Dr. Neeraj Sharma | Faculty Management - Graphic Era (Deemed to be University), Dehradun

Dr. Neeraj Sharma
Professor

RESEARCH AREA
Sustainable development / sustainability & environment, Renewable energy, Smart cities, Supply Chain Management, Entrepreneurship / Business Planning, Strategy, Rural Marketing.

EDUCATION
->Ph. D. (Full-time): IIT Roorkee NET: UGC+ JAIIB: IIBF+ CAIIB: IIBF
->PGDM (IIM Shillong)
->UG: B.E. (Dr. B.R. Ambedkar University).
->NET: UGC+ JAIIB: IIBF+ CAIIB: IIBF

AWARDS/HONORS
->Best research presentation award at the ICSSR Sponsored Programme on Quantitative and Qualitative Methods for Research in Social Sciences during 25 July – 05 August 2022 at IIT Roorkee.
->Best Case Study Award at the Vision 2050: Agri-Business Perspective Conference organised by the National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management (Institution of National Importance) Ministry of Food Processing, Government of India at Sonipat and New Delhi during 17-19 November 2022
->First and Third prize winner at work presentation on Berinag Tea during Manchtantra Samarthya (Unnat Bharat Abhiyan, Government of India) on 02 April 2022 at IIT Roorkee.
->Letters of Appreciation from: i) DGP Uttarakhand for the consultancy project “Crime Victimization Survey” completed during 2019 ii) Dehradun District Social Welfare Officer for the consultancy project “Essay Competition on Drug Peddling” completed during 2020. Iii) Society Dehradun for “Best out of Household Waste” competition project during June 2021.
->Recipient of Senior Research Fellowship from MHRD, Government of India during Ph.D.
->Full scholarship/grant recipient for: i) ICRD conference participation at University of Bern in 2017 ii) MESD conference participation at Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA in 2017 iii) 2018 Global Marketing Conference at Tokyo.
->Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations (HPAIR) Fellow 2018.
->Winner: i) Times of India Maruti Suzuki WagonR Think Big Challenge 2009-10 with an award of INR 10,00,000 and a WagonR Car. Ii) IIM Indore social venture plan competition “Kalpavriksha” with INR 1,20,000 award in Ahvan 2009 iii) IIM Ahmedabad business venture plan competition “Masterplan” with INR 1,60,000/2 Lac award in Confluence 2009.

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
->Indian Institute of Banking & Finance (IIBF).
->Society for Marketing Advances (SMA).
->Institute for Science and Spirituality (ISS).
->EcoGroup Dehradun.

Apart from 5 years of full-time doctoral research experience on sustainability and smart cities, he has over 12 years cross-sectoral and cross-functional experience working with various organizations of repute spanning research, education, print media, logistics and supply chain, renewable energy, banking, IT and KPO/BPO industries. He has successfully handled business planning and analysis, supply chain management, strategy, marketing, operations, green sustainability, and renewable energy initiatives/projects. He firmly believes that education, more so from premier institutes like IITs and IIMs extends a responsibility as well as an opportunity to contribute towards sustainable development and the best utilization of one’s education and experience is to innovatively solve the most pressing challenges faced by society, synergizing one’s inherent orientation with profession. Recently he has done projects for Unnat Bharat Abhiyan, Uttarakhand Police Department and Dehradun Smart City Ltd. and also selected as a key resource person in the Uttarakhand Tourism Development Board Project “Carrying Capacity assessment of Auli from the point of view of Eco-sensitivity of the tourist destination”. A number of his articles and papers have been published in reputed peer reviewed ABDC/Scopus indexed journal publications. He also has 11 Patent publications as the sole inventor to his credit.