School of petrolium Managerment,PDPU India, Gandhinagar

Areas of Interest: Corporate Strategy, Social Responsibility, Management, Management of Higher Education, Energy Studies and Family Business Management.

Areas of Interest: Sustainable Marketing; Industrial Marketing; Sales & Distribution Management; Brand Management; Oil & Gas Management; Energy Policy & Regulations.

Brief Profile: Dr. Pramod Paliwal has over 25 years of corporate and academic experience. He has been engaged in teaching, research, consulting, publications and research guidance. He is a Fellow of The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), U.K. Dr. Paliwal has been featured in 30th Pearl Anniversary Edition of Marquis' Who Who in World, 2013. He has traveled internationally on academic and professional assignments in Energy Sector. Given his interest and work on Energy issues, International Crowdsourcing group Wikistrat has invited him on board as Honorary Senior Analyst-Energy.

Areas of Interest: 1.Understanding the role of Data processing and Information Systems in Business Decision making. 2. Data Science and Business Analytics for practitioners 3. Women Leadership in Indian organizations

Brief Profile: Dr. Tanushri Banerjee is Associate Professor at SPM, PDPU. She is also the Faculty Advisor, Business Analytics Teaching Lab at SPM and Chair MDP Programmes. She has co-Authored 2 books in Business Analytics by Sage Publications: 1. Weaving Analytics for Effective Decision Making 2017 2. Business Analytics: Text and Cases 2019. She has been awarded 'DISTINGUISHED WOMAN IN MANAGEMENT' - (Major Area of Study - Decision Science) 2019 by Venus International Foundation. Dr. Banerjee has done her BE (Electronic) from MSU Baroda, Masters in Management Informations Systems from UIC Chicago and PhD in Management from MSU Baroda.

Areas of Interest: Microeconomics, Game Theory, Decision Making Theory, Decision Theory, Mathematical (Methods for) Economics

Brief Profile: M. Stat (Hons.)-Indian Statistical Institute, 1981. Ph.D- University of Minnesota (Twin Cities), 1986.

Areas of Interest: Strategic HRM; High Performance Management Practices; Training Transfer; Recruitment Methods; Learning Methods

Brief Profile: Dr. Muduli has 23 years of experience in teaching and industry in the area of HRM. He is the Managing Editor of PDPU Journal of Energy and Management, a biannual UGC approved journal. His research publications are with Routledge, Sage, Wiley, Emerald publications. Dr. Muduli has organised various MDPs and training programmes in HRM.

Areas of Interest: Internationalization, Capability Building, Strategic Management, Operations Management, Oil and Gas Business Management

Brief Profile: Dr. Sudhir Yadav has more than 29 years of experience including about 7 years in industry and 22 years into academics. He is an engineering graduate and post graduate from Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), New Delhi. He has been with School of Petroleum Management, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India Since 2006. As an industry professional he has worked in Marketing and International Business division of various companies. He has been teaching courses related to Operations Management at SPM.

Areas of Interest: Teaching interests are Managerial Accounting, Management Accounting, Oil and Gas Accounting, Corporate Finance and Corporate Tax Planning. Current research interests are Forensic Accounting and Environmental Reporting.

Brief Profile: Dr. Akash Patel is B. Com. Gold Medalist from Gujarat University, post graduate with distinction from The M. S. University of Baroda and Ph. D. from Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University. He has 2 years of industry experience and more than 18 years of academic experience. He has publications in International Journals to his credit and has contributed chapters in books. He regularly participates and presents research papers in National and International Conferences. He has conducted Training Programs for Banking, Power and Oil & Gas industries. His teaching interests are Managerial Accounting, Management Accounting, Oil and Gas Accounting, Corporate Finance and Corporate Tax Planning. 

