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Culture and Heritage Communication Economics and Public Policy Family Business and Entrepreneurship Environment and Sustainability Finance, Accounting and Control Management and Organisation Marketing Technology, Operations and Decisions Sciences
Bhargav Adhvaryu, Professor | Ahmedabad University

Bhargav Adhvaryu

Professor & Chair, PhD Programme

PhD (University of Cambridge)

Research Interests: My research spans interrelated topics such as: urban analytical studies (morphology, form, spatial structure, transport networks, redevelopment potential, and socioeconomic phenomena); land use-transport interaction modelling for sustainable cities; public transport accessibility; localisation of SDG11; urban management and governance; urban transport infrastructure design; AI in urban planning

Md Shahrukh Anjum, Assistant Professor

Md Shahrukh Anjum

Assistant Professor

PhD (IIM Bangalore)

Research Interests: Operations Research, Combinatorial Optimisation, Network Design, Heuristics

Harnain Kaur Arora, Assistant Professor

Harnain Kaur Arora

Assistant Professor

PhD (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad)

Research Interests: Personality, Whistleblowing at Work, Courage in Organisations, Impostor Phenomenon, Gender Studies

Shashank Aswathanarayana, Assistant Professor

Shashank Aswathanarayana

Assistant Professor

PhD (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Research Interests: Acoustics of Heritage Spaces, 3D/Spatial Audio, Soundscape Studies

Niraj Athavle, Professor of Practice of Management

Niraj Athavle

Professor of Practice of Management

PGDM (IIM Bangalore)

Research Interests: Global Markets, Fixed Income, Foreign Exchange, Derivatives, International Finance

Dinesh Barot, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Dinesh Barot

Assistant Professor

PhD (Gujarat University)

Research Interests: Reliability and Life-Testing, Bayesian Inferences, Big Data Analytics , Research Methodology.

Gaurav Bhattacharya, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Gaurav Bhattacharya

Assistant Professor

PhD (Jawaharlal Nehru University)

Research Interests: Development Economics; Climate Change; Political Economy; Firm Dynamics; International Trade Policy

Rikhia Bhukta, Assistant Professor

Rikhia Bhukta

Assistant Professor

PhD (IIT Kanpur)

Research Interests: Development Economics, Gender Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Labour Economics, Household Finance, Energy Economics

Amrita Bihani, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Amrita Bihani

Assistant Professor & Assistant Director, Family Business and Entrepreneurship Programme

PhD (CEPT University)

Research Interests: Talent Management, Employee Engagement

Aranya Chakraborty, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Aranya Chakraborty

Assistant Professor

PhD (McGill University)

Research Interests: Development Economics, Information Economics, Applied Microeconomics

Pankaj Chandra, Vice Chancellor and Ahmedabad University

Pankaj Chandra

Professor, Vice Chancellor and Chairman, Board of Management

PhD (The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)

Research Interests: Manufacturing Management, Supply Chain Coordination, Building Technological Capabilities

Bhanu Pratap Singh Choudhary | Assistant Professor

Bhanu Pratap Singh Choudhary

Assistant Professor

PhD (IIM Ahmedabad)

Research Interests: Elaboration Likelihood Model, Prospect Theory, Attitude Ambivalence, TMT and CXO role in Marketing Strategy

Jatin Christie, Senior Lecturer | Ahmedabad University

Jatin Christie

Senior Lecturer

PhD (Dharamsinh Desai University)

Research Interests: People Processes and Behaviour, Training Design and Training Effectiveness, Change Management Processes and Interventions, Pedagogy Innovations, Employee Experience and Employee Wellbeing.

A Damodaran, Visiting Professor | Ahmedabad University

A Damodaran

Visiting Professor

PhD (University of Kerala)

Research Interests: Management and Economics of Arts and Creative Industry, Climate and Biodiversity Financing, Global Commons, IPRs and Digital Technologies with Focus on Blockchains/IoT

Amit Das, Professor

Amit Das

Professor & Senior Associate Dean, Graduate Programmes

PhD (University of Minnesota)

Research Interests: Data Science, Information Systems, and E-Business

Sabyasachi Das, Associate Professor

Sabyasachi Das

Associate Professor

PhD (Yale University)

Research Interests: Political Economy, Public Economics

Shobha Das

Shobha Das

Dean and Professor

PhD (University of Minnesota)

Research Interests: Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Technology, and Innovation

Supratim Das Gupta, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Supratim Das Gupta

Assistant Professor

PhD (University of South Carolina)

Research Interests: Resource and Environmental Economics, Energy Economics, Real Options, Macroeconomics.

