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RCBS Faculty

ANN MARY JOSE
Email-ID : annmary@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : PhD

Ann Mary Jose completed her PhD on the topic “A Study on Spatial Inequalities and Policy Responses in India”, Department of Economic and Finance, Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR), Chennai, which was then affiliated to University of Madras. She holds an Integrated Masters degree in Economics from Central University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Telangana. She is UGC NET qualified. Also, she has been worked as a Research Assistant at Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS), Hyderabad, Telangana. Her research focuses on various types of inequalities persist in Indian society and the effectiveness of different policy initiatives to tackle it. Her research interest is in the area of development economics, public policy, impact evaluation studies and open macro-economics. Currently, she has been working on issues related to gender inequality and wage differentials among Indian wage earners. She has publications in Journal of Public affairs, Economic & Political Weekly, Indian journal of economics etc, and has papers under review in various reputed journals.

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Abraham Babu
Email-ID : abraham@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

He has an industry experience spanning over nine years which includes a three year stint in Kenya His teaching experience runs into seventeen years. He holds a PhD in Economics, an M.Phil in Economics and has an M.S in Development Economics. His doctoral thesis was on the study of Foreign Direct Investment in India since 1991. Micro Economics and Development Economics are his forte. He has attended the International Programme on Development of Management Perspectives at the Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata and Faculty Development Programme in Management at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He was part of the team which conducted a training programme for Bank Muscat, Oman and was a visiting faculty at KATHO University College, Kortrijk, Belgium.

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Abraham Joseph
Email-ID : abrahamjoseph@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : FCA

An expert accounting, financial management and spreadsheet modelling teacher with professional and teaching experience in the UAE and India. Currently teaching postgraduate students of business administration.

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Aby Abraham
Email-ID : abyabraham@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : FPM

DOJ: 07-12-2015

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Ajay Lunawat
Email-ID : ajay@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : FCA, PhD

DOJ: 14-10-2019

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Ancy Sara Philip
Email-ID : ancy@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

Ancy Sara Philip holds a PhD in Economics from Curtin University Australia and an MPhil in Economics from Hyderabad Central University.  Prior to joining Rajagiri, she has worked as a guest faculty in Curtin University Malaysia and as a lecturer in SCMS-Cochin. Her research focuses on household and intrahousehold decision-making in Global South, Control and ownership of economic assets, economic policy debates on gendered aspects of wellbeing and methodological aspects of mixed method design. She has presented research papers in various international conferences including ACSPRI Social science Methodology conference of 2020. She has research experience coordinating and participating in research activities while working in Centre for Public Policy, Kochi. She has also completed various research training programmes from e-Grad school of Queensland University.

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Angela Susan Mathew
Email-ID : angela@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

Angela completed her PhD in Information Systems from Department of Management Studies, IIT Delhi. She is UGC NET qualified. Prior to Rajagiri, she was working as Senior Faculty (Online) with Eaton Business School. Her research interests include e-governance and citizen engagement. Her teaching interests include Management Information System, E-business and Business Analytics.  She has previously worked with Rajagiri Business School and represented RBS in the International Staff Week at Vives University, Belgium in 2016.

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Anto Joseph
Email-ID : anto@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : PhD

DOJ: 04-05-2020

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Anu Antony
Email-ID : anuantony@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

DOJ: 03-01-2024

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Arun A Elias
Email-ID : arunelias@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : PhD in Management - Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Prof. Arun Abraham Elias is the Director and Dean of Rajagiri Business School in Kochi, Kerala, India. He has previously held senior leadership positions as the Dean of the College of Business, Hospitality and Tourism Studies at Fiji National University and various roles, including Associate Dean (International and Accreditation), and MBA Director at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Academically, Prof Elias is a PhD in Management from Victoria University of Wellington and holds two Master degrees—one in Industrial Engineering and Management from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur and the other in Agricultural Engineering from Allahabad University. Prof. Elias has an extensive publication record, with recent articles pertaining to systems thinking, stakeholder analysis, and sustainable supply chain management. Additionally, he has engaged in various academic roles such as being a mentor with AASCB, a panel member of AMBA Accreditation Panel, and a fellow at the New Zealand-India Research Institute. His research and teaching expertise lies in systems thinking and modelling, stakeholder management and environmental conflict management.

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Arun George
Email-ID : arungeorge@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : MBA

DOJ: 07-07-2014

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Aviral Tiwari
Email-ID : aviral@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Postdoc

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/aviral-kumar-tiwari/home

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Bala Subramanian R
Email-ID : bala@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : FPM

Bala Subramanian R has overall 15 years of experience in academic and two years in industry. He has completed Fellow Program in Management specialized in OB area. His doctoral thesis examines the role of employees’ gratitude and team performance. He has conducted training for the employees of TVS, India Post, NALCO, and Prachar Bharati, Odisha.

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Bejoy John Thomas
Email-ID : bejoy@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

DOJ: 01-06-2013

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Binoy Joseph
Email-ID : binoyjoseph@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : L. L. B, M.A (PM&IR), Ph.D

Dr. Binoy Joseph has extensive expertise in the areas of Employee Resourcing, Performance Management, Reward Management and HR Accounting and Auditing and his core research interest lies in HRM Innovations. He has had professional experience in the hospitality industry. He has been a Visiting International Scholar at Western Michigan University, USA, and was also engaged in research on Employee Stock Option Plan and Corporate Performance. He has received his doctoral degree from Cochin University of Science and Technology in the topic "Innovative Human Resource Practices and HR Outcomes in Software Firms. He has received the prestigious AUDI Professorship 2013 Fellowship. He made a presentation in Audi Company in Ingolstadt Germany on 'People Management Challenges for German Managers in India'. He also took a course ' International Human Resource Management' for the students in Catholic University, Ingolstadt, Germany.

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Brahmadev Panda
Email-ID : rahmadev@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

Dr. Brahmadev has done his full time Ph.D. degree in finance from National Institute of Technology (NIT) Rourkela. He holds MCOM, MBA and MPhil in commerce prior to his doctoral degree. He is the recipient of the doctoral research fellow from the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi. His Ph.D. research focused on the effect ownership structure on firm performance and liquidity. His research interest includes corporate finance, corporate governance and financial market. He has published research papers in many national and international journals of repute. He has presented his research works at IIMA, IIMB and IIMR. He has published case studies at Case Center, UK and Sage. He has attended many faculty development programs and workshops conducted by IIM Kozhikode and NIT Rourkela. He has around 11 years of experience consisting of both industry and academia. He has taught accounting and finance papers to BBA, PGDM and MBA students. He has trained corporate executives of West Coal Fields from Coal India Ltd. He has worked with institutions like IMIS Bhubaneswar, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) Bhopal and Symbiosis Institute of Business Studies (SIBM) prior to joining with Rajagiri Business School.

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Deepak Babu
Email-ID : deepak@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : MBA

DOJ: 03-02-2012

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Dipti Lunawat
Email-ID : dipti@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : CA

Teaching in finance domain in the areas of accounting and finance. She has 13+ years of teaching experience in finance related subjects for ACCA, CA, MBA & PGDM. Expertise soft skill trainer for newly qualified professionals. Chief Founder & Mentor, EDUPORT Career Solutions Private Limited. She has worked as an Audit executive in Ernst and Young, Chennai. She was the first Program Co-ordinator for Orientation and GMCS for Gurgaon Branch of ICAI.  Faculty at Gurgaon, Amravati, Raipur & Bhilai Branch of ICAI for GMCS and Orientation, also worked as a senior content developer for Educomp Solutions (P) Ltd.  Her teaching interests are Financial Accounting, Business Law, Cost and Management Accounting, and Corporate Finance.She is also a Guest Lecture at Artevelde University, Ghent Belgium.

