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

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.