Plenary Session: 23rd December 2023

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Sanjay Kallapur, Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, India

Topic: The state of Accounting/Finance research in India, and how to get to the next level

Prof. Sanjay Kallapur is a faculty member at the Indian School of Business (ISB) since 2005. He was earlier an Associate Professor at the Krannert School of Management, Purdue University. His research in the area of financial and managerial accounting, auditing, corporate governance, and risk management. His research is published in top accounting journals and cited over 3,000 times. The American Accounting Association recently published his monograph on scientific inference in accounting research beyond the use of p-values.

He is the founding editor-in-chief of Accounting Theory and Practice, a research journal focusing on India, published by Elsevier. He has been an editor of The Accounting Review from 2008 to 2011. He serves on the Board of IDBI Bank in the area of risk management and audit. He previously served on the Board of the Life Insurance Corporation of India too. He was an International Council Member-at-large of the American Accounting Association from 2018 to 2021. He has served as an associate dean for almost a decade at ISB. He started the PhD-equivalent Fellow Programme in Management at ISB and has placed his students in faculty positions at the London School of Economics, IESEG Paris, Aalto University, University of Queensland, University of Western Australia, and IIM Udaipur. He has a PhD in Business Economics from Harvard Business School, and B.Com. and M.M.S. degrees from Mumbai University. He is professionally qualified as a Fellow Member of the Institute of Cost Accountants of India (FCMA).