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Fr. Francis Sebastian CMI
Email-ID : fr.francis@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

Rev. Dr. Francis Sebastian CMI is the Assistant Director of the Rajagiri Business School and Rajagiri College of Social Sciences (Valley Campus). Fr. Francis received his PhD in neuromarketing and completed MBA from VIT Business School. He is an engineering graduate in Bio-informatics. He has completed FDP from IIM-A, and ESP from Catholic 
University Lille, France. He is  a well-known resource person in the field of education, entrepreneurship, SDG and social marketing. 
He has been a visiting international scholar at Padua University, Italy; Vives University, Belgium; Catholic  University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany; Western Michigan University, USA; Nazareth College, Maryland, USA; and Pontifical Catholic University, Quito, Ecuador, NCKU, Taiwan. He has presented papers in various International Management conferences as well as  in the international think-tank forum KIEP (Seoul). He has published many research articles and case studies in various reputed peer-reviewed journals. Fr. Francis has domain expert in the areas of Neuromarketing, social marketing  and consumer engagement. He has undertaken various consultancy projects for CHAI and many other organizations.

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Fr.Reginold
Email-ID : reginold@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : MBA

He holds Two Master degrees in philosophy and MBA HR. He has M.Phil in Human resource management from Bharathiar University, Coimbatore.  He cleared UGC -NET  exam. 

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Garima Sisodia
Email-ID : garima@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : PhD

Dr. Garima Sisodia has earned her PhD from IFHE University, Hyderabad in the area of finance. Before joining Rajagiri Business School, she has taught post graduate and doctoral students in the area of accounting, finance and market microstructure at IBS Hyderabad for more than a decade. Her area of interest in research includes price discovery of cross-listed securities, market integration between developed and emerging markets and innovations and ethics in modern market microstructure. The cases and simulations authored by her are used for teaching MBA students at IBS Hyderabad and are published at Case Center, UK and IBS Case Development Centre (CDC), the third largest case repository in the world. She has presented papers at prestigious conferences and published research articles in international journals of repute like Economic Modelling, Finance Research Letters, International Journal of Managerial Finance, etc. "She serves as a guest referee at Journal of Public Affairs,  Rajagiri Management Journal and IUP Journal of Accounting Research and Audit Practices.". She has designed and delivered MDP sessions for executives of reputed companies like ONGC and ITC Paperboards.

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George Joseph
Email-ID : georgej@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

He holds a PhD in Operations Management and MBA from Cochin University of Science and Technology. He has over ten years of teaching experience. He has a track record of conducting research, primarily in the areas of entrepreneurship and project management, and has twice received the best paper award from the PMI India chapter in Kerala. His primary interests are in Entrepreneurship, Project management, Operations management, & Change management. He has presented many works at national and regional conferences. He received the Young Researcher Award in the 4th International Research Symposium in Service Management (IRSSM 4)-2013 awarded by the Service Research Institute, USA. He was a Member of the Board of Studies in Business Process and Data Analytics Under Faculty of Social Sciences of Cochin University of Science and Technology from 28/04/2018 to 27/2/2021. He could design seven courses each for M.Voc. in Technology and Management Consulting and B.Voc. in Business Process and Data Analytics respectively.

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Gowri Vijayan
Email-ID : gowri@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

Gowri Vijayan holds a Ph.D in Management from Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Malaysia, and a Master’s diploma in Management (Agribusiness) from CCS NIAM, Jaipur. Her Ph.D research specialized in sustainable supply chain management.  Her research interests includes circular economy, reverse logistics, SSCM, and agribusiness marketing. She has a number of research and book publications and has presented research papers in international conferences. Gowri Vijayan acted as a technical writer for an agribusiness e-learning platform from 2012 to 2016. She also has experience as a proof-reader of research papers and is currently a reviewer for several journals.

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Harish B
Email-ID : harishoffice@gmail.com;harish@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : MBA, Executive PGDM

DOJ: 15-11-2010

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Imran Ahmed Khan
Email-ID : imrankhan@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph. D.

DOJ: 14-07-2012

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Isaac Varghese
Email-ID : isaac@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : MA (PM & IR)

Isaac is the Director, Consulting at RBS. Prior to his current role at RBS since first February two thousand sixteen, Isaac was the Leader – People Advisory (P&O) at the Global Talent Hub of Ernst & Young (EY) one of the big four consulting firms with offices in over 175 countries and global revenues in excess of US$ 30 billion. Isaac comes with over 25 years of experience in core HR and Consulting, having worked with multinational conglomerates and Big 4 consulting firms. Isaac was Head, Human Resources at Bank Muscat, the largest bank in Oman with a regional presence in 8 countries and total asset footing of over US$ 20 billion for over 12 years. His early assignments included stints with KPMG Consulting, another big four consulting firm as Sr. Consultant/Manager and as Head, Human Resources at Essar Group (Power/Steel Business). Isaac holds a bachelor’s degree in law (LLB:1989) and a post graduate degree in human resources management (MA-PM& IR:1991); a triple university gold medallist and National Institute of Personnel Management (NIPM) awardee, Isaac also possess the following international certifications:

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Jaedong Kang
Email-ID : jaedong@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

International economics and sustainable development are his forte. He teaches management students Macroeconomics, Managerial Economics, Sustainable Development and Corporate Sustainability, and Global Business Environment. He has interest in studying bilateral relations between India and South Korea. He has been appointed as a regional expert by Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency. Since 2023, he has been working as an external coordinator for International Labour Organization. Through the collaboration with agencies above, he pursues practical application of economics’ theories for partnership between India and South Korea. He coordinates various programmes in association with Korean partner universities, governmental agencies and international organisations. He wants to grow youths to become leaders for their community and their neighbours. His research interests include Geo-Political Cooperation and Socio-Economic Engagement Between India and South Korea.

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Jains P. Chacko
Email-ID : jains@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : PhD

Jains holds a PhD in Finance from IFMR GSB, Krea University, awarded in July 2023 for his research thesis "Empirical Essays on the Implied Cost of Equity Capital." He began his professional career as an Academic Associate at the Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode. In this role, he assisted faculties in research and teaching, allowing him to develop further his skills and knowledge in his areas of interest. He gained valuable experience working with leading academics and researchers in his field. In addition to his academic experience, Jains also gained practical experience through a summer internship at Geojith BNP Paribas Financial Services Ltd, a brokerage firm. This experience exposed him to real-time trading and gave him a deeper understanding of the financial markets. He graduated with an M.Com. in Business Finance from Pondicherry University, where he developed a passion for research in corporate finance, corporate governance, sustainability finance, and financial markets. Jains presented research papers at World Finance Conference 2022, Research Symposium on Finance and Economics 2022, and SEBI-NISM Conference 2022. During his PhD, he published research papers in the Investment Management and Financial Innovations and Journal of Emerging Markets Finance. His major achievements include; the third-best paper award for the paper presented at the SEBI-NISM conference in 2022.

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Jayasri Indiran
Email-ID : jayasri@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

DOJ: 04-05-2016

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Jegan Jayapal
Email-ID : jegan@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

Dr. Jegan Jayapal is an assistant professor in the area of marketing, with 1.2 years of academic experience. His area of expertise includes Internal marketing communications and Brand management. He has completed his doctoral degree in marketing from national Institute of Technology-Trichy. Also, he was a Business analyst cum consultant professional with three years of corporate experience from 2015 to 2018 in providing and managing End to End business solutions for varied industries, both in green-field projects and established business. He is a Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering (CPRE-FL) certified by International Requirements Engineering Board IREB®. He has undergone various certifications in digital marketing offered by google. He has conferred the "Raja Raja Cholan Award of Honor" in recognizing his outstanding contribution to academics in June 2017. He has done his BE in Mechanical Engineering before pursuing his MBA. He is Specialized in Marketing and operations. He has undergone Projects like Cost sheet analysis and Time Study analysis. He has brought in functional expertise through consulting and training assignments to improve and implement Aadhaar eKYC related projects. He was coordinating with KRA, developers, and various intermediaries. Suggested Innovative solutions/Generate ideas for improving technology, product, shopfloor, and process productivity. He was measured on their implementation's strength, viability, and feasibility. It includes designing the prototype, elicitation, client interaction, stakeholder discussion, project implementation, and handling support queries.

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Joji Alex.N
Email-ID : jojialex@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph. D

DOJ: 12-01-1998

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Jose K. Puthur
Email-ID : puthur@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : PhD

Engineer from REC Trichy ( NIT Trichy) worked in HCL Infosys for 4 years then joined in National Informatics Centre as Systems Engineer. Worked in NIC as Sr Systems Engineer, Principal Systems Engineer, and Technical Director in NIC Thiruvanathapuram, New Delhi, Cochin and Kavarathi. Last posting was at Lakshadweep as State Informatics Officer and Technical Director in charge of NIC UT of Lakshadweep. 

