Managing Petrochemicals Business

Pramod Paliwal has over 33 years of corporate and academic experience. An MBA and PhD in Management, he is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, UK. He has been with School of Management, Pandit Deendayal Energy University, Gandhinagar-Gujarat, India Since 2006 . In this profession since 1991, Dr. Paliwal's earlier associations have been with the ACC Limited Pacific Institute of Management, M.L.S. University, India, and the India Offshore Campus of Oxford Brookes University, UK. He has been featured in the 30th Pearl Anniversary Edition of Marquis Who's Who in the World, 2013.

Sonal Yadav is an Assistant Professor in economics and public policy area, Ahmedabad University, Ahmedabad. She did her BA (Hons.) and MA (Economics) with specialization in Economics of Human Resources from the M.S.University, Baroda-INDIA. Her MPhil research focused on labour market segmentation in India. She has a PhD degree in Economics from Gujarat University, Ahmedabad. Her doctoral thesis examines the impact of economic reforms on industrial labour concerning small scale engineering industries of Gujarat.

Sudhir Yadav has more than 34 years of experience including about seven years in industry and 27 years in academics. He has been with School of Management, Pandit Deendayal Energy University, Gandhinagar-Gujarat, India, since 2006. As an industry professional he has worked in marketing and international business divisions of various companies. Dr. Yadav has developed and delivered academic and training modules in the area of oil and gas operations management, oil and gas project management and oil and gas value chains.