karnataka, A.P. Rajiv

Swagruha Corporation, Mineral Exploration Corporation Ltd., (MECL), Govt. of Assam, Karnataka

Evaluation Authority, National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC), Dept. of Prohibition &

Excise, Govt. of Andhra Pradesh, and Telangana State Beverages Corporation Ltd. He has carried

out 17 Research and Consultancy Projects for different organizations. Presently, he is working on a

Research Project on “Whistleblowing as a Corporate Governance Mechanism” sponsored by Indian

Council of social Science Research (ICSSR). He is currently Coordinator (Research) in Institute of

Public Enterprise (IPE) looking after and coordinating the various Research and Consultancy

activities of the Institute and also coordinating the Institute’s affairs vis-à-vis ICSSR and other

Research Agencies. He is also the Head, School of Marketing in IPE.

Session- XI: Paper Presentations on IT, Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Prof S Sreenivasa Murthy Dean & Chairman – Placement, IPE, Hyderabad, India

Dr Murthy is currently Professor of Finance and Dean at IPE. He is also the

Chairman, Placements Division. He holds a Masters degree in Commerce from Sri

Venkateswara University, Masters degree in International Business from

Pondicherry University and Doctorate degree from University of Madras. He is a recipient of UGC

Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) for the doctoral programme. He is a merit scholarship holder

throughout the academic career and was awarded National Merit Scholarship twice during the

academic career.

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He has got more than two decades of experience in teaching, research, training and consultancy.

He is a Visiting Faculty to IIM Kozhikode, IIM Indore, NIT Warangal, IIIF, JNTU, ANGRAU and many

Universities. He has done consultancy assignments for World Bank, ADB, Ministry of Rural

Development GOI and many State level enterprises. He has conducted many conferences, symposia

and workshops in various areas of Finance. He has organized about 100 training programmes under

both open and in-house category for senior and middle level executives of various public and

private sector enterprises and banks. He has authored Ten books and many course materials and

published a number of articles in reputed journals and presented papers in many national and

international conferences. He has received Dewang Mehta Award for Best Professor in Financial

Management. His areas of interest include Corporate Finance, Project Appraisal and Financial

Services.

Dr. Ashok Kumar Panda Chairman, ISTD, Bhubaneswar Chapter, India

Dr. Ashok Kumar Panda is a motivational speaker and a media analyst. He has

over three decades of experience as a journalist and also takes keen interest in

teaching and in organizing workshops at regular intervals in Government,

Universities and Public Sector undertakings like NTPC, SAIL, Coal India, NALCO,

Indian Oil Corporation, Indian Railways and other organizations. He is a doctorate in Development

Communication from Berhampur University and post graduate in Journalism from Banaras Hindu

University. He is first class first in Bachelor of Journalism & Mass Communication. He is also the

recipient of Chancellor’s Cup of Sambalpur University in English Debate.

Dr. Panda, was the Visiting Professor in Ravenshaw University for two and half years in the

Department of Journalism & Mass Communication. A Visiting Fellow in the University of Oxford for

one academic year and Visiting Scholar in the University of Minnesota, USA. He has several papers

to his credit on Media &Management and presented papers in India and International forums in

Beijing, Manila, Singapore, London and Washington D.C.He is the Editor of the book- “Turn Around

India” published by Himalaya Publishing House. Dr Panda is a former Asst. Governor & Past

President of Rotary Club of Bhubaneswar. He was inducted to the “PR Hall of Fame” by Public

Relations Council of India in the 12th Public Relations Global Conclave on March 9, 2018 at Pune.

Dr. Panda was awarded the Kalinga Gaurav Sanman for the year – 2018 for his contribution to

Journalism and also as a distinguished motivational Speaker by the SXEC Trust. Dr. Panda is the

Chairman of Bharatiya Vidya Bhawan, Rourkela Kendra and also the Chairman of the Indian Society

of Training & Development, Bhubaneswar Chapter and the Chairman of Public Relations Council of

India, Bhubaneswar.

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Valedictory Session

Shri Sridhar Patra CMD, NALCO, Bhubaneswar Shri Patra has been appointed as Chairman-cum-Managing Director of the

Company w.e.f. 17th December, 2019.

Shri Sridhar Patra joined the Company as Director (Finance) on 01.09.2018. Shri Patra was assigned

the additional charge of Chairman-cum-Managing Director w.e.f. 01.12.2019. Before joining

NALCO, he had served as Director (Finance) of THDC India Limited for more than 5 years.

Born on 12.10.1964, Shri Patra is a member of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India and rank

holder graduate in Commerce from Utkal University. Shri Patra is a seasoned Finance & Accounts

Professional with results-driven and team oriented leadership and have demonstrated

commitment to organizational growth. He has over three decades of experience in finance and

accounts functions of various Public Sector Undertaking like Odisha Mining Corporation Ltd., Indian

Rare Earths Ltd. and Mangalore Refinery & Petrochemicals Ltd (A subsidiary of ONGC Ltd.) with

exposure in Corporate Accounts, Budgetary Control, Direct & Indirect Tax Management, Strategic

Financial & Business Planning, Financial evaluation of Contracts, Cost Excellence and Treasury

function. Shri Patra has contributed significantly as an academician to professional accounting

institutions apart from his employment in PSUs.

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Conference Convener

Dr. Anubha Ray

Asst. Professor & Area Head, Business Communication,

Birla School of Management, Birla Global University, Bhubaneswar.

Dr. Ray has more than twenty-three years of teaching experience from different

universities of Odisha, consistently striving to create a challenging and engaging

learning experience for her students. Dr Ray is a PhD from Utkal University in American Literature

and pursues her research endeavor by publishing research papers in reputed journals. Her areas of

expertise are Business Communication, Interpersonal and Cross-cultural Communication. She has

conducted several MDP sessions on Effective Interpersonal Communication.

She has been supervising PhD scholars. She has authored a book titled “Women in F. Scott

Fitzgerald: Voice Unheard”. Currently, she is serving at BGU as an Assistant Professor & Area Head

in Business Communication.

Dr. Archana Choudhary

Asst. Professor & Area Head, OB & HR ,

Birla School of Management, Birla Global University, Bhubaneswar.

Dr. Archana Choudhary is a faculty in the area of OB and HR at Birla Global

University. She has done her MBA from L.N. Mishra Institute, Patna and Ph.D.

from KIIT School of Management, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar. She has thirteen

years of experience in teaching and research. She has also been the Editor, BIITM Business Review,

a research based journal. She has attended a number of FDPs and workshops at IIT Kharagpur and

XIMB. She has also held the responsibility of FDP and National Seminar Coordinator for conducting

a number of AICTE sponsored Faculty Development Programs and National Seminars and has a

number of publications to her credit. She has reviewed a number of papers of different publication

houses. She has conducted a number of MDPs and FDPs. Dr. Choudhary has been invited to chair

sessions in HR and OB conferences. She teaches Human Resource Management, Organizational

Behaviour, Training and Development, HR Analytics, Compensation Management etc. to the post

graduate students. She has also attended workshops on Research Methodology at Cornell

University, New York, USA. Her research interests are in the area of turnaround management,

learning and its implications, organizational change, and human resource development. She has

presented a number of papers in national and international conferences.

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