Dr. Gaurav Kumar is a faculty in Finance and Accounting at School of Management and Entrepreneurship (SME), IIT Jodhpur. Previously, he was associated with IIM Rohtak. He has done postdoc in area of financial data analytics from University College Dublin (UCD). He has obtained PhD degree in Finance from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, and a MBA degree from Indian Institute of Foreign Trade (IIFT), Delhi. He has received many awards and grants including UGC Junior Research Fellowship (JRF). His research work is presented at various International conferences at American Economic Association (USA), ICMA centre (London), Corvinus University (Hungary), La Trobe University (Melbourne), IIM Ahmedabad, IIT Madras, IIT Kharagpur, and IIT Kanpur.
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