CMA (Dr.) Ashok Panigrahi is working as an Associate Professor in Finance at the Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS University), Shirpur. Being a First-Rank holder in M.Com, he holds an MBA, PGDBA, Ph.D., and D.Litt. in Commerce. He is a qualified Cost and Management Accountant (FCMA) from ICMAI. Having published more than a hundred research papers, he also chaired and participated in more than fifty conferences and seminars during his academic career spanning over two decades.