Ranjan Kumar Ghosh is currently an Associate Professor at the Centre for Management in Agriculture at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India.

• Ph.D. in Resource Economics from Humboldt University Berlin, Germany, and was awarded the DAAD scholarship to pursue Ph.D. studies.

• Affiliated researcher with the Elinor Ostrom Workshop, Indiana University Bloomington, 2012 fellow of the Ronald Coase Institute, Washington DC.

• Department of Economics and Business Studies, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) Uppsala, Sweden.

• He has published in globally reputed journals.

• Associate editor in the journal Frontiers in Environmental Science.

• Consultant to several national and international development agencies.

• Member of several high-powered government committees and sits on the board of one of India's largest public sector enterprises.

• Lead coordinator - FABLE India, Global food and land-use (FOLU) coalition.

Interest areas:
Institutional economics, property rights, food systems transformation, agribusiness, and agri-food value chains.

Dr. Rajesh Chandwani is a faculty in the Human Resource Management area at the Indian Institute of management, Ahmedabad and is the Chairperson of Academy of HRD. He is fellow of IIM Bangalore.

• MD (Paediatrics) from Baroda Medical College.

• Served as a Paediatrician in public health institutions in remote rural and urban areas, primary and tertiary centres.

Interest areas:
Issues related to HRM in Indian context, focussing on managing organizational growth and scaling up; challenges and issues related to scaling up of micro-entrepreneurs and use of Information Technology to enhance the effectiveness of healthcare personnel and healthcare delivery and scaling up of affordable and quality healthcare services for the underprivileged.

Rupesh is a subject expert in the area of Finance and Accounting

• Visiting faculty at the University of Delhi

• Pursuing a Ph.D. at the Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli. His thesis is aimed at understanding the impact of the sectoral allocation of bank credit on asset quality in Indian commercial banks.

• Research published in ABDC ranked peer-reviewed journals.

• Has received two best paper awards at two international conferences held in Sydney (Australia) and Delhi.

• Has contributed a chapter in the edited book titled "New Paradigms in Management" published by Bloomsbury.

• He was Associated with Amity University as faculty for Finance.

• Alumnus of the University of Delhi.

Hobbies:

Enjoys watching and creating theatre performances.

• Prof Vimal Kumar M is Assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Management Visakhapatnam.

• PhD in the area of Information Systems and Analytics from the Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli.

• Has presented his research work in premier international conferences like PACIS, AMCIS and ICIS Doctoral Colloquium.

• His research work has been published in various reputed journals such as Information & Management, Information Systems Frontiers, Computers in Human Behaviour, AIS Transactions on Human-Computer Interactions and Economic & Political Weekly.

Interest areas:

Societal development through information technology, social inclusion, fairness and privacy concerns of artificial intelligence (AI).

• Ph.D. from Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli.

• Has presented his research in prestigious international conferences and his papers have won best paper awards.

• His research has been published by reputed journals.

Interest areas:

Value co-creation, counterfeit consumption and subsistence consumption. His teaching interests include digital marketing, rural marketing and brand management.

• PhD, from IIM Trichy, in the area of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.

• Has presented at prestigious international venues such as EGOS (European Group of Organization Studies), ECP (European Congress of Psychology) etc.

• Teaches courses such as Organizational Behavior, Qualitative Research Methods and Leadership, in both the MBA and PhD programs, at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Coimbatore, where he presently works as a faculty member.

• His research areas are intersection of identity (the concept of the self or 'who am I?'') and organizational change.

He believes in setting a continuous growth mindset for himself and encourages others around him to follow their passion. As a part of this, he runs a YouTube channel and writes blogs in his free time.

Kumaravel is a senior faculty associate at IFMR Graduate School of Business, Krea University & a doctoral candidate in the area of Operations Management & Decision Sciences at the Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli.

• His doctoral research is located in the field of behavioral operations management, particularly, in examining the role of heuristics and biases, in supply chain coordination and management.

• He has been a consistent performer with outstanding academic record and leadership capabilities.

• He has received Director’s Merit Award for scholastic excellence in the first year of coursework at IIM Trichy.

• He received his bachelor’s degree in Electronics & Communication Engineering from SSN College of Engineering with a merit scholarship and a gold medal.

• He has about 3 years of industry experience as a software professional, with Ford Motor Company.

• He has presented at leading international conferences such as Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) Annual Conference, European Conference on Operational Research (EURO) Conference and Society of Operations Management (SOM) Conference.

• He has served as a teaching assistant and tutor for the post-graduate courses at IIM Trichy.

• He was a core organizer of the Indian Subcontinent Decision Sciences Conference (2017).

• He is an ASQ Certified Quality Process Analyst and a Six Sigma Green Belt.

• Post Graduate in Psychology from Delhi University with 22 years of work experience in the Development Sector.

• Expertise and interest areas are in mental and public health.

• She has been associated with several organizations and academic institutes as a consultant for counselling, training, project management and research.

• She was a lecturer of psychology with the Institute of Rehabilitation Medicine and Allied Sciences, affiliated with Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi.

She finds immense satisfaction in taking on assignments that are challenging and provide new opportunities for learning and growth.

• Faculty in the Operations Management and Supply Chain area at Jindal Global Business School.

• Ph.D. in Operations Management & Decision Science area from Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli.

• Bachelor of Technology degree in Production and Industrial Engineering from the University College of Engineering, Rajasthan Technical University Kota, India.

• Received several awards such as the Commendable Research Paper award at the 11th ISDSI International Conference, the Highly Commended Research article award at Emerald Literati Award (2019) and Best Paper award at the SOM conference at IIT Kanpur for his research work.

• Reviewer for several international journals and book publishers.

• Published research articles in various International Journals such as Journal of Cleaner Production, Services Marketing Quarterly, Benchmarking: an International Journal, Global Business Review and Total Quality Management & Business Excellence.

• Presented his research work at various International Conferences such as SOM, POMS, EurOMA, DSI and ISDSI. Works in the area of sustainable operations management, services operations management and quality management in the Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)

• Dr. Nithyananda KV (PhD from National Law School of India University, Bangalore) is an Assistant Professor in the area of Finance and Legal Systems at the Indian Institute of Management Tiruchirappalli (IIM Trichy), Tamil Nadu, India, where he teaches courses on Legal Aspects of Business, Legal Aspects of Marketing, Legal Aspects of Entrepreneurship, and Strategic Management of Intellectual Property Rights (SMIPR).

• He has been teaching the SMIPR course at France for the last 9 years. He has also taught this at Singapore, Malaysia, and Sri Lanka.

• With backgrounds in both finance and legal systems area, he brings a unique perspective to business problems.

• He comes with a rich consulting experience of six years where he was working in the area of urban infrastructure finance.

• During his consulting years, he has provided consulting services to the World Bank and ADB, in addition to Bangalore Development Authority, Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike, Mysore City Corporation, Brihan Mumbai Mahanagara Palika, Jalgaon City Corporation, among others.

• In addition to his consulting experience, he brings in academic experience of around fifteen years and industry experience of about two years.

• He sits on the board of two private companies and he is also providing consulting services to many companies in the area of pharmaceuticals, media, electronics and telecommunications on aspects like valuation of intellectual property, IPR strategy, collateralization of IPR, etc.

• He also does contract evaluation and contract management advisory services as part of his consulting activities at IIM Trichy.

• Currently Dr. Nithyananda holds the administrative responsibilities of Chairperson, International Relations at IIM Trichy.