Satish Deshpande, Professor of Practice of Management

Satish Deshpande

Professor of Practice of Management

Executive Fellow Programme in Management (Indian School of Business)

Research Interests: Pedagogy Tools for Reflective Learning Strategies, Disruptive Innovation, Private Equity Firm Strategy

Vedant Dev, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Vedant Dev

Assistant Professor

PhD (IIM Ahmedabad)

Research Interests: Work Design, Human-AI Interaction, AI augmentation, Gamification in the workplace

Poonam Dugar, Assistant Dean & Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Poonam Dugar

Assistant Dean and Assistant Professor

PhD (Gujarat University), Chartered Accountant

Research Interests: Venture Capital/ Private Equity

Aditya Ghosh, Professor

Aditya Ghosh

Professor

PhD (University of Heidelberg)

Research Interests: Sustainability, Climate Change, Indigenous Environmental Knowledge and Heritage, Spatial Transformation, Multispecies Justice, Socioecological System, Environmental Humanities

Arun Gupta, Associate Professor

Arun Gupta

Associate Professor

PhD (Yale University)

Research Interests: Machine Learning and Agentic AI for Finance, Structured Finance / Hybrid Securities, Reinsurance, Valuation / Mergers and Acquisitions

Nilesh Jain, Associate Professor

Nilesh Jain

Associate Professor

PhD (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi)

Research Interests: Industrial Organisation, Information Economics, Applied Microeconomic Theory, Economics of Organisation

Sumit Jaiswal, Assistant Professor, Ahmedabad University

Sumit Jaiswal

Assistant Professor

PhD (IIM Ahmedabad)

Research Interests: Early-stage Venture Financing, Venture Failure/Termination, Accelerators/Incubators, Family Business and Entrepreneurial Networks, Minority Entrepreneurship, Corporate Entrepreneurship, Startup Leadership, and Corporate Governance

Hetal Jhaveri, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Hetal Jhaveri

Assistant Professor

PhD (Sardar Patel University)

Research Interests: Financial Services, Banking, Entrepreneurial Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions.

Jinraj Joshipura, Professor of Practice of Management

Jinraj Joshipura

Professor of Practice of Management

MS (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Research Interests: Search for solutions that shape the future rationally

Vaibhav Kadia, Assistant Professor & Associate Dean of Students | Ahmedabad University

Vaibhav Kadia

Assistant Professor, Academic Registrar

PhD(Ganpat University)

Research Interests: Finance, Accounting & Control.

Amarlal H Kalro, Professor Emeritus and Former Provost | Ahmedabad University

Amarlal H Kalro

Professor Emeritus and Former Provost

PhD (University of Minnesota)

Research Interests: Operations Management, OR Modeling, Irrigation & Water Management, Institution Building

Aditya Prakash Kanth, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Aditya Prakash Kanth

Associate Professor

PhD (Indian Institute of Heritage)

Research Interests: Scientific investigation of heritage materials and development of conservation methodologies.

Molly Kaushal, Professor and Director | Ahmedabad University

Molly Kaushal

Professor and Director, Centre for Heritage Management

PhD (Moscow State University)

Research Interests: Living Heritage of the Ramayana and Mahabharata, Ritual and Performance, Sacred Geography, Pastoral Communities, Folklore and Heritage discourse

Samvet Kuril, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Samvet Kuril

Assistant Professor

PhD (IIM Ahmedabad)

Research Interests: Management and Organisations.

Narendra Nath Kushwaha, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Narendra Nath Kushwaha

Assistant Professor

PhD (IIM Tiruchirappalli)

Research Interests: Auditing and Corporate Governance

Vinodh Madhavan, Associate Professor | Ahmedabad University

Vinodh Madhavan

Professor

PhD (Golden Gate University)

Research Interests: Nonlinear Time Series Analysis, Long Memory, Adaptive Market Hypothesis.

Preeti Maneck, Senior Lecturer | Ahmedabad University

Preeti Maneck

Senior Lecturer

PhD (Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda)

Research Interests: Comparative Literature, Post-Colonial Literature, Dalit Literature, Tribal Literature, Indian Drama in English, LGBTQ Studies and Environment Studies.

Kunal Mankodi, Senior Lecturer | Ahmedabad University

Kunal Mankodi

Senior Lecturer

PhD (Ganpat University)

Research Interests: SME Competitiveness, Sustainability and Strategy; Social Entrepreneurship

Bijal Mehta, Associate Professor | Ahmedabad University

Bijal Mehta

Associate Professor

PhD (Sardar Patel University)

Research Interests: Services Marketing & Society, Sociology of Technology, Digital Marketing, Smart Tourism, Sharing Economy, Digital Communication for Start-Ups and Service Firms

Ravi Miglani, Professor of Practice of Management | Ahmedabad University

Ravi Miglani

Professor of Practice of Management

PGPM (IIM Ahmedabad)

Research Interests: Marketing Research, Consumer Behaviour, Consumer Insights, Neuromarketing, Behavioural Economics, Ethnography

