Vinay Kandpal holds a Ph.D. in Management from the Department of Management Studies, Kumaun University, Nainital, Uttarakhand, India. He is an honours graduate in Commerce from the University of Calcutta and obtained his MBA with dual specialization in Finance and Marketing. He is pursuing his DLitt from the Kumaun University Nainital, India on a study of social and economic implications of financial inclusion in Uttarakhand. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of General Management, School of Business, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India. He has over 17 years of experience in academics. He has published more than 40 research papers and 10 book chapters in banking, digitalization, smart cities, infrastructure financing, CSR, corporate governance, fintech and infrastructure finance in leading refereed and indexed journals.