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Kishore Gopalakrishna Pillai
Email-ID : kishore@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

Professor Kishore holds a Ph. D. from Florida State University and an MBA from IIM Calcutta. Previously, he held academic positions in several leading British universities, including full professorial appointments at the Bradford University School of Management and the Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia. He has also served as the Dean of the ASB. His research focus is on consumer knowledge, social networks and retailing. His papers have been published in leading journals such as the Journal of Retailing, Research Policy, International Journal of Research in Marketing, Journal of Product Innovation Management, British Journal of Management, Thinking and Reasoning, Journal of Business Research, etc. He is on the editorial boards of Journal of Business Research & Industrial Marketing Management. His research has attracted funding from the British Academy. He has edited special issues of journals, chaired several conference tracks and given keynote/plenary speeches at international conferences. Prior to his academic career, Kishore served in the industry and has been a senior project manager with TNS India and the Market Analyst at Arvind Brands Limited. In 2008, Professor Kishore was awarded the Brand Leadership Award at the Asia Brand Congress 2008, in recognition of contributions to the marketing profession. In 2019, Professor Kishore was awarded the Amity Global Academic Excellence Award, in recognition of contributions to academia.

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Krishnan Chandramohan
Email-ID : krishnan@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

Krishnan Chandramohan has completed his PhD from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. A post graduate in management from the Sri Sathya Sai University, he has worked in the financial industry for close to two years. Krishnan has cleared level 3 of the CFA program conducted by the Global Association of Investment Professionals. 

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Lakshmi J.
Email-ID : lakshmi@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

DOJ; 27-06-2022

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Mani P. Sam
Email-ID : manipsam@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : PGDM [IIM-C], FCMA

He has 32+ years of multi-functional corporate experience. Last assignment was as Vice President (Operations) with CAMS (A NSE group company) and was responsible for Middle office operations, Stock Broker Process, as well as centralised operations like Logistics, Purchase & Sourcing and Infrastructure and facilities management. He was associated with the first B2B auction portal (auctionindia.com) as Vice President. He was Vice President (Special Projects) with CSS Group and was a Director on Board of its Polish subsidiary CSS sp.zo.o Poland. He also worked with  TVS Electronics Ltd, Crompton Greaves and the Murugappa Group. He is also UGC NET qualified in management. 

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Manoj Mathew
Email-ID : manojmathew@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

Manoj Mathew holds a PhD in Management from School of Management Studies, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kerala. His doctoral thesis was in the area of Managerial performance. He holds masters in Economics [Calicut University] and Personnel Management [Mahatma Gandhi University] as well as an FDP from IIM- Ahmedabad. He started his career in the industry as a Human Resource Management professional and worked with companies such as AVT McCormick and Amalgam Foods Ltd for five years before joining academics. He teaches core and specialization papers in the area of HRM and OB along with the additional responsibility of heading the Office of Corporate relations. He regularly takes up consultancy assignments and conducts MDPs in the areas of Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour for corporate clients from India and abroad such as Cochin Shipyard Ltd, Apollo Tyres, Bank Muscat, CUMI, NEC Japan, Mahindra Satyam, Dubai Port World, Jayanti Group, Synthite Industries Ltd,  etc. He received AUDI-Visiting Professorship at WFI School of Management, Catholic University of Eichstatt-Ingolstadt [Germany]. He was also a visiting Professor at  VIVES University of Applied Sciences, Kortrijk [Belgium] and has been a visiting international scholar at Western Michigan University, Michigan State [USA] and School of Business, Assumption University, [Thailand].  

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Manoj Menon
Email-ID : manojmenon@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

With a Post-graduate degree in Human Resource Management and experience in the field of education spanning 22 years, he has a career enriched with academic, administrative, training, consultancy and research experience. He has been on the Boards of Examinations in the capacity of Chairman in Mahatma Gandhi University and Kerala University. He has also been an international visiting scholar to the Haworth Business School, Western Michigan University, USA. Training and Consultancy services provided to both corporate as well as educational institutions are in the areas of Employee Selection, Manpower Allocation, Voluntary Retirement Counseling Training Need Analysis, Organizational Evaluation and Organizational Development. He has also served as the Principal of Rajagiri College of Management & Applied Sciences.

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Minnu F. Pynadath
Email-ID : minnu@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : MBA

Minnu is currently pursuing PhD from School of Management Studies, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kalamassery. She has more than five years of teaching experience and two years of Industry exposure. She worked as Programme Manager for Additional Skill Acquisition Programme (ASAP), a skill development project by the Government of Kerala’s Higher Education Department.  She is a Certified and Empanelled Trainer in Data Science at ICT Academy. She trains Communicative English and IT graduates enrolled in ASAP, Higher Education Department. She was the Evaluation Panellist for Kerala Maker League Make-a-thon Finals, several times. She presented papers in various national, international conferences including ‘4thEntFin conference’ at Trier, Germany. She attended MDP, FDP and Summer Schools at various IIMs.

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Muhammad Ahsan Sadiq
Email-ID : muhammadahsan@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

Dr Sadiq holds a PhD degree in marketing and consumer behaviour from Pondicherry University. He has around six years of experience teaching both BBA and MBA students. Previously he has worked as an assistant professor at Aligarh Muslim University Centre Malappuram Kerala and at Jagdish Sheth School of Management (JAGSOM, previously IFIM), Bangalore. His research work has been published in the Journal of Retailing and consumer services. South Asian Journal of Business Studies, International Journal of Learning Technology, and International Journal of Business and Emerging Markets. Currently, Dr Sadiq is executing a minor project (INR 495000) as co-director sponsored by ICSSR. His research interests include areas like sustainable consumption, adoption of digital technologies, religiosity and consumer materialism.

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Nausheen Hashmi
Email-ID : nausheen@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

Dr. Hashmi holds a Ph.D. degree in Operations research from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. She also obtained her M.Phil in the area of Operations Research from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. She is currently working as an Assistant Professor in RBS. Prior joining to RBS she was associated with IBM, GLA University Mathura. Her area of expertise includes Mathematical Programming, Fuzzy Programming, Supply Chain Management, Operations Management and Transportation Problems. She has published several Papers in reputed journals. One of her research article on supply chain management has recently been published in Computer &Industrial Engineering Journal (ABDC category A). During her research tenure she was an active researcher and presented her research work in national and international Conferences.

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P. Balakrishnan Menon
Email-ID : balakrishnan@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

DOJ: 25-04-2016

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Padmanabhan N S
Email-ID : padmanabhan@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

DOJ: 26-05-2016

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Pramodh U Korula
Email-ID : pramodh@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : M.B.A

DOJ:01-11-2011

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Rintu Anthony
Email-ID : rintu@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

Dr. Rintu Anthony has earned her Ph.D. in Finance from the Indian Institute of Technology- Madras (IIT-M) and specializes in Fixed Income Markets.  Her work focuses on pricing and liquidity risk spillover across the term structure in the sovereign bond markets. She has over 5 years of teaching experience both national and international. Before joining Rajagiri, she was serving as an academic faculty for Business Management programs at the Canadore@Stanford College, Toronto, Canada.  She has presented her dissertation paper at the prestigious Southern Finance Association, USA. She has received the Institute PDF from IIT-Madras and JRF from the UGC.

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Rohini Pillai
Email-ID : rohini@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

Rohini holds a PhD in Management and Labour Studies from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and B. Tech in Electrical and Electronics engineering, from Government Engineering College, Thrissur. She has over 11 years of experience in business consulting and training in India and Oman. Prior to joining Rajagiri, she was working as the Vice President- Learning and Development, Sahya Leadership Solutions, an Edu-Tech start up based in Kochi. She has also worked as a part time faculty in Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and School of Management Studies, University of Calicut. Rohini’s research interests include human resource management, Digitalisation and gender studies.

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Ronny Thomas
Email-ID : ronny@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

Dr. Ronny Thomas has a PhD in economics and M.Phil in Planning and development from IIT Bombay, Mumbai. Prior to joining Rajagiri Centre for Business Studies, he has one and half years of teaching experience at the School of Management Studies, NIT Calicut, Kozhikode. His research interests include international trade and FDI inter-linkage with econometric application and productivity analysis. He has presented his research papers in conferences held at University of Nottingham, Delhi School of Economics, IIM Bangalore and IIT Bombay and also published his research work. His teaching interests are managerial economics, micro economics, applied industrial organisation and applied econometrics. 