Sanjoy Mukerji, Professor of Practice

Sanjoy Mukerji

Professor of Practice

PGDM (IIM Bangalore)

Research Interests: Project Management, Materials Management

Prithwiraj Mukherjee, Associate Professor | Ahmedabad University

Prithwiraj Mukherjee

Associate Professor

PhD (ESSEC, France)

Research Interests: Digital Marketing, Agent-based Modeling, Behavioral Decision Making, Platform Exploitation, Generative Artificial Intelligence

Priyoma Mustafi, Assistant Professor

Priyoma Mustafi

Assistant Professor

PhD (University of Pittsburgh)

Research Interests: Behavioral Economics, Development Economics, Labor Economics, Experimental Economics

Darshana Padia, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Darshana Padia

Assistant Professor & Assistant Director, The Venture Fellowship Programme

PhD (Saurashtra University)

Research Interests: Social Media, Digital Media, Gender, Human Development.

Sudhir Pandey, Senior Lecturer | Ahmedabad University

Sudhir Pandey

Senior Lecturer

PhD (University of Lucknow)

Research Interests: Workplace Communication, CSR Communication, Problem Solving For Social Change

Jinal Parikh, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Jinal Parikh

Assistant Professor

PhD (Dharamsinh Desai University)

Research Interests: Quantitative Techniques & Marketing.

Parag Patel, Associate Professor | Ahmedabad University

Parag Patel

Associate Professor & Dean of the Undergraduate College

PhD (Gujarat University)

Research Interests: Equity Investment Decisions, Financial Services, Venture Funding

Saptam Patel, Associate Professor | Ahmedabad University

Saptam Patel

Associate Professor

PhD (Gujarat University)

Research Interests: Interdisciplinary Learning, Water and Sustainability, Innovative Pedagogy, Gender Studies, Communication, Fine Arts Studies

Minal Pathak, Associate Professor | Ahmedabad University

Minal Pathak

Associate Professor

PhD (Gujarat University)

Research Interests: Climate Change Mitigation, Sustainable Development Implications of Climate Actions, Urban Climate Actions

Chakravarthi Rangarajan, Distinguished University Professor | Ahmedabad University

Chakravarthi Rangarajan

Distinguished University Professor

PhD (University of Pennsylvania)

Mahendra Singh Rao, Associate Professor | Ahmedabad University

Mahendra Singh Rao

Associate Professor

PhD (XLRI Jamshedpur)

Research Interests: Numerical Cognition, Psychological Distance, Psychological Ownership, Regulatory Focus.

Rahul Rao, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Rahul Rao

Assistant Professor

PhD (IIM Bangalore)

Research Interests: Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, Financial Economics, Spatial Economics

Binny Rawat, Senior Lecturer | Ahmedabad University

Binny Rawat

Senior Lecturer

PhD (Charusat University, Gujarat)

Research Interests: Financial Management, Trade Credit, Financial Services

Subhankar Saha

Assistant Professor

PhD (Indian Institute of Management Bangalore)

Research Interests: Healthcare Operations Management, Sustainable Operations Management, Agriculture Supply Chain Management

Sandeep Salunke, Professor and Associate Dean

Sandeep Salunke

Professor and Associate Dean

PhD (University of Queensland)

Research Interests: Dynamic Capabilities, Service Innovation, Servitisation, Social Innovation, Internationalisation, Business Model Innovation, Digital Transformation

Kinshuk Saurabh, Associate Professor | Ahmedabad University

Kinshuk Saurabh

Associate Professor

Fellow Programme in Management (IIM Ahmedabad)

Research Interests: Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, Family Firms, Mergers & Acquisition, Banking, Asset Pricing

Saumil Shah, Senior Lecturer | Ahmedabad University

Saumil Shah

Senior Lecturer

MBA (Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda)

Research Interests: Finance, Capital Markets, Behavioral Finance

Zalak Shah, Senior Lecturer | Ahmedabad University

Zalak Shah

Senior Lecturer

PhD (Gujarat University)

Research Interests: Consumer Behaviour, Branding, Bottom of the Pyramid and Rural Marketing.

Deepti Sharma, Visiting Professor

Deepti Sharma

Assistant Professor

PhD (Indian Institute of Management Bangalore)

Research Interests: Public Policy and Management

Ekta Sharma, Associate Professor | Ahmedabad University

Ekta Sharma

Associate Professor

PhD (University of Rajasthan)

Research Interests: Organisational Behaviour, Human Resource Management, Ethics, Corporate Social responsibility,sustainability

Priyadarshi Shukla, Distinguished Professor | Ahmedabad University

Priyadarshi Shukla

Distinguished Professor; Chair, Global Centre for Environment and Energy

PhD (Stanford University)

Research Interests: Energy Efficiency, Energy-Environment Modelling, Renewable Technologies, Decentralised Planning, Integrated Assessment Modelling and Climate Change Policy Analysis.

