Nivedita Mandal, Associate Professor and founder Head of the Department of Economics at Adamas University. She specialises on econometrics, microeconomics and financial economics but traverses on a host of interdisciplinary areas like education economics and health economics. She received Doctoral Fellowship from Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), New Delhi. Previously Professor Mandal was associated with the Management Department, Koneru Lakshmaiah University and the Department of Management Studies, ICFAI University, Hyderabad. There are several reputed conference papers and journal papers to Professor Manda's credit – both national and international. Professor Mandal’s research outputs include papers in reputed peer reviewed journals like Business Science International Research Journal and conferences hosted by Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata and Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai. Currently she is in the Editorial Advisory Board of IGI Global’s book project. For outstanding performance at Adamas University, Professor Mandal has been awarded promotion before time.