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Sairam Moturi
Email-ID : sairam@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

Sairam Moturi is an Assistant Professor in Accounting and Finance area at Rajagiri Business School. Dr. Moturi is having over 10 years of experience in Academia and Industry. He earned his PhD with thesis titled “Firm Boundaries and Audit Quality: Evidence from Indian Business Groups” from School of Management Studies, University of Hyderabad. His research focuses on Earnings manipulation, Rotation of Auditors and Audit Quality. Moturi is a dual post graduate with MBA (Finance & Human Resources) and Masters in Commerce focused in Accountancy and a Certified Accounting Technician by education. Moturi was awarded with UGC NET-JRF twice in Commerce.

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Saji George
Email-ID : saji@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : MA, MBA

DOJ: 15-11-2010

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Sanjeev Ganguly
Email-ID : sanjeev@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

Sanjeev is a practicing manager turned academician. He had worked with the Maharatna PSU- Steel Authority of India Limited for two and a half decades. He also had stints with Hewlett Packard, Germany and IBM, Germany. He is a passionate teacher and loves to interact with young minds.

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Santosh Kumar Sharma
Email-ID : santosh@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

Santosh Kumar Sharma holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Behaviour from IIT Roorkee and Masters in Human Resource Management from IIT Kharagpur.   His research interests include healthcare management, business negotiation, and Leadership. He has a number of research publications in reputed journals and has presented research papers in national and international conferences.

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Shelly Jose
Email-ID : shellyjose@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

Has nine years of professional experience including with Indian Oil Corporation in areas of HR, Generic Systems Audit, Training and Implementation of ISO 9002, ISO 14001 and occupational health and safety management, was also associated with World Wide Fuels Refineries Benchmarking exercise conducted by Solomon Associates, Singapore. His subjects of instruction include Organizational Behaviour, Performance Management,   Environmental Management, Business Ethics and Strategic HRM. His thesis awarded PhD at  School of Management Studies, Cochin University of Science and Technology, explores the individual and contextual antecedents of  Innovative Work Behaviour.

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Shirley Rita Luiz
Email-ID : shirley_poppen2002@yahoo.com
Qualification : M.Sc (Mathematics)

DOJ: 01-07-2004

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Siby Jose
Email-ID : sibyjose@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : PhD

DOJ: 21-05-2006

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Simon Jacob C
Email-ID : simon@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

DOJ: 18-10-2004

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Sinimole K R
Email-ID : sinimole@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

Sinimole completed her PhD in management from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.. Prior to Rajagiri, she was working as an Associate Professor(Research and Business Analytics) with Prin. L. N. Welingkar Institute of Management Development & Research, Mumbai and S P Jain School  of Global Management, Singapore  as an adjunct Faculty.  Her research interests include Organizational Performance and efficiency. Her teaching interests include Business Analytics, Operations Research and Business Statistics.

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Smitha Siji
Email-ID : smitha@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

She is an MBA from Vikram Universiity Ujjain, M.Phil frm Alagappa University, Karaikudy and Ph. D from Bharathiar University, Coimbatore. Before joining the field of academics, she had a brief stint in the Industry. She worked as an Associate-Women’s Health care in Foreva – A division of Unichem Laboratories Ltd for three years. She has around 12 years of teaching experience and she has worked in several reputed B-schools in Tamil Nadu and Kerala. She has participated and presented papers in several national and international conferences and has published articles in reputed journals and edited volume books. She has also been a visiting scholar at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo and Nazareth College, Rochester, USA.

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Somesh Kumar Sinha
Email-ID : somesh@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

Dr. Somesh has done his PhD in Marketing Management from Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology Bhopal. He was a UGC Research Fellow.  His research area includes Sales Promotion, Brand Management, Consumer behavior, Digital and Social Media Marketing.  He has research publications in various international journals to his credit. He has also presented papers in national and international conferences. He also has five years of teaching and industry experience. 

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Sreejith R
Email-ID : sreejithr@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : PhD

DOJ: 04-Jan-2017

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Subhadarshini Khatua
Email-ID : subhadarshini@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

She has Ph.D. in Marketing from Indian Institute of Management, Shillong. She has done MS in Project management from Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom. She is gold medallist in BTech from Utkal University and also holds a bachelor’s degree in law. She has worked for Department of Atomic energy as Scientific Officer prior to PhD.

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Susan Mathew
Email-ID : susanmathew@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

DOJ: 23-08-2005

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Tharun Thomas
Email-ID : tharun@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

Dr. Tharun Thomas is a distinguished faculty member with a rich academic background and over 8 years of teaching experience. Holding a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering with a focus on Operational Excellence and an M.Tech in Manufacturing Technology, Dr. Tharun brings a unique blend of theoretical knowledge and practical expertise to the academic environment. Having served in key administrative positions such as Dean and HoD, Dr. Tharun demonstrates strong leadership and organizational skills. The professional journey includes significant contributions as an Assistant Professor at the Indian Naval Academy and Assistant Manager of International Netherlands Group.His research endeavors are notable, with numerous contributions published in esteemed top-tier journals, particularly in the domains of Quality Engineering and Operational Excellence. The commitment to staying at the forefront of research is further evident through active participation and paper presentations in international conferences. Currently associated with Rajagiri, Dr. Tharun Thomas continues to contribute to the field of Operational Excellence through teaching, research, and leadership roles.

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Veeva Mathew
Email-ID : veevamathew@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

DOJ: 21-01-1998

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Vimal Krishnan R
Email-ID : vimal@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

Vimal Krishnan R holds a partnered Ph.D. in design from the Department of Design, IIT Hyderabad and the School of Design and Architecture, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia.  His doctoral study focused on the interplay of emotion and cognition in conceptual graphic design. His research articles have been published in leading international peer reviewed journals such as Design Studies and The Design Journal. He has also contributed chapters to the proceedings of several international conferences. He has presented papers and posters at several national and international conferences organized by University of Strathclyde, U.K., Swinburne University of Technology, Australia, Manchester Metropolitan University, U.K., Politecnico Di Milano, Italy, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru and IDC – IIT Mumbai. He has also completed a new media storytelling project supported by India Foundation for the Arts, Bengaluru, which leverages the power of emerging technologies like virtual reality. As a teaching assistant, he has delivered sessions on topics like ‘Design and Emotion’ (interaction design course-IIT Hyderabad), ‘Design, Empathy, VR’ (AI and Interaction design course – IIT Hyderabad), ‘Word and Image’ (Word and image course- IIT Hyderabad). His broad research interests include graphic design, visual design, visual culture, design cognition, and new approaches to studying the creative and reflective traditions of India.

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Vineeth V
Email-ID : vineethv@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : M.Tech

Vineeth is pursuing a Ph.D. in Water resources management from the Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. His area of research is Geospatial Analysis and Forecasting of Urban Groundwater Level using ML & Deep Learning models. He holds a master's Degree in Water Resources Engineering & Management from the National Institute of Technology, Surathkal, Karnataka (NITK), and a bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Kerala. His areas of research interest are water resources management, environmental economics, geospatial analysis, operations research, machine learning, and deep learning.

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Vineetha Prakash
Email-ID : vineethaprakash@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

Vineetha Prakash holds a PhD in Management from Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala; in the area of Human Resource Management. She was the recipient of the UGC Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) for doctoral research. She has published research papers in journals and also presented papers at conferences. Prior to moving to academia and research, she has gained industry experience of 3.5 years, having worked with two major multi-national organizations in the IT industry. Her research interests include work-life balance, employee well-being and employee engagement.

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George Joseph
Email-ID : georgejoseph@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : M. Phil

He secured 1st Rank in Master’s Degree in Computer Applications from Ravenshaw University, Cuttack, Odisha and he holds a Master of Philosophy in Computer Science from Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli. He has qualified UGC-NET in Computer Science. He has completed a six months International Programme on Development of Management Perspectives from IIM, Kolkata and a Post Graduate Diploma in Computer and Management Information System from RCM, Bhubaneswar. 