Amit Singh, Assistant Professor

Amit Singh

Assistant Professor

PhD (IIT Kharagpur)

Research Interests: Sentiment Analysis Applications, Social Media Analytics, Panel Data Modelling, ICT diffusion in SMEs, and Multi-Criteria Decision Making

Ramadhar Singh, Distinguished University Professor | Ahmedabad University

Ramadhar Singh

Distinguished University Professor

PhD (Purdue University)

Research Interests: Organisational Behavior, Psychology, Public Policy, Research Methods

Abhinandan Sinha, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Abhinandan Sinha

Assistant Professor

PhD (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata)

Research Interests: Political Economy (Formal Theory and Modeling), Theoretical Development Economics, Applied Microeconomic Theory, Decision Sciences

Ramanathan Subramaniam, Associate Professor

Ramanathan Subramaniam

Associate Professor

PhD (University of Pittsburgh)

Research Interests: Applied Game Theory, Discrete Choice Models, Contract Theory

Mita Suthar, Associate Professor | Ahmedabad University

Mita Suthar

Associate Professor

PhD (Gujarat University)

Research Interests: Macroeconometrics, Industrial Economics, Cultural Economics.

Nimit Thaker, Lecturer | Ahmedabad University

Nimit Thaker

Lecturer

MCom (Gujarat University)

Research Interests: Corporate Governance, Direct and Indirect Taxes , Corporate Laws.

Sujo Thomas, Faculty | Ahmedabad University

Sujo Thomas

Senior Lecturer

PhD (Gujarat University)

Research Interests: Cause-related marketing, non-profit marketing, retailing, online consumer behaviour

Devanath Tirupati, Executive Provost | Ahmedabad University

Devanath Tirupati

Professor and Executive Provost

PhD (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Research Interests: Operations and Supply Chain Management, Queueing Networks, Technology Management

Sachin Tiwari, Assistant Professor

Sachin Tiwari

Assistant Professor

PhD (IIM Indore)

Research Interests: Supply Chain Contracts, Optimisation in Operations Management, Sustainable Operations and Circular Economy, Game Theory

Vibha Tripathi, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Vibha Tripathi

Assistant Professor

PhD (Gujarat University)

Research Interests: Corporate Governance, Related Party transactions, Capital Structure of Companies, Cash holdings and Financial Restructuring.

Bhaktida Satyendrabhai Trivedi, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Bhaktida Trivedi

Assistant Professor

PhD (Gujarat University)

Research Interests: Distributions, Misclassification, Inferential Statistics.

Chirag Trivedi, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Chirag Trivedi

Assistant Professor

MPhil (Gujarat University)

Research Interests: Culture Studies, Minority Studies, Indian Classical Music, Creative Writing and Translation.

Tana Trivedi, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Tana Trivedi

Assistant Professor

PhD (Christ University, Bangalore), MLitt (University of Stirling, UK)

Research Interests: Diaspora Studies, Business History, Gender Studies

Jeemol Unni, Professor | Ahmedabad University

Jeemol Unni

Professor

PhD (Gujarat University)

Research Interests: Labour Economics, Development, Economics of Education, Issues in Urban Economics and Informal Economy, Digital Economy, Gender Studies

Sonal Yadav, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Sonal Yadav

Associate Professor

PhD (Gujarat University)

Research Interests: Labour Economics, Development Economics, Economics of Education and Health, Gender Studies.

Shashank Aswathanarayana, Assistant Professor

Shashank Aswathanarayana

Assistant Professor

PhD (University of California, Santa Barbara)

Research Interests: Acoustics of Heritage Spaces, 3D/Spatial Audio, Soundscape Studies

A Damodaran, Visiting Professor | Ahmedabad University

A Damodaran

Visiting Professor

PhD (University of Kerala)

Research Interests: Management and Economics of Arts and Creative Industry, Climate and Biodiversity Financing, Global Commons, IPRs and Digital Technologies with Focus on Blockchains/IoT

Aditya Ghosh, Professor

Aditya Ghosh

Professor

PhD (University of Heidelberg)

Research Interests: Sustainability, Climate Change, Indigenous Environmental Knowledge and Heritage, Spatial Transformation, Multispecies Justice, Socioecological System, Environmental Humanities

Aditya Prakash Kanth, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Aditya Prakash Kanth

Associate Professor

PhD (Indian Institute of Heritage)

Research Interests: Scientific investigation of heritage materials and development of conservation methodologies.

