A pioneering social entrepreneur and innovator, has transformed environmental engineering and waste management as chairman of the EETech Group. With a master's degree in environmental engineering and an honorary Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Technology, His journey began at age 11, leading to the creation of over 150 eco-products through Eco Eclectic Technology. Recognized internationally, he received the "Rotary International Alumni Global Service" award and was honored as a Covid Hero Youth Icon of the Year 2020 for his innovative recycling of PPE kits. Listed in Forbes' "Asia’s 30 Most Successful Social Entrepreneurs under 30" and "Top 10 Social Entrepreneurs of India," Binish’s impact extends to recycling over 3500 tonnes of industrial waste. His life and achievements are celebrated in a forthcoming book and Bollywood biopic, encapsulated in this quote: "There is nothing useless in this world; what might be waste to you is someone's asset."

Prof Satish Kumar has over 21 years of teaching and research experience at management institutes of repute in India and abroad. He has obtained his doctorate from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee in 2012. He has also qualified Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) in 2007. His teaching and research interest include Financial Accounting, Corporate Finance/Financial Management, Supply Chain Finance, Project Finance, Small Business Finance, Corporate Governance, Consumer Economics, Systematic Literature review, and Bibliometric analysis. He has over 260 research publications in his credit with work appearing in journals such as FT 50, A*, A category of ABDC journal ranking, and high impact factor journals. His research has appeared top tier journals such as Contemporary Accounting Research (FT 50), Review of Accounting Studies (FT50), Energy Economics (A*), British Journal of Management (ABS-4), Journal of Corporate Finance (A*), International Journal of Information Management (A*) a Financial Review (A), Economic Modelling (A), International Review of Financial Analysis (A), European Financial Management (A), European Journal of Finance (A), Journal of Service Research (A*), Industrial Marketing Management (A*), amongst others.

He is an Associate Editor of leading Business and Finance Journals such as Journal of Economic Survey (ABDC-A), International Review of Financial Analysis (ABS-3, ABDC-A), Research in International Business and Finance (ABS-2, ABDC-B), International Journal of Logistics Management- Review section (ABS-2, ABDC-A, IF =5.446), Qualitative Research in Financial Markets (ABS-1, ABDC-B)

Prof. Kumar has been awarded with following prestigious research and teaching award.

• Ranked #1 in bibliometric and literature review in Business Management (Scopus 2024)
• Basant Kumar Birla Distinguished Research Scholar Awardee 2023
• Careers360- Most Outstanding Researcher in Economics, Econometrics and Finance 2023
• AIMS International Outstanding Global Management Researcher Award 2024
• Dewang Mehta Best Professor in Financial Management (2016)
• AIMS International Best Researcher Award (2018)

Dr. P. Murugan has completed his PhD from Anna University, Chennai, and worked with IIM Shillong, Australian Council for Educational Research, New Delhi, and National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli.

He received the University of Hyderabad's chancellor's award for his contributions to both teaching and research. He has a passion for Research, and he has been a resource person for more than 230 workshops and FDP programs held at many universities and B-Schools in India (e.g., Amrita University-Coimbatore, Anna University-Chennai, CUSAT-Cochin, IIM-Indore, IIM-Shillong, IIT Bombay, K. J. Somaiya, NIT-Trichy, NMIMS-Mumbai, SPJIMR-Mumbai, Symbiosis University-Pune, TISS-Hyderabad, VIT-Vellore).

His expertise lies in the areas of Multivariate Data Analysis Techniques, Mediation Analysis, Moderation Analysis, Structural Equation Modeling, Latent Profile Analysis, and Item Response Theory. He is also familiar with data analysis software such as Mplus, AMOS, Python, R, JAMOVI, JASP, SPSS, Bluesky Statistics, KNIME, Conquest and IRT pro.

His papers are published in SSCI, ABS and ABDC-listed journals and currently associated with Career Development International Journal as a Senior Editor. He has developed online lecture videos for three of the courses offered through the SWAYAM platform.

Dr. Mukherjee earned his Ph.D. in linguistics and applied linguistics from Arizona State University in 2019. His doctoral dissertation investigates skin-color racism in the context of urban male population of the Indian subcontinent from a multimodal critical discourse analytic approach. Dr. Mukherjee holds an M.A. and an M.Phil. in linguistics from the University of Delhi, India. His current publications explore a variety of areas in theoretical and applied linguistics.

His research work has been acknowledged in the form of research awards, fellowships, grants, and conference presentations. Dr. Mukherjee’s present research interests include critical discourse analysis, colorism, multimodal analysis, language and gender, language and identity, conversation analysis, minimalist syntax, intercultural communication, and advertisement analysis.

As a qualitative researcher, Dr. Mukherjee finds multidisciplinary methodology as the perfect tool to investigate potential research topics. He is curious about social phenomena that are comprised of complex layers of human language, context, ideology, biases, culture, communication, and multiple modalities.

Dr. Sayantan Mukherjee has previously taught courses in argumentative writing, writing composition, writing across curriculum, English grammar, and linguistics to undergraduate students at Arizona State University and Chandler-Gilbert Community College in Arizona, US.