INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, CUTTACK
(A constituent college of BPUT, Govt. of Odisha)
साधनायां सिद्धि (Perfection Through Practice)
(A constituent college of BPUT, Govt. of Odisha)
साधनायां सिद्धि (Perfection Through Practice)
All Accepted and registered papers will be submitted for publication in a book by a reputed publishing house/ Empirical Economics Letters (indexed in ABDC).
Associate Professor, Directorate of Learning and Development, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Tamil Nadu, INDIA
Dr. R. Lakshmipathy is an accomplished academic and researcher with a Ph.D. from Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT). Currently serving as an Associate Professor at the Directorate of Learning and Development, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, he is actively involved in advancing education and research.
With over 50+ publications in reputed journals, Dr. Lakshmipathy holds an Indian patent and contributes to the scientific community as an Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports (Nature Journal) and Associate Editor-in-Chief of Mari Papel y Corrugado. He also plays a key role as the Programme Leader for the Cambridge International Certificate in Teaching and Learning and serves as a Board Member of the Society of Chemical and Synthetic Biology.
His expertise spans academia, research, and editorial leadership, making him a distinguished figure in his field.
Associate Professor, Duy Tan University (ranked 495th in QS 2024), Vietnam
Dr Subhankar Das is a senior researcher and associate professor at Duy Tan University (ranked 495th in QS 2024), with over 15 years of collective experience in academia and research, helping students from Indian, African, and ASEAN universities excel. Over the years, his solo and collaborative projects at Duy Tan have garnered recognition from various government agencies. He has worked on 1 Government sponsored project as a PI. He has published in 14 Web of Science (SSCI, SCI, SCIE, ESCI) and 59 Scopus-Elsevier, Emerald, Taylor & Francis journals, covering topics such as metaverse, marketing management, waste management, AI, digitalisation, blockchain, and analytics. He served as editor and author of nine Scopus-indexed books, with 48 book chapters published by reputable publishers such as Springer, Elsevier, Palgrave, CRC, and IGI. He is a board member of journals such as JHTT (Emerald), JHTE, and IJHCI (Taylor & Francis). He also acts as a PhD supervisor/co-supervisor for three universities in Italy, Poland, and Kenya.
H.O.D., MBA, Associate Professor, IMIT, Cuttack, INDIA
Dr Chandrakanta Sahoo is an Associate Professor of HR at the Institute of Management and Information Technology (IMIT), Cuttack. He holds a PhD in Business Administration from Utkal University, with research in Corporate Social Responsibility, along with an MBA in HRM and Marketing, an MA in English, and UGC-NET (Management) qualification. With over 17 years of teaching and research experience, he specializes in Organizational Behavior, HR, Business Research Methods, and data analytics tools like Power BI and Google Data Studio.
Dr Sahoo is actively involved in institutional quality initiatives (NAAC, NBA, IQAC, ISO) and serves in leadership roles for academic audits, conferences, and curriculum development. He is an ISO-certified internal auditor and an AICTE-certified Universal Human Values teacher, with memberships in professional bodies like the International Society for Development and Sustainability and NHRD Network.
An accomplished researcher, he has numerous publications and book chapters focusing on CSR, employee engagement, sustainable development, organizational excellence, and tourism. His profile reflects a blend of academic expertise, administrative leadership, and active scholarly contribution to management education.
Professor, Department of Economics, Rajshahi University, Bangladesh
Professor Md Abdul Wadud is a teacher of the Department of Economics, Rajshahi University. He joined as a lecturer in 1994 and has been promoted to a full Professor in 2006. Since then, he has been serving as a Professor of the Department of Economics. Further, he has been promoted to a Grade 1 Professor in 2018. Moreover, he has served as visiting Professor in Chandigarh, India in February, 2025. He obtained first classes with first positions in both B.S.S. (Honours) and M.S.S. in Economics Examinations from the Rajshahi University. In 1999 he obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom in Economics. He is experienced in the use of advanced qualitative and quantitative research methodologies.
He has to his credit a wide range of research works; his papers have been published in, among others, Applied Economics, Journal of Developing Areas, Indian Economic Review, Pakistan Journal of Applied Economics, Journal of Bangladesh Studies (USA), Economics Bulletin (USA). Bangladesh Economic Studies, Empirical Economics Letters, Journal of the Institute of Bangladesh Studies, Bangladesh Journal of Political Economy. He has been serving as the Managing Editor of Empirical Economics Letters, a monthly international journal of economics and finance, since 2002 and Editor-in-Chief of Empirical Economics Review, a quarterly international journal of Economics and finance since 2007. His main research interests include, among others, microeconometrics, and time series economics, inclusive growth and development agricultural economics, microcredit and food security, efficiency and productivity analysis. He led to and worked in various research projects funded by RDRS, DFID, SANDEE, IFC, Institute of Microfinance and The World Bank. He presented research papers in various national and international conferences and workshops at home and abroad. He is a member of various national and international professional associations of economics.