Kushankur Dey

Kushankur Dey is an Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Management Lucknow and joined the institute in September 2019. He has held the Chairmanship of the Centre for Food & Agribusiness Management of IIM Lucknow from September 21, 2020, to September 20, 2022. Before joining IIM Lucknow, he served on the faculty of IIM Bodh Gaya and a few private management institutions for about five years.

He is a Fellow in Rural Management (equivalent to a PhD) from the Institute of Rural Management Anand. He is a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Centre for Management in Agriculture, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. He has more than 20 peer-reviewed research articles to his credit. Some of them have appeared in journals of international and national repute, namely Journal of Cleaner Production, Journal of Behavioural and Experimental Finance, Journal of Rural Studies, Economic and Political Weekly, Applied Economics Letters, Journal of Agribusiness in Developing and Emerging Economies, Int. J. of Trade and Global Markets, Int. J. of Financial Markets and Derivatives, Global Business Review, among others. He has about 70 Opinion-Editorials/ columns in the Hindu Business Line, Financial Express, and Business Standard, Indian Management, and Business World, in addition to several book chapters and teaching cases, including Ivey Publishing, SAGE Business Cases, Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies, and Asian Case Research Journal to his credit.

Dey has undertaken several funded research and consultancy projects, namely concurrent evaluation of MSP-based foodgrains procurement in Uttar Pradesh, concurrent evaluation for the implementation of National Food Security Act (2013) Phase II for Uttar Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, and Uttarakhand, stakeholders' survey of mentha oil futures market at the auspices of Multi Commodity Exchange of India, evaluation study of grant-based financing for cluster development of MSMEs, and impact evaluation of blended financed Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA) projects for the last five years. Notably, The Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare funded research project titled Farmers' participation in India's futures market: potential, experience and constraints are one of his long-drawn research works brought out by the Springer Nature in association with the Centre for Management in Agriculture of IIMA in August 2021.

Current Research Interests

• Sustainability and green financing
• Blockchain and IoT for sustainable e-agriculture
• Agricultural markets, pricing, and trade
• Risk Management in Agribusiness

Awards & Honours

• Best Researcher Award for the category ‘International Research Awards on New Science Inventions’ conferred upon by Science Father 2022, a Scifax company registered and approved by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs.
• Best Faculty Award under the aegis of International Scientist Awards 2022 on Engineering, Science, and Medicine conferred by VD Good Technology Factory.
• Best Researcher Award for ‘the contribution and honourable achievement in innovative research’ conferred upon by Science Father 2021, a Scifax company registered under the Ministry of Corporate Affairs.
• Best Researcher Award for the category ‘International Research Awards on New Science Inventions’ conferred upon by Science Father 2020, a Scifax company registered and approved by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs.
• Recipient of the Sitaram Rao Livelihood Case Study Award (the first runner-up) 2019. Sponsored by the Access Development Services, New Delhi, and Vaya Trust.