Neena Sondhi is the Shashi Budhiraja Chair Professor for Management Research at International Management Institute (IMI) New Delhi. Sondhi also currently holds the portfolio of Dean Research, Accreditation and Regulatory Affairs at IMI New Delhi. An alumnus and a merit holder from the Faculty of Arts, University of Delhi, her areas of expertise are consumer psychology, behaviour, marketing research and luxury marketing. An avid researcher, with a diverse experience of over 25 years in teaching, research and consultancy, she has to her credit more than 50 publications: peerreviewed international and national journals of repute and case studies with teaching notes with international case clearing houses. Her co-authored book titled Research Methodology: Concepts and Cases has been widely adopted in prestigious business schools across the country and is rated as one of the top 25 books in management education. She has been felicitated for her academic and professional work by various national and international bodies. Ramakrushna Panigrahi is a Professor in the area of Economics at IMI Bhubaneswar. His PhD is in the area of environmental economics and green national income accounting from Institute for Social and Economic Change (ISEC), Bengaluru, a premier social science ICSSR research institute in India. His MPhil in Applied Economics is in the area of agricultural economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU, 1995). He has completed his Master’s in Economics from the University of Hyderabad (UoH, 1993). He graduated from Utkal University with a distinction in Economics (Honours) in the year 1991. His teaching interests include managerial economics, macroeconomic theory and policies, international business and geopolitics. In addition to teaching, he is an active researcher in the area of economics, particularly development economics. He has published a number of research papers in refereed journals of high repute such as Journal of International Development and Journal of Human Development. He has written bestselling case studies that are published by IVEY. He has over 20 years of teaching, research and consulting experience in the area of economics. Miao Pang is a Senior Research Fellow at Sichuan Academy of Social Sciences (SASS). She currently works in the Institute of Rural Economy of SASS with her major in forest resource management and has 25 years of expertise in rural policy, resource management and ecological construction. She has completed two National-sponsored projects on ecological compensation and community adaptation on climate change in ecologically-vulnerable regions. She has also completed over 20 provincial and international research projects with governments and many NGOs. She has published over 6 monographs and more than 40 papers in relevant research fields.Rajashri Chatterjee is Assistant Professor (Finance and Accounting) at IMI Kolkata. She holds a doctorate from the University of Burdwan, West Bengal, India. She completed her MCom from the University of Calcutta and MBA from Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology, West Bengal. Prior to joining IMI Kolkata, she worked as Finance Executive at Rabindranath Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences and AMRI Hospitals Ltd in Kolkata. She has contributed articles for journals of eminence, viz. Global Business Review and The Chartered Accountant, and also written for a Bengali daily, Sangbad Pratidin. She has co-authored book chapters and has papers to her credit that have been presented in conferences in India and abroad. She has organized a few conferences at IMI Kolkata and has also acted as a moderator for a webinar on the COVID-19 crisis. She is the Editorial Manager of IMI Konnect, the scholarly management publication of IMI Kolkata and has also contributed articles for the same.
