Sh. Dhamendra Pradhan Shri Dharmendra Pradhan Is Minister Of
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BIO SKETCH OF RESOURCE PERSONS Sh. Dhamendra Pradhan Shri Dharmendra Pradhan is Minister of State - Independant Charge, Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas. He is an M.A.(Anthropology) , Utkal University, Bhubaneswar. He has started as an Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) activist in the year 1983,was elected President,Talcher College Students' Union 1985; was actively involved in student and youth movements throughout Odisha. Sir has held the positions as secretary A.B.V.P as well as National Secretary for A.B.V.P (1995), B.J.P (2002)and Bhartiya Janata Yuva Morcha (2006), President BJYM Odisha (2001). As president successfully campaigned on the issue of religion based reservations and other related issues; Party Incharge i) BJP Tripura 2004 and BJP Chattisgarh 2008; National President BJYM 2004 ; National General Secretary , BJP 2010 ; was Election In Charge of Bihar State; Organisational In Charge of party affairs in the States of Karnataka , Uttarakhand , Jharkhand and Odisha ; Awarded Best Legislator Award , the Utkalmani Gopabandhu Pratibha Samman, 2002-2003. He has been working on several issues concerning the youth, such as Unemployment and lack of skill based education, rehabilitation and resettlement of farmers, displaced persons and other backward classes. He has played a major role in mobilising the youth in Politics and actively working to create better leaders for tomorrow. Reading books on history & Politics and tracking the changing social trends. Mr. Ashish Chauhan Mr. Ashish Chauhan currently works as the MD & CEO of BSE (Bombay Stock Exchange), the first stock exchange of Asia. He is one of the founders of India's National Stock Exchange (“NSE”) where he worked from 1992 to 2000. At NSE, he was instrumental in setting up the first screen based trading in India, equities market and first commercial satellite communications network for India.He is best known as the father of modern financial derivatives in India. He also created several path breaking frameworks including Nifty index, NSE certifications in financial markets etc. From 2000 to 2009,he worked as the President and Chief Information Officer of Reliance group and also acted as the CEO of the cricket team Mumbai Indians in its formative years. Mr. Ashish has won several International and Indian awards including CEO of the Year, Diamond Sabre Awards 2015, Hongkong Indian Business Leader of the Year, Horasis Interlaken/Switzerland 2015 RH Patil Award for Excellence in Financial Services, June 2015 Distinguished Alumnus Award, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, 2014 Best CEO in the Financial Markets in the Asia Pacific by the Asian Banker, 2014 Zee Business Awards- Special contribution in Commodities and Capital Market, 2013 TOP 50 CIOs, Information Week, US, 2009 He holds a B Tech in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Bombay and a PGDM from IIM Kolkata. He is a Distinguished Visiting professor at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. Due to his work in various fields spanning a quarter of a century, he is considered one of the foremost experts in the fields of Information Technology, Finance, Markets, Micro structure of markets, cricket, telecommunications, organized retail, oil and gas, refining and Indian social issues. He is the Chairperson on the Board of Governors (BoGs) of the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Manipur. He is an Advisor to the Technical Evaluation Committee set up by the Department of Posts for Postal Bank and also a part of several other committees of World Federation of Exchanges (“WFE”), Government of India (“GOI”), Reserve Bank of India (“RBI”), Securities and Exchange Board of India (“SEBI”),Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), Confederation of Indian Industry(“CII”), Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (“FICCI”), Indian Merchants Chamber (“IMC”), India UK council (“UKIBC”) etc. He is also associated with several NGOs and education institutions. His quotes and writings have been published in various newspapers, magazines and journals in India and abroad. Smt. Savita Gupta Mrs Savita Gupta did her M A in English from Banaras Hindu University. She is an active member of Board of Director and very gracefully serving as Vice chairperson of S. Chand Group for years. She is the chairperson of the governing body of Shyam Lal College since last two years. Under her guidance and leadership, the college held its Golden Jublee Celebration in 2014. She also spearheads the groups CSR initiatives. she is well respected and regarded for her acumen in astutely handling anything that she gets involved in. Dr. Arindam Banik Dr. Arindam Banik has been with IMI since February 01, 1994. From 1981 until February, 1986 he