MBA in Business Analytics

Professor (Dr.) Ajay Shah studied at IIT, Bombay and USC, Los Angeles. He has held positions at The Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE), Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research (IGIDR), The Department of Economic Affairs at the Ministry of Finance, and National Institute for Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP). He does academic and policy-oriented research on India at the intersection of economics, law and public administration. His second book, co-authored with Vijay Kelkar, is “In Service Of The Republic: The Art And Science Of Economic Policy”, and was published in 2019 by Penguin Allen Lane. His areas of focus are macroeconomics, finance, health, and technology policy. His work can be accessed on his home page (http://www.mayin.org/ajayshah) and on the blog that he edits, http://blog.theleapjournal.org.

Susan Thomas has studied at IIT Bombay and the University of Southern California. She has also been faculty at the Indira Gandhi Institute for Development Research. Her research interests are in financial econometrics and market microstructure in India. Her engagement with markets includes designing the stock market index, real-time risk management system for the clearing corporation, the use of call auctions, analysing the growth of algorithmic trading on the quality of equity and commodities markets, the development of the zero coupon yield curve, and the implications of the quality of land records on credit markets. She has had various policy engagements with the Ministry of Finance including being a member of the Standing Council of the competitiveness of the Indian Financial Sector (2013 onwards), and the Bankruptcy Legislative Reforms Committee (2014-2015). She led the research team that designed and drafted the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (2016) and worked with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs on the organisational structure of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India and the National Companies Law Tribunal.

Professor (Dr.) Pavan is appointed as Professor of Practice in Jindal Global Business School. His applied research interests are in learning innovations that leverage immersive engagement and bio-feedback based objective measures for better strategic thinking, and in better appreciating the role of subconscious cognitive processes for adaptive strategic decisions under uncertainty. Pavan is a serial entrepreneur with a strong track record of investor returns and successful exits including start-ups, high growth and turn-arounds. He also has 20+ years of international Senior Partner level corporate advisory experience in Country and Regional Head roles across Australia, USA, South East Asia, and India with Strategy consulting and Private Equity firms such as Halcyon Partners, AT Kearney, Stern Stewart & co. and the Boston Consulting Group.

Jeremy Wade is an Associate Professor of Practice and Founding Director of the Jindal Centre for Social Innovation + Entrepreneurship. Jeremy is a co-founder of armadillo.digital, a venture studio and digital creative agency based in India. Originally from the USA, Jeremy began his career working with the United States Department of Treasury.