Dr. V.S.P. Rao is a gold medalist at undergraduate and post-graduate level(s). He has authored and co-authored 15 books and has dozens of articles, papers, research publications to his credit. He has been awarded several government research grants to pursue studies in the fields of Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour. Dr. Rao has conducted several training programmes for executives on behalf of reputed companies in India. A Fellow of Institution of Managers and BIMS, a former Director of MIM, Lucknow as well as Hyderabad and a former Professor at IMT, Ghaziabad. He is currently pursuing research in the areas of HRM, OB and General Management.