Dr Rasananda Panda is working as an Associate Professor in the Economics Area at School of Petroleum Management. Prior to his joining IPMG, he was Associate Professor in the area of Business Economics and Finance at MICA. He started his career as a Trainee Academic Associate in the Economics area of IIMA and worked there for three years. He was a Lecturer and Senior Lecturer for five years with P.G. Centre for Management Studies of Gujarat University, Ahmedabad. Dr. Panda is a Ph.D. in Applied Economics from Utkal University, Orissa. He specializes in Macroeconomics and Applied Econometrics. His recent areas of interests are in studying the dynamics of business and economic environment of India along with other emerging markets, researching the issues relating to Gas Pricing and Political Economy of Oil. Other academic interest includes econometric analysis of consumer behavior models and economic analysis of Integrated Marketing Communications industries especially media and advertisement. He has also developed some kind of preliminary Brand Valuation Model (quantitative) for some of the Indian companies purely for academic purpose. He has participated at number of advanced level courses in Econometrics and Environmental Economics at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkotta. A regular resource person to different executive development programs relating to business environment, forecasting and data analysis, Dr Panda is a visiting faculty to a number of Universities and Management Institutes across India. He has participated and published several research based and thematic papers at University and National Level seminar proceedings, journals and some chapters in edited books on Environmental Economics. He has also provided the required consulting advice (project basis along with other faculty after leaving IIMA) to IIMA, Planning Commission, Orissa State Planning Board, CRISIL, IDFC, Co-ordinates, IL&FS to name a few in the field of infrastructure related issues. A vivid reader and analyst of post independence political and economic history of India, Dr. Panda is planning to pursue his D.Litt (Post–doctoral) at Utkal University on the topic “Political Economy of Policy Making in Orissa after 1936”. He has been lecturing on energy related issues at NIT Jalandhar, ADANI Knowledge Centre, Sabarmati Gas, Sardar Patel Institute of Economics Research, SPIPA on Hydrocarbon Management covering topics like gas pricing in India, Economics of Oil and Gas Sector and Geo-politics and Indian Energy Sector.

Specialization:
Macroeconomics, Business Environment.

Research Interest:
Political Economy of Policy Making.