Dr. Richa Goel is Associate Professor-Economics and International Business at SCMS, Symbiosis University Noida. She is a Gold Medalist in her Master of Economics with dual specialization at master level accompanied with an MBA in HR and also with dual specialization at graduate level with Gold Medalist in Economics Honors also with Bachelor of Law. She is Ph.D. in Management where she had worked for almost 6 years on area of Diversity Management. She has a journey of almost 21+ years in academic. She is consistently striving to create a challenging and engaging learning environment where students become life-long scholars and learners. She has to her credit many Scopus Indexed Books including Research Papers in UGC, SCOPUS, ABDC publications in reputed national and international journals accompanied with hundreds of Research participation in International/National Conferences including FDP, MDP and Symposiums. She is serving as a member of review committee for conferences and journals. She is handling many Scopus International Peer Reviewed Journals as Lead Editor for regular and special issue journals. She is acting as the Associate Editor & special issue Editor of Journal of Sustainable Finance and Investment, JSFI is abstracted and indexed in the Chartered Association of Business Schools Academic Journal Guide (2018 edition) and Scopus, Print ISSN: 2043-0795 Online ISSN: 2043-0809. According to SCImago Journal Rank (SJR), this journal is ranked 0.52 under Q1 category. Her area of interest includes Development & Sustainable Economics, Economics Business Restructuring, Fusion of Technology with International Business. Prof. (Dr.) S. K. Baral has done his M. Com, LL. B, MBA and Ph.D. (Awarded in the year 1999) from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India. As an active academician, he has been closely associated with several foreign Universities, such as Southampton Solent University, United Kingdom, University of Washington, Bothell, USA, University of Zululand, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa and Eudoxia Research University, New Castle, USA for multiple academic activities. He is an Accredited Management Teacher (AMT) recognised by All India Management Association (AIMA), New Delhi, India. He has completed QIP in ‘Professional Ethics’ from IIT-Kharagpur, India. He has been recognized as a CEGR Certified Academic Leader. He has contributed 146 Research Papers in different referred National and International Journals (including Scopus, Emerald, IGI Global, ABDC, Taylor & Francis, Sage, Springer and UGC Care Listed, etc.) to his credit. He has authored 14 books and edited 13 books. He has published 4 e-Resources (e-gyansagar) and 4 study materials for different universities. He has conferred with 27 National and International Awards. He has earned 06 Indian Copyrights in his favour to his credit. He is also a NAAC Assessor (Peer-team Member), Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India. He has contributed an important National Level Policy Paper on Higher Education Scenario of Chhattisgarh State of India to the Ministry of HRD, Government of India. He is the Chief Editor of ‘Splint International Journal of Professionals’, a Quarterly Published International Journal, ISSN 2349 – 6045 (P) 2583-3661 (O), abstracted and indexed @ ProQuest, USA (part of Clarivate), J-Gate, Indian Citation Index & International Scientific Indexing since 2014 (URL: https://www.indianjournals.com/ijor.aspx?target=ijor:sijp&type=home). He has 28 years of rich experience in academia by holding several important positions at various levels. Dr. Tapas Mishra: Professor & Head of Department Banking and Finance, Professor of Banking and Finance, Director of the Centre for Empirical Research in Finance and Banking.Prof. (Dr.) Tapas Mishra is currently a Professor and Head of Banking and Finance at theSouthampton Business School, where he lectures in the subject areas of Quantitative Finance andAdvanced Time Series Modelling. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA).Previously he held academic position (as Associate Professor of Economics and Time SeriesEconometrics) at the Economics Department in Swansea University where he taught a range ofsubjects, which include Advanced Macroeconomic Analysis, Econometric Theory, MathematicalEconomics and Applied Economics. He has led several research projects awarded by both national and international funding bodies,such as the Leverhulme Trust, the Ford Foundation and Winrock International, the SwedishResearch Council, and the European Commission’s FP6 Framework. His papers have beenpublished in leading scientific journals, such as Nature, World Development, Social IndicatorsResearch, Journal of Forecasting, Journal of Macroeconomics, European Journal of Finance,Manchester School, and Economics Letters, among others. His recently published book onDynamics of Distribution and Diffusion of New Technologies (published by the Springer) has beendownloaded over 2800 times. His research has been presented at refereed national and internationalconferences, such as the Royal Economic Society, the American Economic Association, EconomicHistory Association, EURAM, Econometric Society, and Science and Public Policy Conference atthe Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Dr. Vishal Jain is presently working as an associate professor at the Department of Computer Science andEngineering, School of Engineering and Technology, Sharda University (Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh,India). Before that, he has worked for several years as an associate professor at Bharati Vidyapeeth’sInstitute of Computer Applications and Management (BVICAM), New Delhi. He has more than 15 years ofexperience in academics. He obtained PhD (CSE), MTech (CSE), MBA (HR), MCA, MCP, and CCNA. He hasauthored more than 120 research papers in reputed conferences and journals, including Web of Scienceand Scopus. He has authored and edited more than 35 books with various reputed publishers, includingDe Gruyter, Elsevier, Springer, Apple Academic Press, CRC, Taylor and Francis Group, Scrivener, Wiley,Emerald, and IGI-Global. His research areas include information retrieval, semantic web, ontologyengineering, data mining, ad hoc networks, and sensor networks. He received a Young Active MemberAward for the year 2012–13 from the Computer Society of India, Best Faculty Award for the year 2017, andBest Researcher Award for the year 2019 from BVICAM, New Delhi.
