Rajiv Nair

Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India

Title: Galvanising UN Sustainable Development Goal 5 by utilising Corporate Social Responsibility: Financial Inclusion as a sine qua non for Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equality

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Biography

Rajiv Nair, former Principal of the School of Business (Amritapuri campus), is currently a research professor at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India. His diverse explorations, with Ph.D. scholars and various collaborators, are a testament to the scope of his interests in financial transparency, sustainable finance, women’s empowerment, gender parity, the nexus between CSR and UN Sustainable Development Goals, strategic and general management, circular economy, dynamics of self-help groups, corporate culture, and agency costs. His expositions have been featured in premier journals such as Pacific Basin Finance Journal (ABDC – A), International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship, Sustainability, World Development Perspectives. In addition to his published contributions, his research has also been showcased in symposia such as Financial Markets and Corporate Governance (FMCG), Accounting and Accountability in Emerging Economies Conference (AAEE), IMRA-IIMB and as keynote speaker at World Conference on Business, Management, Finance, Economics and Marketing (WCBMFEM), etc. Prior to joining Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham in 2013, Rajiv held senior management positions for almost 25 years at blue-chip multinational companies such as Unilever, Coca-Cola, Fonterra, etc.  He has a Ph. D. from Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. as well as a double Masters – an M. Sc. in Analysis, Design and Management of Information Systems from the London School of Economics and Political Science (UK) and an MBA (Finance) from the University of Stirling, Scotland (UK). He is a qualified Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, (CIMA, UK).

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