Dr. Madhusudan Karmakar is Professor in the area of Finance and Accounting at IIM Lucknow. And also the ONGC Chair Professor of Financial Management. He has successfully completed “Global Colloquium on Participant-Centred Learning”, program organized by Harvard Business School during July – August, 2010 at Harvard Business School. He has been doing research for over 25 years in the areas of financial markets, financial time series analysis and financial risk management. He is a reviewer of many national and international journals. He has guided many doctoral level students in the area of Finance and Accounting at IIM Lucknow. He has conducted various Executive Programmes on Accounting and Finance at IIM Lucknow