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 Dr. Aby Abraham
Email-ID : abyabraham@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : FPM

DOJ: 07-12-2015

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Dr. Ajay Lunawat
Email-ID : ajay@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : FCA, PhD

DOJ: 14-10-2019

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Dr. Anto Joseph
Email-ID : anto@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : PhD

DOJ: 04-05-2020

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Dr.  Anu Antony
Email-ID : anuantony@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

DOJ: 03-01-2024

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Arun George
Email-ID : arungeorge@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : MBA

DOJ: 07-07-2014

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Dr. Bejoy John Thomas
Email-ID : bejoy@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

DOJ: 01-06-2013

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Deepak Babu
Email-ID : deepak@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : MBA

DOJ: 03-02-2012

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Harish B
Email-ID : harishoffice@gmail.com;harish@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : MBA, Executive PGDM

DOJ: 15-11-2010

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Dr. Imran Ahmed Khan
Email-ID : imrankhan@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph. D.

DOJ: 14-07-2012

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Dr. Jayasri Indiran
Email-ID : jayasri@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

DOJ: 04-05-2016

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Dr. Joji Alex.N
Email-ID : jojialex@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph. D

DOJ: 12-01-1998

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Dr. Lakshmi J.
Email-ID : lakshmi@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

DOJ; 27-06-2022

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Dr. P. Balakrishnan Menon
Email-ID : balakrishnan@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

DOJ: 25-04-2016

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Dr. Padmanabhan N S
Email-ID : padmanabhan@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

DOJ: 26-05-2016

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Pramodh U Korula
Email-ID : pramodh@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : M.B.A

DOJ:01-11-2011

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Saji George
Email-ID : saji@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : MA, MBA

DOJ: 15-11-2010

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Shirley Rita Luiz
Email-ID : shirley_poppen2002@yahoo.com
Qualification : M.Sc (Mathematics)

DOJ: 01-07-2004

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Dr. Siby Jose
Email-ID : sibyjose@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : PhD

DOJ: 21-05-2006

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Dr. Simon Jacob C
Email-ID : simon@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

DOJ: 18-10-2004

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Dr. Sreejith R
Email-ID : sreejithr@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : PhD

DOJ: 04-Jan-2017

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Dr. Susan Mathew
Email-ID : susanmathew@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

DOJ: 23-08-2005

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Dr. Veeva Mathew
Email-ID : veevamathew@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

DOJ: 21-01-1998

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Dr.Binoy Joseph
Email-ID : binoyjoseph@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : L. L. B, M.A (PM&IR), Ph.D

Dr. Binoy Joseph has extensive expertise in the areas of Employee Resourcing, Performance Management, Reward Management and HR Accounting and Auditing and his core research interest lies in HRM Innovations. He has had professional experience in the hospitality industry. He has been a Visiting International Scholar at Western Michigan University, USA, and was also engaged in research on Employee Stock Option Plan and Corporate Performance. He has received his doctoral degree from Cochin University of Science and Technology in the topic "Innovative Human Resource Practices and HR Outcomes in Software Firms. He has received the prestigious AUDI Professorship 2013 Fellowship. He made a presentation in Audi Company in Ingolstadt Germany on 'People Management Challenges for German Managers in India'. He also took a course ' International Human Resource Management' for the students in Catholic University, Ingolstadt, Germany.

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Fr.Reginold
Email-ID : reginold@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : MBA

He holds Two Master degrees in philosophy and MBA HR. He has M.Phil in Human resource management from Bharathiar University, Coimbatore.  He cleared UGC -NET  exam. 

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Dr. Manoj Mathew
Email-ID : manojmathew@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

Manoj Mathew holds a PhD in Management from School of Management Studies, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kerala. His doctoral thesis was in the area of Managerial performance. He holds masters in Economics [Calicut University] and Personnel Management [Mahatma Gandhi University] as well as an FDP from IIM- Ahmedabad. He started his career in the industry as a Human Resource Management professional and worked with companies such as AVT McCormick and Amalgam Foods Ltd for five years before joining academics. He teaches core and specialization papers in the area of HRM and OB along with the additional responsibility of heading the Office of Corporate relations. He regularly takes up consultancy assignments and conducts MDPs in the areas of Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour for corporate clients from India and abroad such as Cochin Shipyard Ltd, Apollo Tyres, Bank Muscat, CUMI, NEC Japan, Mahindra Satyam, Dubai Port World, Jayanti Group, Synthite Industries Ltd,  etc. He received AUDI-Visiting Professorship at WFI School of Management, Catholic University of Eichstatt-Ingolstadt [Germany]. He was also a visiting Professor at  VIVES University of Applied Sciences, Kortrijk [Belgium] and has been a visiting international scholar at Western Michigan University, Michigan State [USA] and School of Business, Assumption University, [Thailand].  

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Dr. Manoj Menon
Email-ID : manojmenon@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

With a Post-graduate degree in Human Resource Management and experience in the field of education spanning 22 years, he has a career enriched with academic, administrative, training, consultancy and research experience. He has been on the Boards of Examinations in the capacity of Chairman in Mahatma Gandhi University and Kerala University. He has also been an international visiting scholar to the Haworth Business School, Western Michigan University, USA. Training and Consultancy services provided to both corporate as well as educational institutions are in the areas of Employee Selection, Manpower Allocation, Voluntary Retirement Counseling Training Need Analysis, Organizational Evaluation and Organizational Development. He has also served as the Principal of Rajagiri College of Management & Applied Sciences.

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Dr. Shelly Jose
Email-ID : shellyjose@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

Has nine years of professional experience including with Indian Oil Corporation in areas of HR, Generic Systems Audit, Training and Implementation of ISO 9002, ISO 14001 and occupational health and safety management, was also associated with World Wide Fuels Refineries Benchmarking exercise conducted by Solomon Associates, Singapore. His subjects of instruction include Organizational Behaviour, Performance Management,   Environmental Management, Business Ethics and Strategic HRM. His thesis awarded PhD at  School of Management Studies, Cochin University of Science and Technology, explores the individual and contextual antecedents of  Innovative Work Behaviour.

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Abraham Babu
Email-ID : abraham@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

He has an industry experience spanning over nine years which includes a three year stint in Kenya His teaching experience runs into seventeen years. He holds a PhD in Economics, an M.Phil in Economics and has an M.S in Development Economics. His doctoral thesis was on the study of Foreign Direct Investment in India since 1991. Micro Economics and Development Economics are his forte. He has attended the International Programme on Development of Management Perspectives at the Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata and Faculty Development Programme in Management at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. He was part of the team which conducted a training programme for Bank Muscat, Oman and was a visiting faculty at KATHO University College, Kortrijk, Belgium.

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Abraham Joseph
Email-ID : abrahamjoseph@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : FCA

An expert accounting, financial management and spreadsheet modelling teacher with professional and teaching experience in the UAE and India. Currently teaching postgraduate students of business administration.

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Ancy Sara Philip
Email-ID : ancy@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

Ancy Sara Philip holds a PhD in Economics from Curtin University Australia and an MPhil in Economics from Hyderabad Central University.  Prior to joining Rajagiri, she has worked as a guest faculty in Curtin University Malaysia and as a lecturer in SCMS-Cochin. Her research focuses on household and intrahousehold decision-making in Global South, Control and ownership of economic assets, economic policy debates on gendered aspects of wellbeing and methodological aspects of mixed method design. She has presented research papers in various international conferences including ACSPRI Social science Methodology conference of 2020. She has research experience coordinating and participating in research activities while working in Centre for Public Policy, Kochi. She has also completed various research training programmes from e-Grad school of Queensland University.

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Angela Susan Mathew
Email-ID : angela@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

Angela completed her PhD in Information Systems from Department of Management Studies, IIT Delhi. She is UGC NET qualified. Prior to Rajagiri, she was working as Senior Faculty (Online) with Eaton Business School. Her research interests include e-governance and citizen engagement. Her teaching interests include Management Information System, E-business and Business Analytics.  She has previously worked with Rajagiri Business School and represented RBS in the International Staff Week at Vives University, Belgium in 2016.

