Dr. Prashant Gupta

Dr. Prashant Gupta is a senior faculty member in Finance area at Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Trichy. More than two decades of experience (since 1996) of Dr. Prashant is a blend of industry, academics, research, training and consulting. He has served as Branch Head of Alpic Finance Ltd for around 5 years. He has shouldered many administrative responsibilities also like Program Director, Chief Proctor, Dean-Student Affairs and Dean, School of Management, Chairman Admissions (both at Gautam Buddha University and IMI, Delhi), Chairperson-PGDM Banking and Finance etc. Dr. Prashant was a member of GBU delegation that went to the UK for foreign academic collaborations in July 2009.

Dr. Prashant has also been actively involved in training and he has conducted various training programs for more than 40 companies for more than 4000 middle, senior and top-level executives of almost all Maharatna and Navratna PSUs like ONGC, IOC, Oil India, HPCL, NTPC, GAIL, NLC, Coal India etc. Dr. Gupta has also conducted many Director’s Conclaves for Board Members of various companies. In addition to this, Prof. Gupta has also organized international training programs and trained more than 1000 Foreign Government Officers/ executives of Private Companies of around 55 countries, sponsored by Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India. He has also trained more than 400 academicians including Professors, Vice Principals, Principals, Deans, Vice Chancellors and BoG Members of more than 80 Universities and Institutions including Central Universities, State Universities, Technology Universities and NITs.

Prof. Gupta has numerous publications in reputed refereed International and National Journals (including ABDC A*, A, B, C category and SSCI/SCOPUS indexed journals) and in the proceedings of the refereed International and National Conferences in his credit. He is a reviewer of various renowned academic journals. Dr. Gupta has presented research papers in various refereed National & International conferences, including at Rome, Italy,Osaka, Japan, Stockholm, Sweden, Lyon, France, New York, America, Bangkok, Thailand, ISB Hyderabad, IIM Ahmedabad, IIM Bangalore, IIM Calcutta, IIM, Kozhikode, IIM, Indore, IIM Sambalpur, IIT Bombay, IIT Kanpur etc. He has also chaired sessions in many international and national conferences. Dr. Gupta is also supervising doctoral students under him.

Prof. Prashant has wide experience of doing projects/consulting for both Private and Government organizations, including Department of Public Enterprise (DPE), Ministry of Heavy industry, GOI. He is also on the Advisory Board of three companies. He has been part of ‘selection panels’ for appointing faculty members at various universities and institutions and also have served and serving on Board of studies and Academic Councils and worked as a member of sub-committee by UGC on mapping online courses at Swayam portal.

Prof. Gupta is also a member & coordinator of Centre for Corporate Governance & Social Responsibility at IIM Trichy. His areas of specialization are accounting, corporate finance, taxation and corporate governance. He is also a trained faculty member by Ivy Business School, Canada and International Finance Corporation (IFC), World Bank Group, USA on Corporate Governance. Dr. Prashant has also served as a member of Accounting Standard Board, ICAI for year 2018-19. He is a member of committee on ‘Sustainable Finance’ at Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) and also part of the ‘World Working Group’ of ISO for developing new standard on Sustainable Finance – ISO–TC322. Currently Prof. Prashant is a Chairperson Executive Education and also a Chairperson Admissions at IIM Trichy.