Vitae
Education
PhD Economics: Dept of Economics, Stony Brook University, New York, USA, 2005
MA Economics: Specialization in International Economics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India, 2000.
Bachelor of Science: First Class Honors in Economics, University of Calcutta, St. Xavier’s College, India, 1998.
Experience
Reader, Department of Business Transformation, Surrey Business School, University of Surrey, UK. (Aug 2020 - present)
Senior Lecturer, Strategy and International Business, Kent Business School, University of Kent, UK. (Jan 2019 - July 2020)
Senior Lecturer, Management Science and Entrepreneurship, Essex Business School, University of Essex, UK. (July 2018 - Dec 2018)
Lecturer, Management Science and Entrepreneurship, Essex Business School, University of Essex, UK. (August 2012 - June 2018)
Senior Scientist, Mathematics and Informatics Group, Unilever Research and Development, UK. (May 2011 - July 2012).
Research Scientist, Mathematics and Informatics Group, Unilever Research and Development, UK. (August 2005 - April 2011).
Course Instructor, Department of Economics, Stony Brook University, New York. (May 2003 – July 2005 ). Taught the following undergraduate courses in the Department of Economics: Introductory Microeconomics, Introductory Macroeconomics, Game Theory
Teaching Assistant, Department of Economics, Stony Brook University, New York. (August 2000 – May 2003) for undergraduate, Masters and Phd courses in the Dept of Economics, Stony Brook University
Intern, North-East Marketing Unit, PepsiCo India Pvt. Ltd. (June 1996 - December 1996). Analysis of economic and sociological factors affecting Pepsi's business in West Bengal, India.
Grants and Funded Projects
Principal Investigator, "Exploring the complexity of universities' knowledge exchange activities: Looking beyond currently outcomes", Society for Research in Higher Education Research Award, 2018-19. (£10,000)
Principal Investigator, "The dynamic impact of social media activity and networks on firm-level indicators: A longitudinal study", British Academy Small Grants Scheme, 2018-19. (£10,000)
Named Researcher, ESRC Business and Local Government Data Research Center, 2014-2019, ESRC Big Data Network. (Total award ~£5.5 million)
Principal Investigator, “Economic Impact of the University of Essex on the Regional and National Economy”, The Vice Chancellor’s Office, University of Essex, 2015. (£10,000)
Principal Investigator, "Intellectual Property Management by Centers of Higher Education - A Comparative Study of India and the UK", JNU-Essex Development Fund (JEDF), 2013-2014. (£5000)
Knowledge Exchange and Engagement
Consultant for WIPO on a project which involves writing a manual on incentives for university researchers and managers to encourage commercialization and engagement activities.
Visiting Researcher at King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Centre (KAPSARC), 6 months between 2017 and 2018.
Invited Lectures, workshops, Events
Effects of University Funding on Knowledge Exchange Strategies. CIMR Debates and Workshops on Public Policy, Birkbeck, University of London, 26 May 2021.
Strategies for Knowledge Exchange in a Changing Higher Education Landscape. Society for Research in Higher Education (SRHE), 09 September 2019. Funded by SRHE.
Commercialisation of University Science: Motivations and Support. Workshop, The Royal Society of Arts, 30 July 2019.
From Cases to General Principles: Theory Development through Agent Based Modeling, Symposium II: Best Practice in Agent Based Modeling for Theory Development. Organized by V Grimm, I Lorscheid, U Berger, M Meyer. The Volkswagon Foundation, Hanover, 2019.
International Perspectives on Measuring and Evaluating Knowledge Exchange. Workshop organized by Dr Federica Rossi, University of Birkbeck, 25 March 2019.
Bringing Data to Life for Policy and Practice. Annual Conference of the ESRC Business and Local Government Data Research Centre, November 2018.
Workshop on Integrated Approaches to Decentralized Electricity Transitions, Brussels, October 2018. Workshop organized by KAPSARC.
Panel Discussion on Metrics for Knowledge Exchange, Triple Helix Conference Manchester, September 2018. Organized by Dr Elvira Uyarra, University of Manchester.
From Cases to General Principles: Theory Development through Agent Based Modeling, Symposium I: State of the Art and Epistemological Perspectives on Theory Development. Organized by V Grimm, I Lorscheid, U Berger, M Meyer. The Volkswagon Foundation, Hanover, 2018.
Managing in the Age of the Sharing Economy: Exploring the Antecedents and Performance Consequences for Organizations. Workshop organized by Professor Zaheer Khan, Kent Business School, July 2018.
"Social Simulations in Business", ESSA Summer School 2013, Hamburg University of Technology, Hamburg, July 2013.
As member of Expert Panel in ESSA@Work, European Social Simulation Association Conference, Salzburg, 2012.
"Social Networks and Behaviour - Insights and Applications", COMNET Workshop on Social Networks and Communications, Queen Mary University, London, February 2012.
"Predicting Volatile Markets - Reach and Limits", Lecture, ESSA Summer School 2011, Surrey University, July 2011
“Predicting Volatile Markets”, Guest Lecture, Department of Economics, University of Reading, Reading, February 2011
“Modeling Brand Competition – An Agent Based Approach”, Guest Lecture, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, December 2010
“Modeling discrete events: Do events in the past leave fingerprints for the future?”, CICADA Industrial Workshop, University of Manchester, 2009.
Conference Presentations (2015 and later)
Internationalization in Emerging Market MNEs: A Resource Based Perspective on the Role of Innovation and its Limitations, Academy of International Business – UK Chapter, April 2021.
Moving Beyond the Internationalization-Performance Relationship: Emerging Complexity, Institutional Asymmetries and Regional Dyads, to be presented in Strategic Management Society (SMS) Annual Conference 2019, Minneapolis, USA.
Moving Beyond the Internationalization-Performance Relationship: Emerging Complexity, Institutional Asymmetries and Regional Dyads, Academy of International Business (AIB), 2019, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Does Signaling Matter for Knowledge Exchange in Emerging Economies? A Study of Indian Universities, XVI Triple Helix Conference, 2018, Manchester, United Kingdom.
Does distance matter? Impact of geographic and product diversification and their speeds on performance, Strategic Management Society (SMS) Annual Conference, October 2017, Houston, USA.
Interventions in social networks, Conference on Complex Systems (CCS) 2015, Arizona, USA.