Gopal.v

Biography

Gopal.V is currently a faculty member in finance and accounting area. He has done his Fellow Programme in Management with specialization in Finance and Control and Minor as MIS from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. He is a qualified Cost Accountant as well as a qualified company secretary. Though his basic education was in production engineering from College of Engineering, Guindy, he has diversified into various areas such as finance, accounting, strategic management and corporate laws. He started his career with Lucas TVS Ltd. As a trainee engineer in production engineering department. After his doctoral programme at IIM-C, he joined XIM Bhubaneswar. AT XIMB, he was instrumental in conceptualizing the first Investment Fair, way back in 1992. From there, he moved on to Goa Institute of Management. There he held positions of area chair, admissions chairman and part time programme chairperson. Apart from regular academic administrative roles, he was always on all committees regarding formulation of rules for admission, Post graduate programme, faculty manual as well as implementation of pay commission recommendations. At GIM he introduced a new elective Pricing Strategies, which was the first time such a course was introduced in India. He also pioneered the concept of separating Working Capital Management course for finance and non-finance specializations. He has been a visiting scholar to UFSIA, Antwerp, Belgium from GIM.

Research Interest

Finance & Accounting