Molly Kaushal, Professor and Director | Ahmedabad University

Molly Kaushal

Professor and Director, Centre for Heritage Management

PhD (Moscow State University)

Research Interests: Living Heritage of the Ramayana and Mahabharata, Ritual and Performance, Sacred Geography, Pastoral Communities, Folklore and Heritage discourse

Preeti Maneck, Senior Lecturer | Ahmedabad University

Preeti Maneck

Senior Lecturer

PhD (Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda)

Research Interests: Comparative Literature, Post-Colonial Literature, Dalit Literature, Tribal Literature, Indian Drama in English, LGBTQ Studies and Environment Studies.

Sudhir Pandey, Senior Lecturer | Ahmedabad University

Sudhir Pandey

Senior Lecturer

PhD (University of Lucknow)

Research Interests: Workplace Communication, CSR Communication, Problem Solving For Social Change

Saptam Patel, Associate Professor | Ahmedabad University

Saptam Patel

Associate Professor

PhD (Gujarat University)

Research Interests: Interdisciplinary Learning, Water and Sustainability, Innovative Pedagogy, Gender Studies, Communication, Fine Arts Studies

Chirag Trivedi, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Chirag Trivedi

Assistant Professor

MPhil (Gujarat University)

Research Interests: Culture Studies, Minority Studies, Indian Classical Music, Creative Writing and Translation.

Tana Trivedi, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Tana Trivedi

Assistant Professor

PhD (Christ University, Bangalore), MLitt (University of Stirling, UK)

Research Interests: Diaspora Studies, Business History, Gender Studies

Gaurav Bhattacharya, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Gaurav Bhattacharya

Assistant Professor

PhD (Jawaharlal Nehru University)

Research Interests: Development Economics; Climate Change; Political Economy; Firm Dynamics; International Trade Policy

Rikhia Bhukta, Assistant Professor

Rikhia Bhukta

Assistant Professor

PhD (IIT Kanpur)

Research Interests: Development Economics, Gender Economics, Applied Microeconomics, Labour Economics, Household Finance, Energy Economics

Aranya Chakraborty, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Aranya Chakraborty

Assistant Professor

PhD (McGill University)

Research Interests: Development Economics, Information Economics, Applied Microeconomics

Sabyasachi Das, Associate Professor

Sabyasachi Das

Associate Professor

PhD (Yale University)

Research Interests: Political Economy, Public Economics

Supratim Das Gupta, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Supratim Das Gupta

Assistant Professor

PhD (University of South Carolina)

Research Interests: Resource and Environmental Economics, Energy Economics, Real Options, Macroeconomics.

Nilesh Jain, Associate Professor

Nilesh Jain

Associate Professor

PhD (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi)

Research Interests: Industrial Organisation, Information Economics, Applied Microeconomic Theory, Economics of Organisation

Priyoma Mustafi, Assistant Professor

Priyoma Mustafi

Assistant Professor

PhD (University of Pittsburgh)

Research Interests: Behavioral Economics, Development Economics, Labor Economics, Experimental Economics

Chakravarthi Rangarajan, Distinguished University Professor | Ahmedabad University

Chakravarthi Rangarajan

Distinguished University Professor

PhD (University of Pennsylvania)

Rahul Rao, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Rahul Rao

Assistant Professor

PhD (IIM Bangalore)

Research Interests: Macroeconomics, Monetary Economics, Financial Economics, Spatial Economics

Abhinandan Sinha, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Abhinandan Sinha

Assistant Professor

PhD (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata)

Research Interests: Political Economy (Formal Theory and Modeling), Theoretical Development Economics, Applied Microeconomic Theory, Decision Sciences

Mita Suthar, Associate Professor | Ahmedabad University

Mita Suthar

Associate Professor

PhD (Gujarat University)

Research Interests: Macroeconometrics, Industrial Economics, Cultural Economics.

Jeemol Unni, Professor | Ahmedabad University

Jeemol Unni

Professor

PhD (Gujarat University)

Research Interests: Labour Economics, Development, Economics of Education, Issues in Urban Economics and Informal Economy, Digital Economy, Gender Studies

Sonal Yadav, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Sonal Yadav

Associate Professor

PhD (Gujarat University)

Research Interests: Labour Economics, Development Economics, Economics of Education and Health, Gender Studies.

Amrita Bihani, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Amrita Bihani

Assistant Professor & Assistant Director, Family Business and Entrepreneurship Programme

PhD (CEPT University)

Research Interests: Talent Management, Employee Engagement

Satish Deshpande, Professor of Practice of Management

Satish Deshpande

Professor of Practice of Management

Executive Fellow Programme in Management (Indian School of Business)

Research Interests: Pedagogy Tools for Reflective Learning Strategies, Disruptive Innovation, Private Equity Firm Strategy

Sumit Jaiswal, Assistant Professor, Ahmedabad University

Sumit Jaiswal

Assistant Professor

PhD (IIM Ahmedabad)

Research Interests: Early-stage Venture Financing, Venture Failure/Termination, Accelerators/Incubators, Family Business and Entrepreneurial Networks, Minority Entrepreneurship, Corporate Entrepreneurship, Startup Leadership, and Corporate Governance

Jinraj Joshipura, Professor of Practice of Management

Jinraj Joshipura

Professor of Practice of Management

MS (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Research Interests: Search for solutions that shape the future rationally

Darshana Padia, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Darshana Padia

Assistant Professor & Assistant Director, The Venture Fellowship Programme

PhD (Saurashtra University)

Research Interests: Social Media, Digital Media, Gender, Human Development.

