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Dr Abhay Pant is currently working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management Studies at Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology Amethi and is on lien from IIT Guwahati. Prior to joining RGIPT Amethi, he has worked as an Assistant Professor at IIT Guwahati for over two years and at IIM Rohtak for over three years. He is a fellow (PhD) in management with specialisation in economics from the Indian Institute of Management Indore and holds an MA in financial economics from the esteemed Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics Pune and B Sc in economics from Symbiosis International University Pune. He is the recipient of the Symbiosis School of Economics Distinguished Alumni Award. His teaching interests include Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Financial Economics and Bank Management. His research areas of interests include Banking, public affairs, governance and technology adoption.

Education
B Sc (Economics) 2011 Symbiosis International University
MA (Financial Economics) 2013 Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics
PhD (FPM) Economics 2019 Indian Institute of Management Indore

Experience

December 2024 to Till Date Assistant Professor Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology, Jais, Amethi
October 2022 to December 2024 Assistant Professor Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati
August 2019 to October 2022 Assistant Professor Indian Institute of Management Rohtak

 

B Tech
  • Principles of Economics
MBA
  • Managerial Economics
Executive MBA
  • Energy Transition Pathways for Diverse Industries 
Research Interest
  • Application of DEA and Machine learning in banking
  • Efficiency and Productivity analysis
  • Corporate Governance in banks
  • Technology Adoption
  • Financial Markets
  • Liquidity Creation in banking
  • Public Affairs
Projects

Ownership, Board Characteristics, and Liquidity Creation: Evidence from Indian Banks
National Stock Exchange and Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research
Principal Investigator
2000 US dollars

Abhay’s research has been published in esteemed journal outlets in ABDC listed journals such as Journal of Asian Economics, Journal of the Operational Research Society, International Journal of Emerging Markets, Journal of Public Affairs, International Journal of Production Research, The Singapore Economic Review, Global Business Review, Indian Journal of Industrial Relations and Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication. He is an avid case writer and his case on Indian banking sector has been published in Ivey Publishing and also listed in Harvard repository. 

  • Symbiosis School of Economics Distinguished Alumni Award 2019-2020
  • Best paper award (3rd position) on 16-09-2023 for paper Presentation at S-Team conference organized by Symbiosis Centre for Management & Human Resource Development in collaboration with EM Normandie Business School France.

Dr Abhay Pant

Assistant Professor
Management Studies
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