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ANN MARY JOSE
Email-ID : annmary@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : PhD

Ann Mary Jose completed her PhD on the topic “A Study on Spatial Inequalities and Policy Responses in India”, Department of Economic and Finance, Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR), Chennai, which was then affiliated to University of Madras. She holds an Integrated Masters degree in Economics from Central University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, Telangana. She is UGC NET qualified. Also, she has been worked as a Research Assistant at Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS), Hyderabad, Telangana. Her research focuses on various types of inequalities persist in Indian society and the effectiveness of different policy initiatives to tackle it. Her research interest is in the area of development economics, public policy, impact evaluation studies and open macro-economics. Currently, she has been working on issues related to gender inequality and wage differentials among Indian wage earners. She has publications in Journal of Public affairs, Economic & Political Weekly, Indian journal of economics etc, and has papers under review in various reputed journals.

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Arun A Elias
Email-ID : arunelias@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : PhD in Management - Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

Prof. Arun Abraham Elias is the Director and Dean of Rajagiri Business School in Kochi, Kerala, India. He has previously held senior leadership positions as the Dean of the College of Business, Hospitality and Tourism Studies at Fiji National University and various roles, including Associate Dean (International and Accreditation), and MBA Director at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Academically, Prof Elias is a PhD in Management from Victoria University of Wellington and holds two Master degrees—one in Industrial Engineering and Management from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur and the other in Agricultural Engineering from Allahabad University. Prof. Elias has an extensive publication record, with recent articles pertaining to systems thinking, stakeholder analysis, and sustainable supply chain management. Additionally, he has engaged in various academic roles such as being a mentor with AASCB, a panel member of AMBA Accreditation Panel, and a fellow at the New Zealand-India Research Institute. His research and teaching expertise lies in systems thinking and modelling, stakeholder management and environmental conflict management.

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Aviral Tiwari
Email-ID : aviral@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Postdoc

Website: https://sites.google.com/view/aviral-kumar-tiwari/home

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Bala Subramanian R
Email-ID : bala@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : FPM

Bala Subramanian R has overall 15 years of experience in academic and two years in industry. He has completed Fellow Program in Management specialized in OB area. His doctoral thesis examines the role of employees’ gratitude and team performance. He has conducted training for the employees of TVS, India Post, NALCO, and Prachar Bharati, Odisha.

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Brahmadev Panda
Email-ID : rahmadev@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

Dr. Brahmadev has done his full time Ph.D. degree in finance from National Institute of Technology (NIT) Rourkela. He holds MCOM, MBA and MPhil in commerce prior to his doctoral degree. He is the recipient of the doctoral research fellow from the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi. His Ph.D. research focused on the effect ownership structure on firm performance and liquidity. His research interest includes corporate finance, corporate governance and financial market. He has published research papers in many national and international journals of repute. He has presented his research works at IIMA, IIMB and IIMR. He has published case studies at Case Center, UK and Sage. He has attended many faculty development programs and workshops conducted by IIM Kozhikode and NIT Rourkela. He has around 11 years of experience consisting of both industry and academia. He has taught accounting and finance papers to BBA, PGDM and MBA students. He has trained corporate executives of West Coal Fields from Coal India Ltd. He has worked with institutions like IMIS Bhubaneswar, Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) Bhopal and Symbiosis Institute of Business Studies (SIBM) prior to joining with Rajagiri Business School.

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Dipti Lunawat
Email-ID : dipti@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : CA

Teaching in finance domain in the areas of accounting and finance. She has 13+ years of teaching experience in finance related subjects for ACCA, CA, MBA & PGDM. Expertise soft skill trainer for newly qualified professionals. Chief Founder & Mentor, EDUPORT Career Solutions Private Limited. She has worked as an Audit executive in Ernst and Young, Chennai. She was the first Program Co-ordinator for Orientation and GMCS for Gurgaon Branch of ICAI.  Faculty at Gurgaon, Amravati, Raipur & Bhilai Branch of ICAI for GMCS and Orientation, also worked as a senior content developer for Educomp Solutions (P) Ltd.  Her teaching interests are Financial Accounting, Business Law, Cost and Management Accounting, and Corporate Finance.She is also a Guest Lecture at Artevelde University, Ghent Belgium.

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Fr. Francis Sebastian CMI
Email-ID : fr.francis@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

Rev. Dr. Francis Sebastian CMI is the Assistant Director of the Rajagiri Business School and Rajagiri College of Social Sciences (Valley Campus). Fr. Francis received his PhD in neuromarketing and completed MBA from VIT Business School. He is an engineering graduate in Bio-informatics. He has completed FDP from IIM-A, and ESP from Catholic 
University Lille, France. He is  a well-known resource person in the field of education, entrepreneurship, SDG and social marketing. 
He has been a visiting international scholar at Padua University, Italy; Vives University, Belgium; Catholic  University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany; Western Michigan University, USA; Nazareth College, Maryland, USA; and Pontifical Catholic University, Quito, Ecuador, NCKU, Taiwan. He has presented papers in various International Management conferences as well as  in the international think-tank forum KIEP (Seoul). He has published many research articles and case studies in various reputed peer-reviewed journals. Fr. Francis has domain expert in the areas of Neuromarketing, social marketing  and consumer engagement. He has undertaken various consultancy projects for CHAI and many other organizations.

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Garima Sisodia
Email-ID : garima@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : PhD

Dr. Garima Sisodia has earned her PhD from IFHE University, Hyderabad in the area of finance. Before joining Rajagiri Business School, she has taught post graduate and doctoral students in the area of accounting, finance and market microstructure at IBS Hyderabad for more than a decade. Her area of interest in research includes price discovery of cross-listed securities, market integration between developed and emerging markets and innovations and ethics in modern market microstructure. The cases and simulations authored by her are used for teaching MBA students at IBS Hyderabad and are published at Case Center, UK and IBS Case Development Centre (CDC), the third largest case repository in the world. She has presented papers at prestigious conferences and published research articles in international journals of repute like Economic Modelling, Finance Research Letters, International Journal of Managerial Finance, etc. "She serves as a guest referee at Journal of Public Affairs,  Rajagiri Management Journal and IUP Journal of Accounting Research and Audit Practices.". She has designed and delivered MDP sessions for executives of reputed companies like ONGC and ITC Paperboards.

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George Joseph
Email-ID : georgej@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

He holds a PhD in Operations Management and MBA from Cochin University of Science and Technology. He has over ten years of teaching experience. He has a track record of conducting research, primarily in the areas of entrepreneurship and project management, and has twice received the best paper award from the PMI India chapter in Kerala. His primary interests are in Entrepreneurship, Project management, Operations management, & Change management. He has presented many works at national and regional conferences. He received the Young Researcher Award in the 4th International Research Symposium in Service Management (IRSSM 4)-2013 awarded by the Service Research Institute, USA. He was a Member of the Board of Studies in Business Process and Data Analytics Under Faculty of Social Sciences of Cochin University of Science and Technology from 28/04/2018 to 27/2/2021. He could design seven courses each for M.Voc. in Technology and Management Consulting and B.Voc. in Business Process and Data Analytics respectively.

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Gowri Vijayan
Email-ID : gowri@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

Gowri Vijayan holds a Ph.D in Management from Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM), Malaysia, and a Master’s diploma in Management (Agribusiness) from CCS NIAM, Jaipur. Her Ph.D research specialized in sustainable supply chain management.  Her research interests includes circular economy, reverse logistics, SSCM, and agribusiness marketing. She has a number of research and book publications and has presented research papers in international conferences. Gowri Vijayan acted as a technical writer for an agribusiness e-learning platform from 2012 to 2016. She also has experience as a proof-reader of research papers and is currently a reviewer for several journals.