Aditya Ghosh, Professor

Aditya Ghosh

Professor

PhD (University of Heidelberg)

Research Interests: Sustainability, Climate Change, Indigenous Environmental Knowledge and Heritage, Spatial Transformation, Multispecies Justice, Socioecological System, Environmental Humanities

Minal Pathak, Associate Professor | Ahmedabad University

Minal Pathak

Associate Professor

PhD (Gujarat University)

Research Interests: Climate Change Mitigation, Sustainable Development Implications of Climate Actions, Urban Climate Actions

Subhankar Saha

Assistant Professor

PhD (Indian Institute of Management Bangalore)

Research Interests: Healthcare Operations Management, Sustainable Operations Management, Agriculture Supply Chain Management

Deepti Sharma, Visiting Professor

Deepti Sharma

Assistant Professor

PhD (Indian Institute of Management Bangalore)

Research Interests: Public Policy and Management

Priyadarshi Shukla, Distinguished Professor | Ahmedabad University

Priyadarshi Shukla

Distinguished Professor; Chair, Global Centre for Environment and Energy

PhD (Stanford University)

Research Interests: Energy Efficiency, Energy-Environment Modelling, Renewable Technologies, Decentralised Planning, Integrated Assessment Modelling and Climate Change Policy Analysis.

Niraj Athavle, Professor of Practice of Management

Niraj Athavle

Professor of Practice of Management

PGDM (IIM Bangalore)

Research Interests: Global Markets, Fixed Income, Foreign Exchange, Derivatives, International Finance

Satish Deshpande, Professor of Practice of Management

Satish Deshpande

Professor of Practice of Management

Executive Fellow Programme in Management (Indian School of Business)

Research Interests: Pedagogy Tools for Reflective Learning Strategies, Disruptive Innovation, Private Equity Firm Strategy

Poonam Dugar, Assistant Dean & Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Poonam Dugar

Assistant Dean and Assistant Professor

PhD (Gujarat University), Chartered Accountant

Research Interests: Venture Capital/ Private Equity

Arun Gupta, Associate Professor

Arun Gupta

Associate Professor

PhD (Yale University)

Research Interests: Machine Learning and Agentic AI for Finance, Structured Finance / Hybrid Securities, Reinsurance, Valuation / Mergers and Acquisitions

Hetal Jhaveri, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Hetal Jhaveri

Assistant Professor

PhD (Sardar Patel University)

Research Interests: Financial Services, Banking, Entrepreneurial Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions.

Vaibhav Kadia, Assistant Professor & Associate Dean of Students | Ahmedabad University

Vaibhav Kadia

Assistant Professor, Academic Registrar

PhD(Ganpat University)

Research Interests: Finance, Accounting & Control.

Narendra Nath Kushwaha, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Narendra Nath Kushwaha

Assistant Professor

PhD (IIM Tiruchirappalli)

Research Interests: Auditing and Corporate Governance

Vinodh Madhavan, Associate Professor | Ahmedabad University

Vinodh Madhavan

Professor

PhD (Golden Gate University)

Research Interests: Nonlinear Time Series Analysis, Long Memory, Adaptive Market Hypothesis.

Parag Patel, Associate Professor | Ahmedabad University

Parag Patel

Associate Professor & Dean of the Undergraduate College

PhD (Gujarat University)

Research Interests: Equity Investment Decisions, Financial Services, Venture Funding

Binny Rawat, Senior Lecturer | Ahmedabad University

Binny Rawat

Senior Lecturer

PhD (Charusat University, Gujarat)

Research Interests: Financial Management, Trade Credit, Financial Services

Kinshuk Saurabh, Associate Professor | Ahmedabad University

Kinshuk Saurabh

Associate Professor

Fellow Programme in Management (IIM Ahmedabad)

Research Interests: Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, Family Firms, Mergers & Acquisition, Banking, Asset Pricing

Saumil Shah, Senior Lecturer | Ahmedabad University

Saumil Shah

Senior Lecturer

MBA (Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda)

Research Interests: Finance, Capital Markets, Behavioral Finance

Nimit Thaker, Lecturer | Ahmedabad University

Nimit Thaker

Lecturer

MCom (Gujarat University)

Research Interests: Corporate Governance, Direct and Indirect Taxes , Corporate Laws.

