Dr. Geeta Nair is Professor and Head of Department of Business Economics at H. R. College of Commerce & Economics for over 3 decades. She is also Director of Research Initiatives, Chair of Board of Studies in Business Economics, HSNC University, and member of Board of Studies in Business Economics at University of Mumbai. She is the Centre Head of PhD Centre in Business Economics and has successfully guided 5 students, with 7 new students registered under her.
She has been awarded 5 Minor Research Projects of the University of Mumbai, 1 Major Research Project of the UGC, 2 Post-doctoral Indo-French collaborative research projects jointly by FMSH, Paris and the ICSSR & UGC, Delhi. She has been invited to several prestigious international conferences at the London School of Economics, UNESCO, SUNY-Cortland, Salzburg Resilience & Decent Work Conference; and has over 100 reputed publications with 4 books published by Palgrave Macmillan, UK. She is also listed in the ‘Marquis Who’s Who’ list in Economics.
During her Scholar-in-Residence Program Fulbright Fellowship for 4 months at New Jersey City University, she will start a new course on the Indian Economy and enrich the existing Economics syllabi by covering the developing country’s perspective. She will also conduct research in the area of “Cost-Benefit Analysis of Online Learning in Higher Education in the US- Learning Lessons for India”.