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Isaac Varghese
Email-ID : isaac@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : MA (PM & IR)

Isaac is the Director, Consulting at RBS. Prior to his current role at RBS since first February two thousand sixteen, Isaac was the Leader – People Advisory (P&O) at the Global Talent Hub of Ernst & Young (EY) one of the big four consulting firms with offices in over 175 countries and global revenues in excess of US$ 30 billion. Isaac comes with over 25 years of experience in core HR and Consulting, having worked with multinational conglomerates and Big 4 consulting firms. Isaac was Head, Human Resources at Bank Muscat, the largest bank in Oman with a regional presence in 8 countries and total asset footing of over US$ 20 billion for over 12 years. His early assignments included stints with KPMG Consulting, another big four consulting firm as Sr. Consultant/Manager and as Head, Human Resources at Essar Group (Power/Steel Business). Isaac holds a bachelor’s degree in law (LLB:1989) and a post graduate degree in human resources management (MA-PM& IR:1991); a triple university gold medallist and National Institute of Personnel Management (NIPM) awardee, Isaac also possess the following international certifications:

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Jaedong Kang
Email-ID : jaedong@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

International economics and sustainable development are his forte. He teaches management students Macroeconomics, Managerial Economics, Sustainable Development and Corporate Sustainability, and Global Business Environment. He has interest in studying bilateral relations between India and South Korea. He has been appointed as a regional expert by Korea Trade-Investment Promotion Agency. Since 2023, he has been working as an external coordinator for International Labour Organization. Through the collaboration with agencies above, he pursues practical application of economics’ theories for partnership between India and South Korea. He coordinates various programmes in association with Korean partner universities, governmental agencies and international organisations. He wants to grow youths to become leaders for their community and their neighbours. His research interests include Geo-Political Cooperation and Socio-Economic Engagement Between India and South Korea.

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Jains P. Chacko
Email-ID : jains@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : PhD

Jains holds a PhD in Finance from IFMR GSB, Krea University, awarded in July 2023 for his research thesis "Empirical Essays on the Implied Cost of Equity Capital." He began his professional career as an Academic Associate at the Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode. In this role, he assisted faculties in research and teaching, allowing him to develop further his skills and knowledge in his areas of interest. He gained valuable experience working with leading academics and researchers in his field. In addition to his academic experience, Jains also gained practical experience through a summer internship at Geojith BNP Paribas Financial Services Ltd, a brokerage firm. This experience exposed him to real-time trading and gave him a deeper understanding of the financial markets. He graduated with an M.Com. in Business Finance from Pondicherry University, where he developed a passion for research in corporate finance, corporate governance, sustainability finance, and financial markets. Jains presented research papers at World Finance Conference 2022, Research Symposium on Finance and Economics 2022, and SEBI-NISM Conference 2022. During his PhD, he published research papers in the Investment Management and Financial Innovations and Journal of Emerging Markets Finance. His major achievements include; the third-best paper award for the paper presented at the SEBI-NISM conference in 2022.

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Jegan Jayapal
Email-ID : jegan@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

Dr. Jegan Jayapal is an assistant professor in the area of marketing, with 1.2 years of academic experience. His area of expertise includes Internal marketing communications and Brand management. He has completed his doctoral degree in marketing from national Institute of Technology-Trichy. Also, he was a Business analyst cum consultant professional with three years of corporate experience from 2015 to 2018 in providing and managing End to End business solutions for varied industries, both in green-field projects and established business. He is a Certified Professional for Requirements Engineering (CPRE-FL) certified by International Requirements Engineering Board IREB®. He has undergone various certifications in digital marketing offered by google. He has conferred the "Raja Raja Cholan Award of Honor" in recognizing his outstanding contribution to academics in June 2017. He has done his BE in Mechanical Engineering before pursuing his MBA. He is Specialized in Marketing and operations. He has undergone Projects like Cost sheet analysis and Time Study analysis. He has brought in functional expertise through consulting and training assignments to improve and implement Aadhaar eKYC related projects. He was coordinating with KRA, developers, and various intermediaries. Suggested Innovative solutions/Generate ideas for improving technology, product, shopfloor, and process productivity. He was measured on their implementation's strength, viability, and feasibility. It includes designing the prototype, elicitation, client interaction, stakeholder discussion, project implementation, and handling support queries.

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Jose K. Puthur
Email-ID : puthur@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : PhD

Engineer from REC Trichy ( NIT Trichy) worked in HCL Infosys for 4 years then joined in National Informatics Centre as Systems Engineer. Worked in NIC as Sr Systems Engineer, Principal Systems Engineer, and Technical Director in NIC Thiruvanathapuram, New Delhi, Cochin and Kavarathi. Last posting was at Lakshadweep as State Informatics Officer and Technical Director in charge of NIC UT of Lakshadweep. 

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Kishore Gopalakrishna Pillai
Email-ID : kishore@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

Professor Kishore holds a Ph. D. from Florida State University and an MBA from IIM Calcutta. Previously, he held academic positions in several leading British universities, including full professorial appointments at the Bradford University School of Management and the Norwich Business School, University of East Anglia. He has also served as the Dean of the ASB. His research focus is on consumer knowledge, social networks and retailing. His papers have been published in leading journals such as the Journal of Retailing, Research Policy, International Journal of Research in Marketing, Journal of Product Innovation Management, British Journal of Management, Thinking and Reasoning, Journal of Business Research, etc. He is on the editorial boards of Journal of Business Research & Industrial Marketing Management. His research has attracted funding from the British Academy. He has edited special issues of journals, chaired several conference tracks and given keynote/plenary speeches at international conferences. Prior to his academic career, Kishore served in the industry and has been a senior project manager with TNS India and the Market Analyst at Arvind Brands Limited. In 2008, Professor Kishore was awarded the Brand Leadership Award at the Asia Brand Congress 2008, in recognition of contributions to the marketing profession. In 2019, Professor Kishore was awarded the Amity Global Academic Excellence Award, in recognition of contributions to academia.

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Krishnan Chandramohan
Email-ID : krishnan@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

Krishnan Chandramohan has completed his PhD from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. A post graduate in management from the Sri Sathya Sai University, he has worked in the financial industry for close to two years. Krishnan has cleared level 3 of the CFA program conducted by the Global Association of Investment Professionals. 

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Mani P. Sam
Email-ID : manipsam@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : PGDM [IIM-C], FCMA

He has 32+ years of multi-functional corporate experience. Last assignment was as Vice President (Operations) with CAMS (A NSE group company) and was responsible for Middle office operations, Stock Broker Process, as well as centralised operations like Logistics, Purchase & Sourcing and Infrastructure and facilities management. He was associated with the first B2B auction portal (auctionindia.com) as Vice President. He was Vice President (Special Projects) with CSS Group and was a Director on Board of its Polish subsidiary CSS sp.zo.o Poland. He also worked with  TVS Electronics Ltd, Crompton Greaves and the Murugappa Group. He is also UGC NET qualified in management. 

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Minnu F. Pynadath
Email-ID : minnu@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : MBA

Minnu is currently pursuing PhD from School of Management Studies, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kalamassery. She has more than five years of teaching experience and two years of Industry exposure. She worked as Programme Manager for Additional Skill Acquisition Programme (ASAP), a skill development project by the Government of Kerala’s Higher Education Department.  She is a Certified and Empanelled Trainer in Data Science at ICT Academy. She trains Communicative English and IT graduates enrolled in ASAP, Higher Education Department. She was the Evaluation Panellist for Kerala Maker League Make-a-thon Finals, several times. She presented papers in various national, international conferences including ‘4thEntFin conference’ at Trier, Germany. She attended MDP, FDP and Summer Schools at various IIMs.

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Muhammad Ahsan Sadiq
Email-ID : muhammadahsan@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

Dr Sadiq holds a PhD degree in marketing and consumer behaviour from Pondicherry University. He has around six years of experience teaching both BBA and MBA students. Previously he has worked as an assistant professor at Aligarh Muslim University Centre Malappuram Kerala and at Jagdish Sheth School of Management (JAGSOM, previously IFIM), Bangalore. His research work has been published in the Journal of Retailing and consumer services. South Asian Journal of Business Studies, International Journal of Learning Technology, and International Journal of Business and Emerging Markets. Currently, Dr Sadiq is executing a minor project (INR 495000) as co-director sponsored by ICSSR. His research interests include areas like sustainable consumption, adoption of digital technologies, religiosity and consumer materialism.

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Nausheen Hashmi
Email-ID : nausheen@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

Dr. Hashmi holds a Ph.D. degree in Operations research from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. She also obtained her M.Phil in the area of Operations Research from Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. She is currently working as an Assistant Professor in RBS. Prior joining to RBS she was associated with IBM, GLA University Mathura. Her area of expertise includes Mathematical Programming, Fuzzy Programming, Supply Chain Management, Operations Management and Transportation Problems. She has published several Papers in reputed journals. One of her research article on supply chain management has recently been published in Computer &Industrial Engineering Journal (ABDC category A). During her research tenure she was an active researcher and presented her research work in national and international Conferences.