Vibha Tripathi, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Vibha Tripathi

Assistant Professor

PhD (Gujarat University)

Research Interests: Corporate Governance, Related Party transactions, Capital Structure of Companies, Cash holdings and Financial Restructuring.

Harnain Kaur Arora, Assistant Professor

Harnain Kaur Arora

Assistant Professor

PhD (Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad)

Research Interests: Personality, Whistleblowing at Work, Courage in Organisations, Impostor Phenomenon, Gender Studies

Amrita Bihani, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Amrita Bihani

Assistant Professor & Assistant Director, Family Business and Entrepreneurship Programme

PhD (CEPT University)

Research Interests: Talent Management, Employee Engagement

Jatin Christie, Senior Lecturer | Ahmedabad University

Jatin Christie

Senior Lecturer

PhD (Dharamsinh Desai University)

Research Interests: People Processes and Behaviour, Training Design and Training Effectiveness, Change Management Processes and Interventions, Pedagogy Innovations, Employee Experience and Employee Wellbeing.

Shobha Das

Shobha Das

Dean and Professor

PhD (University of Minnesota)

Research Interests: Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Technology, and Innovation

Vedant Dev, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Vedant Dev

Assistant Professor

PhD (IIM Ahmedabad)

Research Interests: Work Design, Human-AI Interaction, AI augmentation, Gamification in the workplace

Nilesh Jain, Associate Professor

Nilesh Jain

Associate Professor

PhD (Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi)

Research Interests: Industrial Organisation, Information Economics, Applied Microeconomic Theory, Economics of Organisation

Samvet Kuril, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Samvet Kuril

Assistant Professor

PhD (IIM Ahmedabad)

Research Interests: Management and Organisations.

Kunal Mankodi, Senior Lecturer | Ahmedabad University

Kunal Mankodi

Senior Lecturer

PhD (Ganpat University)

Research Interests: SME Competitiveness, Sustainability and Strategy; Social Entrepreneurship

Sandeep Salunke, Professor and Associate Dean

Sandeep Salunke

Professor and Associate Dean

PhD (University of Queensland)

Research Interests: Dynamic Capabilities, Service Innovation, Servitisation, Social Innovation, Internationalisation, Business Model Innovation, Digital Transformation

Deepti Sharma, Visiting Professor

Deepti Sharma

Assistant Professor

PhD (Indian Institute of Management Bangalore)

Research Interests: Public Policy and Management

Ekta Sharma, Associate Professor | Ahmedabad University

Ekta Sharma

Associate Professor

PhD (University of Rajasthan)

Research Interests: Organisational Behaviour, Human Resource Management, Ethics, Corporate Social responsibility,sustainability

Ramadhar Singh, Distinguished University Professor | Ahmedabad University

Ramadhar Singh

Distinguished University Professor

PhD (Purdue University)

Research Interests: Organisational Behavior, Psychology, Public Policy, Research Methods

Chirag Trivedi, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Chirag Trivedi

Assistant Professor

MPhil (Gujarat University)

Research Interests: Culture Studies, Minority Studies, Indian Classical Music, Creative Writing and Translation.

Bhanu Pratap Singh Choudhary | Assistant Professor

Bhanu Pratap Singh Choudhary

Assistant Professor

PhD (IIM Ahmedabad)

Research Interests: Elaboration Likelihood Model, Prospect Theory, Attitude Ambivalence, TMT and CXO role in Marketing Strategy

Kunal Mankodi, Senior Lecturer | Ahmedabad University

Kunal Mankodi

Senior Lecturer

PhD (Ganpat University)

Research Interests: SME Competitiveness, Sustainability and Strategy; Social Entrepreneurship

Bijal Mehta, Associate Professor | Ahmedabad University

Bijal Mehta

Associate Professor

PhD (Sardar Patel University)

Research Interests: Services Marketing & Society, Sociology of Technology, Digital Marketing, Smart Tourism, Sharing Economy, Digital Communication for Start-Ups and Service Firms

Ravi Miglani, Professor of Practice of Management | Ahmedabad University

Ravi Miglani

Professor of Practice of Management

PGPM (IIM Ahmedabad)

Research Interests: Marketing Research, Consumer Behaviour, Consumer Insights, Neuromarketing, Behavioural Economics, Ethnography

Prithwiraj Mukherjee, Associate Professor | Ahmedabad University

Prithwiraj Mukherjee

Associate Professor

PhD (ESSEC, France)

Research Interests: Digital Marketing, Agent-based Modeling, Behavioral Decision Making, Platform Exploitation, Generative Artificial Intelligence

Darshana Padia, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Darshana Padia

Assistant Professor & Assistant Director, The Venture Fellowship Programme

PhD (Saurashtra University)

Research Interests: Social Media, Digital Media, Gender, Human Development.

