Prof. Naliniprava Tripathy is currently working at Indian Institute of Management Shillong. Prior joining to IIM Shillong, she has served as Associate Professor at Indian Institute of Management Indore. She holds M.Com, M. Phil., PhD., and D.Lit Degree in Management. She was also the recipient of Postdoctoral Research Awards in Management and Fellowships of University Grant Commission, Government of India, New Delhi. She has twenty years of teaching, corporate research and consultancy experience. She has written six books and more than eighty research papers to her credit. She is also conferred gold medal for India by ABI USA for outstanding contribution in research. She has presented research papers in international conference at Seoul. Colombo, New York, Sydney, Dubai, London, Oman and Boston. Currently, she is International Editorial Board Member of International Journal of Economics and Management, Malaysia; International Journal of Social and Economic Research, SAARC Journal of Current Social Research, International Journal of Business and Development Research; Cambodia; International Journal of Business and Accountancy; Malaysia; International Journal of Business and Emerging Markets Inderscience Publisher, UK.