IIM Sambalpur Faculty 2026: Profiles, Qualifications & Experience

Key Summary- Get to know the IIM Sambalpur Faculty 2026, including highly qualified faculty members like Anasuya Haldar, Ashutosh Tripathi, Hemachandra Padhan, Kakoli Sen, Soumya Kanta Mishra, Sujit Kumar Pruseth and several more, along with their qualifications and credentials.

IIM Sambalpur Faculty Overview

IIM Sambalpur Faculty 2026 consists of accomplished academics, researchers and industrialists with specialisation in various fields including Economics, Strategy, Operations, Information Systems, Human Resource Management, Public Policy and Supply Chain Management. The majority of the faculty possess doctorate or a fellowship in management program qualifications from renowned universities such as IITs, IIMs, JNU, XLRI and XIMB. In addition to their academic qualification most have rich industrial and research experience as well, thus giving students an overall educational experience via quality teaching and research.

1. Anasuya Haldar

Designation: Faculty, Public Policy & Economics

Learning: 

• PhD in Economics from the Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, NIT Rourkela.

• Pursued M.Phil. degree in Economics from the University of Calcutta.

• Completed M.Sc. degree in Economics (Econometrics specialisation) from the University of Calcutta.

• Selected for the UGC-NET Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) in Economics.

Academic Experience:

• Worked as a visiting CDE-IEG postdoctoral fellow in the Centre for Development Economics (CDE) of Delhi School of Economics (DSE).

2. Ashutosh Tripathi

Designation: Faculty of Economics

Learning:

• Possesses a Doctor of Philosophy degree in economics from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi (2011).

• Areas of Specialisation – Development Economics.

Academic Experience:

• Served as a FOX International Fellow at Yale University, USA to complete some of his PhD research.

• Has served as a visiting scholar at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Washington, D.C.

3. Hemachandra Padhan

Designation: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Learning:

• PhD and Post-Doctoral Equivalent Fellowship (PDEF), Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Madras.

• Postgraduate (MA) in Applied Economics from Pondicherry Central University.

• Postgraduate Diploma in Statistics and Research Methodology from Pondicherry Central University. 

Academic Experience:

Earlier worked as an Assistant Professor in economics in

• Indian Institute of Management Mumbai

• Symbiosis School of Economics

4. Kakoli Sen

Designation: Faculty of Economics

Learning:

• PhD in Management.

Academic Experience:

• 10 years of corporate experience and 17 years of academic experience.

• Served as the regional training manager for an Intel Inc. project.

• Completed consultancy projects internationally including in Africa.

• Association with premier institutes in India working on the education system in India, Britain and Europe.

5. Soumya Kanta Mishra

Designation: Faculty of Economics

Learning:

• Fellow in Management (FPM) from XLRI, Jamshedpur.

• Possesses an MBA degree from IIT Madras.

Academic Experience:

• Gained more than 12 years of industry experience.

• Worked with reputable companies such as-

• Mastek

• Odisha Power Transmission Corporation Limited (OPTCL)

• Sutherland

• Hinduja Global Solutions (HGS)

• Cleared the UGC-NET in management.

• Former faculty in the economics discipline of KIIT School of Management, Bhubaneswar.

6. Sujit Kumar Pruseth

Designation: Faculty of Management

Learning:

• Possesses MA, M.Phil and PhD degrees in Political Science from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

• Completed a course for the preparation of the Multidimensional Poverty Index at the University of Oxford.

Academic Experience:

• Taught as a regular faculty member at the National Law School of India University, Bengaluru.

• Taught as visiting faculty at the Indian Institute of Management Indore.

• Was part of the Expert Committee of the Kerala State Council for Science, Technology & Environment.

• Has worked on advanced management programmes for senior civil servants and officers of the Indian Armed Forces.

• Has worked on deputation in the Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Government of India.

7. Sumita Sindhi

Designation: Assistant Professor at IIM Sambalpur

Learning:

• Received a fellowship in the management programme from Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar.

• Educational qualifications include a BSc and an MSc Forestry from a premier Indian institution.

Academic Experience:

• Worked as regular faculty in the National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bengaluru.

• Worked as visiting faculty at the Indian Institute of Management Indore.

• Has been conducting several management development programmes for scientists working in different organisations of the Government of India.

8. Aarti Singh

Designation: Assistant Professor at IIM Sambalpur

Learning:

• Holds a PhD in Strategy Management from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.

Academic Experience:

• Attended the 42nd Faculty Development Program held at IIM Ahmedabad in pedagogy and research methods.

• Attended the Faculty Development Programme at IIM Indore in Case Method: Teaching, Writing & Simulation.

• Former Area Chair for Strategy at FORE School of Management, New Delhi.

• Senior Research Fellow & Research Scholar at Dept of Management Studies, IIT Delhi.

9. A. Manish Kumar

Designation: Assistant Professor in the information system

Learning:

• Holds a PhD in information systems from IIM Raipur.

• Doctoral research focused on the governance of social media platforms.

Academic Experience:

• Has over four years of teaching experience before joining IIM Sambalpur.

• Previously taught at-

• National Institute of Technology, Raipur

• Various engineering colleges

10. Akanksha Mishra

Designation: Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Management Sambalpur

Learning:

• Holds a PhD from IIM Mumbai.

• Completed a specialisation in artificial intelligence and machine learning from the University of Texas at Austin.

Academic Experience:

• Brings over seven years of industry experience in the healthcare sector.

• Previously served as head of corporate business at a leading multi-speciality tertiary care hospital in Mumbai.

• Worked with renowned healthcare organisations, including-

• Asian Heart Institute and Research Centre, Mumbai

• SevenHills Hospital, Mumbai

• Kohinoor Hospitals, Mumbai

11. Shweta
Designation: Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Management Sambalpur

Learning:

• A PhD from IIT Roorkee in the area of supply chain management.

• Educational qualifications: M.Tech in Industrial & Production Engineering from NIT Kurukshetra.

Academic Experience:

• Assistant Professor in the field of operations management at IIM Sambalpur.

• Had been working as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Management Sciences at IIT Kanpur.

• Had been working as a faculty member in the School of Business, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES), Dehradun.

• One year of post-PhD teaching experience before joining IIM Sambalpur.

12. Shubhi Gupta

Designation: Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Management Sambalpur

Learning:

• Earned a PhD in organisational behaviour and human resource management from the Department of Management Studies, IIT Dhanbad.

Academic Experience:

• Assistant Professor in Organisational Behaviour & Human Resource Management at IIM Sambalpur.

• Earlier connected with the FORE School of Management, New Delhi.

• Over four years of experience in academics, research and training.