School of Management - Centre of Excellence

Name: Center of Excellence in Finance

Vision Statement: To act as a knowledge sharing and dissemination platform for all interested in Finance

Mission Statement: To provide a platform to collaborate, engage and promote training, research and consultancy in the area of finance

Outcome: To be able to organise conference and conduct training and research in the area of finance

Industry Tie-up : ACCA, UK; MCX, India; NSE, India; CMT, USA; CSC Academy, India.

Advisory Board: Mr. Sidheshwar Bhalla, Partner and National Leader-GRC Mazars India; Prof Madhu Vij, Faculty of Management Studies, DU, Delhi, India; Dr. Maxim Dolinsky University of Delaware, Newark, USA; Prof. Alok Pandey, Dean SoM, GDGU; Prof. Vandana Mehrotra, GDGU; Prof. Suneel Arora, GDGU; Mr. Girish Ahuja, GDGU; Ms. Sunrita, GDGU; and Mr. Abhishek Jha, GDGU.

Expertise available in-house: Prof. Alok Pandey, Prof. Vandana Mehrotra, Prof. Suneel Arora, Mr. Girish Ahuja, Ms. Sunrita and Mr. Abhishek Jha

Activities done in the past: ‘The FinTech Conference: A Game Changer for Financial Sector’ was organised on 18 Nov 2021, for which the speakers were - Shri Saurabh Mishra Jt. Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Govt of India; Shree Anil Bhardwaj, Advisor, TRAI; Mr. Abhilash Misra, CEO of NSE Academy (a wholly owned subsidiary of NSE); Prof. Madhu Vij, FMS Delhi; Prof. A Vinay Kumar, IIM Lucknow; Mr. Karun Thareja, CMPO, Faircent.com; Mr. Santosh Nair, Sr. VP, a prominent Dubai Bank; Mr. Sanjeev Sharma, Co-Founder, Sqrrl FinTech; Mr. Rishikesh Patankar, COO, CSC Academy; Mr. Sougata Basu (Founder CashRich); Prof. Prabina Rajib, IIT Kharagpur; Mr. Ashish Aggarwal, NASSCOM; Ms. Richa Mukherjee, Director, PayU; Mr. Utkarsh Saxena, Sr V.P RBL Bank; Prof. Amitabh Gupta, DU; Mr. Pramod Gupta, CFO, ARCIL; Prof. Anshul Verma, SPJIMR; Mr. Deepak Mehta, Head, UTI Asset Management; and Prof. Sheri Markose, Essex University, UK.

Future plans: Selected tracks at the International Conference to be conducted on 20-21 June 2022; Launch MBA Fintech in collaboration with NSE Academy in year 2022; joint certification with MCX and training programs with CSC Academy.