Areas of Interest: Fundamental and Strategic Financial Management, International Finance, Risk Management & Derivatives, Security Analysis and Portfolio Management

Brief Profile: Dr. Narayan Baser has more than 21 years of experience in teaching and research in the area of finance. He is basically Commerce Graduate and MBA in Finance. He passed his UGC NET Exam in 2000. He did his Ph. D. in Financial Management from North Gujarat University, Patan. Prior to Joining PDPU, he was employed with MBA program of National Institute of Cooperative Management, Gandhinagar and B K School of Business Management, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad. He has attended and presented papers at several National and International conferences and seminars. He has 20+ publications to his credit. He has also attended QIP and FDP organised by MDI, Gurgaon and IIM Calcutta and IIM Kozhikode. He has received state award for disabled employee from Govt. of Gujarat in 2008. He has also received "BEST SUBJECT TEACHER AWARD" from Higher Education Forum, Gujarat Chapter in 2015

Areas of Interest: Dr. Satish Pandey is currently working with School of Petroleum Management (SPM), Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University (PDPU), Gandhinagar as Associate Professor in Organizational Behaviour & HRM area, since August 2007. He has done Ph.D. in Psychology from Gurukul Kangri Vishwavidyalaya, Haridwar (Uttarakhand) in 1995. Prior to joining SPM, he has worked with reputed institutions like Mudra Institute of Communications Ahmedabad (MICA), Nirma Institute of Management- Ahmedabad , Institute of Banking Personnel Selection-Mumbai (IBPS) and BITS-Pilani. In his two decades’ academic journey, he has presented papers in national and international academic conferences; and published papers in refereed journals and edited books on topics related to stress management, personality, organizational culture, cross-cultural management, organizational turnaround, organizational learning, behaviour change communication and films in management classroom. 

Areas of Interest: His current areas of interest are executive stress, coping and issues related to executive health, job satisfaction and morale.

Areas of Interest: 1. Marketing of Petroleum Products & Energy Policy 2. Sales Management 3. Brand Management

Brief Profile: Prof. Kaushal Kishore is a Faculty of Marketing and Energy Studies at the School of Petroleum Management, PDPU, Gandhinagar, Gujarat since December 2009. He has been teaching courses mainly Marketing of Petroleum Products, Marketing Management, Brand Management, Sales & Distribution Management and International Business Management. Prof. Kishore has done PhD in Management (Branding in Petroleum Retailing) and also passed the UGC-NET examination for Assistant Professorship. Prof. Kishore was the University topper at the Univeristy of Pune for the course P.G. Diploma in Materials & Logistics Management. Prof. Kishore has attended 2nd & 3rd Doctoral Consortium as a 'Consortium Fellow' organized by the Academy of Indian Marketing (AIM) and American Marketing Association (AMA), Sheth Foundation in India and Dubai. He was selected at the All India Level to attend the 'International Visitors Leadership Programme (IVLP-2015) on the U.S.A Foreign Policy and Energy Security' sponsored by the Department of State, U.S.A. Prof. Kishore has overall 9 years of experiences in academics. He was also associated with the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A) as an Academic Associate in Business Policy area. Prof. Kishore has also significantly contributed in enriching academic literature by publishing nine research papers/articles in leading journals/energy journals and conference proceedings in the area of Petroleum Retailing, Branding & Energy Policy in addition to teaching in the MDPs/In-company programs. He has successfully coordinated 'International Conference on Energy & Infrastructure Management (ICEIM)' as the organizing secretary of the conferences.

Areas of Interest: His research interests are in the fields of strategy implementation, management control and finance.

Brief Profile: Prof. Lalit K Khurana has over 19 years of experience in both industry and academics, more than two years of which are in industry and subsequently 17 years in academics. He has nine publications to his credit in journal and as chapters in book. He has participated in several national and international conferences and presented 12 research papers. He has once won the best paper award and also chaired technical sessions in conferences. He is member of several professional bodies - SMS(USA), AIMA, ISTD, ISTE, SMFI. He has participated in several management and faculty development programmes.