Ph.D. from Georgia State University’s Andrew Young School of Policy Studies in Atlanta, USA.
Teaches courses in behavioural and experimental economics, development economics, and public policy at MDAE.
Dr. Shagata's work has a strong focus on the role of gender, social contexts and norms on policies. His research examines how to reduce the risk of default among microfinance borrowers, and sheds new light on the conventional wisdom that women are better borrowers than men in microfinance.
Prof. Mukherjee has presented his research at the University of Chicago, George Mason University, International Food Policy Research Institute in Washington D.C, Symposium on Economic Experiments in Developing Countries in Norwich, UK, Spanish Economic Association Meetings in Bilbao, Spain, Delhi School of Economics and Indian Statistical Institute, Delhi, Centre for Experimental Social Sciences, Nuffield (University of Oxford) – FLAME among others.
Prof. Mukherjee enjoys teaching in an interactive way and teaches courses in Microeconomics, Behavioral and Experimental Economics, and Public Policy of Development at the Academy. Prof. Mukherjee has a joint appointment with the Mumbai School of Economics and Public Policy, University of Mumbai.
Dr. Sandhya Krishnan
Assistant Professor
Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam
MA in Economics from the University of Mumbai
Teaches courses in the areas of applied econometrics and development economics
Sandhya has earlier worked at the Mumbai School of Economics and Public Policy, University of Mumbai, at the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy and at the EPW Research Foundation in different capacities. She has also been a visiting faculty at the National Institute of Securities Markets and Quant RoboAnalytics Solutions, where she has taught courses on data science and business analytics. Sandhya has published papers in journals such as the Economic and Political Weekly and with publishing houses such as Routledge.
Shailesh Goregaokar
Visiting Faculty
Masters in Mathematics and a Masters in Computer Science from IIT Bombay
Worked in the IT industry for almost 30 years before taking up his passion, teaching
As a part of the corporate world, he had organized and taught in technical training programs.
He is also part of visiting faculty at St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai where he has taught cross-faculty courses in Mathematics for the Economics, Life Science and Microbiology Departments.
His style of teaching is to drill-in concepts in an intuitive way making use of thought-provoking puzzles, examples and class participation. His class sessions build students’ aptitude in the subject while being thoroughly enjoyable.
Amlesh Kanekar
Visiting faculty
Electrical Engineering - Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI)
Worked as Senior Director, Digital Banking Consulting, Oracle Financial Services Software
Amlesh Kanekar has 30 years of experience in Information Technology in the Banking & Finance domain. His first 8 years were in Tata Unisys Limited (now merged into Tata Consultancy Services), followed by the next 10 years as an international independent consultant on Unisys products and finally the last 12 years with Oracle Financial Services Software Limited (OFSS). His Leadership roles include Global Consulting Head for Digital Banking, Product development head for Digital Banking, Product QA head for Core Banking and Digital Banking, Delivery head for the virtual bank in Japan for Core Banking & Digital Banking
Dr. Durgesh Tinaikar
Visiting Faculty
Electrical Engineering from Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI)
Master in Management Studies (MMS) (Finance) from Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies (JBIMS)
Ph.D. from “The American University”, Washington, D.C.
Dr. Tinaikar has been a career banker with more than three decades of banking experience mainly in Corporate & Investment Banking and has worked with ICICI, The World Bank and IFC, Washington D.C., and international banks such as Standard Chartered Bank, Societe General – The French & International Bank, DBS Bank Ltd. in India and Singapore and Mizuho Bank Ltd. belonging to the Japanese Financial Group Mizuho where he worked for almost 13 years in Singapore and India. Prior to his retirement in March this year from Mizuho Dr Tinaikar was Managing Director & Head of Corporate & Institutional Banking for India. He has also done stints with the erstwhile Tata Engineering & Locomotive Company Ltd. (now Tata Motors) as a graduate trainee engineer and Larsen & Toubro as Jt. General Manager - Office of the Chairman & MD. He has also attended an Executive Program in investment banking and corporate finance at Kellog School of Management, Northwestern University, Chicago.
Since the year 1990 after he returned from the U.S. Dr. Tinaikar has been associated as visiting faculty in the subjects “International Finance” and “Derivatives & amp; Risk Management” with several reputed India B-Schools like JBIMS, SPJIMR, IIM-A and IIM-B.
Dr. Tinaikar is a recipient of several awards such as Chairman’s Special Award at Standard Chartered Bank and President’s award on several occasions at Mizuho Bank for his contribution to business development.
Suneel Sarswat
Visiting Faculty
Masters in Applied Statistics from Indian Institutes of Technology Bombay (IITB)
Masters in Computer Science from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR)
Pursuing Ph.D. from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) in School of Theoretical Computer Science (STCS)
Suneel Sarswat has more than 12 years of teaching experience. Earlier he had worked for Bank of America as a Research Associate for a hedge fund group. He teaches machine learning, data science, computational finance portfolio optimization, numerical methods, and simulations. He has worked on several research and corporate projects.
He has also taught/conducted corporate training programs. His current research interest is in formal methods and theoretical computer science applications in finance.
Avadhoot Nadkerni
Visiting Faculty
He has also taught at the St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai and the SNDT Women’s University; and, on a visiting basis at the IIMs, Ahmedabad and Indore, and the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune. His areas of interest include International Economics, Macroeconomics and Econometrics.
Aritra Chakrabarty
Visiting Faculty
With over five years of experience in the development sector, Aritra Chakrabarty has worked on various social issues and helped organizations create their research designs. He hold a post graduate degree in economics with specialization in development studies from Symbiosis International University. Currently, he is working on sustainability consulting, an area of deep research interest.
Shailesh Dhuri
Visiting Faculty
Executive Director at Decimal Point Analytics
Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore
Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) from the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts of India (ICFAI)
Shailesh Dhuri, a financial professional, has more than 13-years of experience in Fund Management, Trading, and Research. He heads strategy and new product development at Decimal Point Analytics. He also started India’s first Money Market Mutual Fund and first private sector primary dealership fund. He was also part of the team to start India’s first private sector commercial bank.
Santanu Sengupta
Head – Treasury Economics and Strategy, Reliance Industries Limited
Mr. Santanu Sengupta heads the Macroeconomics & Strategy Team at Reliance Industries Ltd.
He is responsible for communicating the macro-economic and financial market views and forecasts on India and Global economies across the firm.
He is a regular panellist / speaker at various discussion forums and seminars on topics spanning across financial markets and public policy, like Reuters, NCAER, and various academic institutions.
He started his career with Goldman Sachs Asia and worked in investment strategy spanning across Economics and Portfolio strategy in Hong Kong.
He earned an M.S. in Quantitative Economics from Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, and a B.Sc. in Economics from Presidency College, Kolkata.