Mahendra Singh Rao, Associate Professor | Ahmedabad University

Mahendra Singh Rao

Associate Professor

PhD (XLRI Jamshedpur)

Research Interests: Numerical Cognition, Psychological Distance, Psychological Ownership, Regulatory Focus.

Sandeep Salunke, Professor and Associate Dean

Sandeep Salunke

Professor and Associate Dean

PhD (University of Queensland)

Research Interests: Dynamic Capabilities, Service Innovation, Servitisation, Social Innovation, Internationalisation, Business Model Innovation, Digital Transformation

Zalak Shah, Senior Lecturer | Ahmedabad University

Zalak Shah

Senior Lecturer

PhD (Gujarat University)

Research Interests: Consumer Behaviour, Branding, Bottom of the Pyramid and Rural Marketing.

Ramanathan Subramaniam, Associate Professor

Ramanathan Subramaniam

Associate Professor

PhD (University of Pittsburgh)

Research Interests: Applied Game Theory, Discrete Choice Models, Contract Theory

Sujo Thomas, Faculty | Ahmedabad University

Sujo Thomas

Senior Lecturer

PhD (Gujarat University)

Research Interests: Cause-related marketing, non-profit marketing, retailing, online consumer behaviour

Bhargav Adhvaryu, Professor | Ahmedabad University

Bhargav Adhvaryu

Professor & Chair, PhD Programme

PhD (University of Cambridge)

Research Interests: My research spans interrelated topics such as: urban analytical studies (morphology, form, spatial structure, transport networks, redevelopment potential, and socioeconomic phenomena); land use-transport interaction modelling for sustainable cities; public transport accessibility; localisation of SDG11; urban management and governance; urban transport infrastructure design; AI in urban planning

Md Shahrukh Anjum, Assistant Professor

Md Shahrukh Anjum

Assistant Professor

PhD (IIM Bangalore)

Research Interests: Operations Research, Combinatorial Optimisation, Network Design, Heuristics

Dinesh Barot, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Dinesh Barot

Assistant Professor

PhD (Gujarat University)

Research Interests: Reliability and Life-Testing, Bayesian Inferences, Big Data Analytics , Research Methodology.

Pankaj Chandra, Vice Chancellor and Ahmedabad University

Pankaj Chandra

Professor, Vice Chancellor and Chairman, Board of Management

PhD (The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)

Research Interests: Manufacturing Management, Supply Chain Coordination, Building Technological Capabilities

Amit Das, Professor

Amit Das

Professor & Senior Associate Dean, Graduate Programmes

PhD (University of Minnesota)

Research Interests: Data Science, Information Systems, and E-Business

Amarlal H Kalro, Professor Emeritus and Former Provost | Ahmedabad University

Amarlal H Kalro

Professor Emeritus and Former Provost

PhD (University of Minnesota)

Research Interests: Operations Management, OR Modeling, Irrigation & Water Management, Institution Building

Sanjoy Mukerji, Professor of Practice

Sanjoy Mukerji

Professor of Practice

PGDM (IIM Bangalore)

Research Interests: Project Management, Materials Management

Jinal Parikh, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Jinal Parikh

Assistant Professor

PhD (Dharamsinh Desai University)

Research Interests: Quantitative Techniques & Marketing.

Subhankar Saha

Assistant Professor

PhD (Indian Institute of Management Bangalore)

Research Interests: Healthcare Operations Management, Sustainable Operations Management, Agriculture Supply Chain Management

Amit Singh, Assistant Professor

Amit Singh

Assistant Professor

PhD (IIT Kharagpur)

Research Interests: Sentiment Analysis Applications, Social Media Analytics, Panel Data Modelling, ICT diffusion in SMEs, and Multi-Criteria Decision Making

Abhinandan Sinha, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Abhinandan Sinha

Assistant Professor

PhD (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata)

Research Interests: Political Economy (Formal Theory and Modeling), Theoretical Development Economics, Applied Microeconomic Theory, Decision Sciences

Devanath Tirupati, Executive Provost | Ahmedabad University

Devanath Tirupati

Professor and Executive Provost

PhD (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Research Interests: Operations and Supply Chain Management, Queueing Networks, Technology Management

Sachin Tiwari, Assistant Professor

Sachin Tiwari

Assistant Professor

PhD (IIM Indore)

Research Interests: Supply Chain Contracts, Optimisation in Operations Management, Sustainable Operations and Circular Economy, Game Theory

Bhaktida Satyendrabhai Trivedi, Assistant Professor | Ahmedabad University

Bhaktida Trivedi

Assistant Professor

PhD (Gujarat University)

Research Interests: Distributions, Misclassification, Inferential Statistics.

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Ahmedabad University
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Navrangpura, Ahmedabad 380009
Gujarat, India

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