was with the American Express Bank, Dhaka in the foreign exchange department. He is a member of the American Economic Association, Euro-Asia Management Studies Association, Global Awareness Society International, USA. Taught International finance, Development Economics, Development Planning and Project Appraisal and Macroeconomics at the Department of Economics, University of West Indies, Barbados during the period 2001- 2005(June) as a visiting Faculty. He holds the Associated Cement Companies Chair Person in International finance and Business at IMI. The Institute established a research unit entitled, “Prospect of Indian Cement Companies’ Business in the Neighbouring Countries” with a generous ACC endowment under his leadership. Author of more than 100 scientific articles on international economics, macroeconomics and economic development. His articles have appeared in Journal of International Development, International Journal of Social Economics, Management Decision, Economic and Political Weekly, Indian Economic Review ,Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics, Bangladesh Development Studies, Savings and Development and other professional journals. His opinion pieces have been published in leading newspapers including The Barbados Advocate, Business Authority, The Daily Star, Economic Times, Hindu Business Line, Anandabazar Patrika and Desh. He is the International Advisory Board member of Asian Business and Management and the member, editorial Board of e-Social Sciences. His latest book is “Foreign Capital Inflows to China, India and the Caribbean-Trends, Assessments and Determinants” (co-authored with Pradip K Bhaumik, Palgrave-Macmillan, London, 2006). Has been a consultant to a number of Indian companies, Government of India and multilateral institutions, including Associated Cement Companies, Ministry of Rural Development, World Bank, ILO-SAAT, IDRC, CIDA, and UNIDO. He has worked as consultant in St. Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, Bangladesh and Nepal. His current research includes Global Financial Imbalances, International finance, Poverty Reduction Strategies, Technology Transfer and Skill Development in developing economies. Prof. Kaisa Sorsa Prof. Sorsa is currently the Principal Lecturer, Faculty of Business, ICT and Chemical engineering, Turku University of Applied Sciences, Finland. She has also worked as Adjunct Professor with University of Turku and University of Eastern Finland. She does research on the accountability of companies, self-governance and certifications. Her areas of interest comprises Legal competence, Sustainable development, Circular economy, Business competence, Competence in contracts, Systemic innovations, Research competence, RDI competence, Corporate responsibility. She believes that public value is the objective of public managers to create value for different stakeholders, analogue to shareholder value maximization in the private sector. Public value is an ongoing process like value creation in other fields of economy as well. In my view, public value also needs to internalize sustainability issues. Mr. Anuj Dayal Prof. Anuj Dayal is Executive Director (CC), Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, India. Prof. V.K.Kaul Prof. V.K.Kaul is former head Department of Business Economics, University of Delhi South Campus and former Dean, Faculty of Applied Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Delhi. Prof. Kaul has a vast experience of 38years in Teaching , Research, Consultancy. He has successfully supervised 13 Ph.D. and 20 M.Phil research scholars so far. His research papers have been published in over 32 journals and books of repute of India, U.K. Australia, South Korea and U.K. Sir has also made presentations in India, Hong Kong, France of his areas of interest. Prof. Kaul is also an honourable recipient of Indo-Canadian Fellowship called ‘Development Studies Fellowship’ and also from G20 Korean Global Leader Fellowship. In January 2001, he was appointed as a member of Expert Committee to Study Impact of WTO on Agriculture and Small Scale Industries. Prof. Swapan Kr. Bala Dr. Swapan Kumar Bala Dr. Swapan Kumar Bala, FCMA has been working as a Professor, Department of Accounting & Information Systems, University of Dhaka since 19 January 2011. He joined the University of Dhaka as a Lecturer of Accounting on 10 July 1991. He completed M.Phil. equivalent thesis-based Advanced Course on Economics and Quantitative Techniques from the Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies (BIDS), Dhaka. He obtained the Certificate in International Financial Reporting Standards in September 2008 from The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW), UK. He did his Ph.D. on Value Added Taxation in Bangladesh: A Critical Appraisal from the Department of Accounting & Information Systems, University of Dhaka in December 2010. He frequently works