SPEAKERS
Prof. Sanjay Kallapur
ISB, Hyderabad
Professor Sanjay Kallapur joined the Indian School of Business in 2005 from the Krannert School of Management, Purdue University, where he was a tenured associate professor. He has also taught at Harvard University, the University of Arizona, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, University of California at Irvine, and the National University of Singapore.
Professor Kallapur researches on financial and managerial accounting, auditing, and risk management. He has published in each of the top three accounting journals and his papers have been cited over 3,000 times (Google Scholar) and in regulatory policy documents in India and the UK. He is currently working on scientific inference in accounting research beyond the use of p-values.
He has been an editor of The Accounting Review from 2008 to 2011, the first person from outside North America to be appointed to that position. He has served as an ad-hoc reviewer for almost all the major accounting journals, and is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, and the Journal of Financial Reporting.
Dr Vinish Kumar Kathuria
IDS Jaipur
Dr Vinish Kumar Kathuria, Director of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Jaipur, is an alumnus of NIT Kurukshetra. He is on lien from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, where he was Shailesh J. Mehta, Chair Professor at SJMSOM of IIT Bombay. He is in the teaching and research profession since 1998 after his PhD in Economics from IGIDR, an RBI funded institute. At IIT Bombay, he was Professor-in-charge (PIC) of Bank of Baroda Innovation Centre (BoBIC) from Nov. 2019 to Sep. 2023.
His teaching and research interests are in Macroeconomics, Industrial, Environment and Energy Economics. Before joining IIT Bombay, he was on a Fulbright Senior Researcher fellowship at the University of Colorado, Boulder (USA). His publications are in several reputed international journals including Research Policy, Applied Economics, Energy Policy, Journal of Development Studies, Journal of Comparative Economics, World Development, Oxford Economic Papers, Ecological Economics, among others.
He has pursued his post-doc from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, in the area of Environmental Economics and a PhD internship from UNU/INTECH, Maastricht, The Netherlands . UNESCO short-listed his thesis for its Management of Social Transformation (MOST) award in 2000-01 . In 2012, he was awarded the Mahalanobis Memorial Medal (National) Award 2010 in the area of Quantitative Economics by The Indian Econometric Society (TIES). In a recent paper in 2016, he was ranked as the top researcher in economics among all business school researchers in the country and featured in the top 5% of researchers of business schools across India. In December 2015, the NIT Kurukshetra Alumni Association awarded him the ‘Distinguished Alumnus Award’ in the field of Education. He has also served as a Member of the Standing Committee on Economics Statistics, Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (MoSPI), GoI from Dec. 2019 to Nov. 2022.