Soumyabrata’s overarching topics of my interest include – Corporate Finance, Financial Economics, and International Trade

Presently, he is exploring the issue of human understandability of machine-generated results to predict bankruptcy. Additionally, he is exploring the indirect effects of the Indian Bankruptcy Code on the Indian Economy. Apart from research related to Bankruptcy, he has undertaken research on Exchange Rate Volatility.

Before joining the PhD program at IFMR, he has conducted research with last-mile women entrepreneurs, and small and marginal farmers, in his capacity as an Analyst in a Management Consulting firm.

1. 2021-2022         RE-EMERGING WORLD CONSULTING PRIVATE LIMITED

    Analyst, executing research studies, analysing & interpreting the findings and support in proposal writing.

2. 2019- 2020     FOOD AND AGRICULTURE CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE (FACE), CII

   Intern

   • Conducted research with farmers and agricultural marketing board officials for a project towards optimising usage and efficiency of agricultural markets in West Bengal, India

• Paper Presentations:

  1.  “Exchange Rate Uncertainty and India’s Bilateral Trade: A Gravity Model Approach” jointly with Dr. Devleena Majumdar at the 7th International Conference on Empirical Issues in International Trade and Finance conducted by Indian Institute of Foreign Trade

Soumyabrata has a strong affinity towards drama, music and art. He has been part of a theatre group in Kolkata where he has performed in eleven shows. He is still enthusiastic about the same and wishes to rejoin again at the appropriate time. Apart from this, in his leisure, he likes to rhyme words to compose poetries. On a trip, he will look for opportunities to capture the beauty of Nature with his camera. Thus, all things that is artistic and cultural, is what interests Soumyabrata.

Academic Background:

1. M.A. Economics, St.Xavier’s University, Kolkata
2. B.Sc. Economics, Bidhannagar Govt. College, Kolkata