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Rintu Anthony
Email-ID : rintu@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

Dr. Rintu Anthony has earned her Ph.D. in Finance from the Indian Institute of Technology- Madras (IIT-M) and specializes in Fixed Income Markets.  Her work focuses on pricing and liquidity risk spillover across the term structure in the sovereign bond markets. She has over 5 years of teaching experience both national and international. Before joining Rajagiri, she was serving as an academic faculty for Business Management programs at the Canadore@Stanford College, Toronto, Canada.  She has presented her dissertation paper at the prestigious Southern Finance Association, USA. She has received the Institute PDF from IIT-Madras and JRF from the UGC.

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Rohini Pillai
Email-ID : rohini@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

Rohini holds a PhD in Management and Labour Studies from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and B. Tech in Electrical and Electronics engineering, from Government Engineering College, Thrissur. She has over 11 years of experience in business consulting and training in India and Oman. Prior to joining Rajagiri, she was working as the Vice President- Learning and Development, Sahya Leadership Solutions, an Edu-Tech start up based in Kochi. She has also worked as a part time faculty in Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and School of Management Studies, University of Calicut. Rohini’s research interests include human resource management, Digitalisation and gender studies.

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Ronny Thomas
Email-ID : ronny@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

Dr. Ronny Thomas has a PhD in economics and M.Phil in Planning and development from IIT Bombay, Mumbai. Prior to joining Rajagiri Centre for Business Studies, he has one and half years of teaching experience at the School of Management Studies, NIT Calicut, Kozhikode. His research interests include international trade and FDI inter-linkage with econometric application and productivity analysis. He has presented his research papers in conferences held at University of Nottingham, Delhi School of Economics, IIM Bangalore and IIT Bombay and also published his research work. His teaching interests are managerial economics, micro economics, applied industrial organisation and applied econometrics. 

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Sairam Moturi
Email-ID : sairam@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

Sairam Moturi is an Assistant Professor in Accounting and Finance area at Rajagiri Business School. Dr. Moturi is having over 10 years of experience in Academia and Industry. He earned his PhD with thesis titled “Firm Boundaries and Audit Quality: Evidence from Indian Business Groups” from School of Management Studies, University of Hyderabad. His research focuses on Earnings manipulation, Rotation of Auditors and Audit Quality. Moturi is a dual post graduate with MBA (Finance & Human Resources) and Masters in Commerce focused in Accountancy and a Certified Accounting Technician by education. Moturi was awarded with UGC NET-JRF twice in Commerce.

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Sanjeev Ganguly
Email-ID : sanjeev@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

Sanjeev is a practicing manager turned academician. He had worked with the Maharatna PSU- Steel Authority of India Limited for two and a half decades. He also had stints with Hewlett Packard, Germany and IBM, Germany. He is a passionate teacher and loves to interact with young minds.

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Santosh Kumar Sharma
Email-ID : santosh@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

Santosh Kumar Sharma holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Behaviour from IIT Roorkee and Masters in Human Resource Management from IIT Kharagpur.   His research interests include healthcare management, business negotiation, and Leadership. He has a number of research publications in reputed journals and has presented research papers in national and international conferences.

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Sinimole K R
Email-ID : sinimole@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

Sinimole completed her PhD in management from Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai.. Prior to Rajagiri, she was working as an Associate Professor(Research and Business Analytics) with Prin. L. N. Welingkar Institute of Management Development & Research, Mumbai and S P Jain School  of Global Management, Singapore  as an adjunct Faculty.  Her research interests include Organizational Performance and efficiency. Her teaching interests include Business Analytics, Operations Research and Business Statistics.

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Smitha Siji
Email-ID : smitha@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

She is an MBA from Vikram Universiity Ujjain, M.Phil frm Alagappa University, Karaikudy and Ph. D from Bharathiar University, Coimbatore. Before joining the field of academics, she had a brief stint in the Industry. She worked as an Associate-Women’s Health care in Foreva – A division of Unichem Laboratories Ltd for three years. She has around 12 years of teaching experience and she has worked in several reputed B-schools in Tamil Nadu and Kerala. She has participated and presented papers in several national and international conferences and has published articles in reputed journals and edited volume books. She has also been a visiting scholar at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo and Nazareth College, Rochester, USA.

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Somesh Kumar Sinha
Email-ID : somesh@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

Dr. Somesh has done his PhD in Marketing Management from Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology Bhopal. He was a UGC Research Fellow.  His research area includes Sales Promotion, Brand Management, Consumer behavior, Digital and Social Media Marketing.  He has research publications in various international journals to his credit. He has also presented papers in national and international conferences. He also has five years of teaching and industry experience. 

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Subhadarshini Khatua
Email-ID : subhadarshini@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

She has Ph.D. in Marketing from Indian Institute of Management, Shillong. She has done MS in Project management from Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom. She is gold medallist in BTech from Utkal University and also holds a bachelor’s degree in law. She has worked for Department of Atomic energy as Scientific Officer prior to PhD.

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Tharun Thomas
Email-ID : tharun@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

Dr. Tharun Thomas is a distinguished faculty member with a rich academic background and over 8 years of teaching experience. Holding a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering with a focus on Operational Excellence and an M.Tech in Manufacturing Technology, Dr. Tharun brings a unique blend of theoretical knowledge and practical expertise to the academic environment. Having served in key administrative positions such as Dean and HoD, Dr. Tharun demonstrates strong leadership and organizational skills. The professional journey includes significant contributions as an Assistant Professor at the Indian Naval Academy and Assistant Manager of International Netherlands Group.His research endeavors are notable, with numerous contributions published in esteemed top-tier journals, particularly in the domains of Quality Engineering and Operational Excellence. The commitment to staying at the forefront of research is further evident through active participation and paper presentations in international conferences. Currently associated with Rajagiri, Dr. Tharun Thomas continues to contribute to the field of Operational Excellence through teaching, research, and leadership roles.

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Vimal Krishnan R
Email-ID : vimal@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

Vimal Krishnan R holds a partnered Ph.D. in design from the Department of Design, IIT Hyderabad and the School of Design and Architecture, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia.  His doctoral study focused on the interplay of emotion and cognition in conceptual graphic design. His research articles have been published in leading international peer reviewed journals such as Design Studies and The Design Journal. He has also contributed chapters to the proceedings of several international conferences. He has presented papers and posters at several national and international conferences organized by University of Strathclyde, U.K., Swinburne University of Technology, Australia, Manchester Metropolitan University, U.K., Politecnico Di Milano, Italy, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru and IDC – IIT Mumbai. He has also completed a new media storytelling project supported by India Foundation for the Arts, Bengaluru, which leverages the power of emerging technologies like virtual reality. As a teaching assistant, he has delivered sessions on topics like ‘Design and Emotion’ (interaction design course-IIT Hyderabad), ‘Design, Empathy, VR’ (AI and Interaction design course – IIT Hyderabad), ‘Word and Image’ (Word and image course- IIT Hyderabad). His broad research interests include graphic design, visual design, visual culture, design cognition, and new approaches to studying the creative and reflective traditions of India.

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Vineeth V
Email-ID : vineethv@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : M.Tech

Vineeth is pursuing a Ph.D. in Water resources management from the Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. His area of research is Geospatial Analysis and Forecasting of Urban Groundwater Level using ML & Deep Learning models. He holds a master's Degree in Water Resources Engineering & Management from the National Institute of Technology, Surathkal, Karnataka (NITK), and a bachelor's Degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Kerala. His areas of research interest are water resources management, environmental economics, geospatial analysis, operations research, machine learning, and deep learning.

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Vineetha Prakash
Email-ID : vineethaprakash@rajagiri.edu
Qualification : Ph.D

Vineetha Prakash holds a PhD in Management from Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala; in the area of Human Resource Management. She was the recipient of the UGC Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) for doctoral research. She has published research papers in journals and also presented papers at conferences. Prior to moving to academia and research, she has gained industry experience of 3.5 years, having worked with two major multi-national organizations in the IT industry. Her research interests include work-life balance, employee well-being and employee engagement.

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