International Financial Management Conference (IFMC)
Chandragupt Institute of Management Patna, invites papers from academicians, professionals, policy makers having common interest in “Sustainable Finance and Responsible Investment” for the International Financial Management Conference (IFMC) 2025. The one-day conference hosted by Chandragupt Institute of Management Patna aims to provide an excellent platform for discussing emerging issues and future challenges on selected theme and allied areas of finance.
Although the submissions can be made in any area of finance and accounting, IFMC 2025 encourages papers on following topics in finance:
- Screening and integration: sustainability
- Shareholder Engagement
- Sustainability, equilibrium and efficient frontier
- Green taxonomy
- Active Ownership
- Value, voice and exit
- Appraisal of green and brown portfolios
- Pricing of carbon risk
- Disclosures, benchmarking and market discipline
- Climate resilient solutions
- Board ideology
- Institutional activism and future payoffs
- Impact investing
- ESH portfolio/green bonds
- Societal accruals
- Greenium
- Chief sustainability officers and alpha
- Gender diversity and firm performance
- Agricultural Finance
- Tourism Finance
- SME Financing and Challenges
- Microfinance
- Fundamental Indexation and sustainability
Chandragupt Institute of Management Patna was inaugurated in 2008 by His Excellency the then Vice-President of India, Md. Hamid Ansari, as the dream-project of Hon’ble Chief Minister of Bihar, Shri Nitish Kumar to resurrect the ancient educational glory of Bihar. It is an autonomous institute of excellence in management education, consultancy and research set up by the Government of Bihar on the lines of Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs). CIMP offers full time AICTE Approved, NBA accredited and AIU recognized Post- Graduate Diploma in Management Programme; full time AICTE approved Fellow Programme in Management (FPM) and Executive Programme in Management (EXPM) for the officials of Government of Bihar and executives/managers from various industries/corporate. Apart from this, CIMP also provides short-term Training Programme, Research and Consulting services for various departments, agencies and bodies of the government and the corporate.
CIMP is in Rank Band: 101-125 (Management Category) by NIRF 2023 in the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) India Rankings 2023. CIMP stands in top 100 in Indian Institutional Ranking Framework (IIRF).
Patron:
Prof. (Dr.) Rana Singh, Director, CIMP
Chairperson:
Prof. (Dr.) Santosh Kumar, CIMP
Convenor:
Prof. (Dr.) Ranjit Tiwari, CIMP
Secretary General:
Prof. (Dr.) Rajeev Ranjan, CIMP
Members:
- Prof. (Dr.) Sayan Banerjee
- Prof. (Dr.) Sriranga Vishnu, CIMP
- Prof. (Dr.) Ankit Sharma, CIMP
Prof. (Dr.) Prashant Gupta
Finance and Accounting, Indian Institute of Management, Nagpur
Dr Prashant Gupta is a Professor at Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Nagpur, has earlier served with Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Trichy. He has shouldered many administrative responsibilities such as Dean, School of Management, Dean Student Affairs, Chairman Admissions, Program Director/Chair of PG Programs etc at different institutions served earlier. His more than 25 years of experience is a blend of industry and academics. Prof. Prashant has conducted various training programs for more than 40 companies, including board level programs, for more than 5000 middle, senior and top-level executives of almost all big PSUs like ONGC, IOC, Oil India, HPCL, NTPC, GAIL, NLC, Coal India L&T, TVS Credit, etc. Dr Gupta has also organized international training programs and trained more than 1000 Foreign Government /Private Sector Executives of around 55 countries, sponsored by Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India. Many International and National research publications of repute are to his credit. He has presented many papers in refereed International and National conferences in India at various IIMs, IITs, ISB and abroad at more than 10 countries. Prof. Gupta is on the Advisory Board of three companies and Economic Council of India (ECI). He is also a trained faculty member by Ivy Business School, Canada and International Finance Corporation (World Bank Group Company), USA on Corporate Governance. He sits on various academic bodies of Universities and Institutes and has also served a board member at Accounting Standard Board (ASB) of India. Currently He is a member of Accounting Standard Board, ICAI for year 2018-19. He is a member of committee on ‘Sustainable Finance’ at Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) and also part of the ‘World Working Group’ of ISO for developing new standard on Sustainable Finance - ISO–TC322.ble.
Prof. (Dr.) Anju Singh
Sustainability, Indian Institute of Management, Mumbai
Prof. Anju Singh has completed Ph.D. from Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering (CESE) IIT Bombay in 1994. She worked as Scientist on several national and international projects in the area of Environmental Management at IIT Bombay. She joined as faculty in NIIM Mumbai (earlier NITIE) from 2003 and has been teaching business sustainability, energy management, sustainability standards and guidelines etc. She has published and presented over 200 research papers in journals and conferences. She has worked extensively in many national and international network research projects including of European Union on water, wastewater, carbon, climate change, biodiversity, LCA use, e-waste management etc. Interacted with industry on several consulting assignments related to sustainability, CSR etc. She is CII-ITC sustainability Award Assessor for several years. She was visiting faculty to Asian Institute of Technology AIT, Thailand in 2016. She received the Woman of Substance Award, Women Education Leader Award in July 2019 from World Education Congress, Best team CII-ITC Sustainability Awards in 2017 and several best paper awards. She is ex Assoc Dean Infra and planning, ex Chair Admissions, ex Professor In Charge International Relations, ex Chair Women’s cell.
Mr. Som Sekhar Mishra
International Shipping & Logistics FZE (A Tata Company)
Mr. Mishra, a result driven professional having more than 20 years of experience in export & import including Logistics and Shipping industries is competent in the areas of strategy planning, shipping operations, cargo operations, logistics, managing port interface, export/ import operations, contract management, compliances, customer relationship and analytical assessment to strengthen shipping & logistics operations.
Mr. Mishra started his career in The Shipping Corporation of India as TNOC in August 1995 & went up the ladder of Second Mate.
Then he joined as Third Officer in the United Ocean Ship Management Pte Ltd & worked up to the rank of Chief Officer in the company.
Further, he served as Chief Officer (Second- in- command) on VLOCs (Very Large ore carriers) followed by Master Mariner in the Anglo Eastern Ship Management.
Then, he worked as Senior Manager- Operations in Visakha Container Terminal Pvt. Ltd., Vishakhapatnam, India.
His journey continued as a General Manager, Seaways Shipping & Logistics in Kolkata, India.
He further joined Tata Steel and served as Head-Outbound Shipping and Shipping Operations followed by Head- Shipping Operations in Kolkata, India.
Currently, he is working as Chief Executive Officer - International Shipping & Logistics FZE (A Tata Company) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
He is experienced in managing tasks like sales, administration and costing and has in depth knowledge of understanding of policies and procedures related to export / import clearances and consignments.
Mr. Mishra, an Adroit in managing NVOCC Operations, Feeder Operations, Freight Forwarding & Break Bulk cargo management with in-depth understanding of EXIM policy, customs & excise rules and regulations have comprehensive knowledge of providing customer service to an assigned base of accounts and preparing Pre / Post Import and Export documents as per defined requirements.
He has an increased competitive presence through business development and cost reduction methodologies producing superior results for stakeholders.
Further, he has proven record of successfully handling the emergencies like Engine Room Fire, ME failure, Medical emergencies with the multitasking ability to develop and maintain the existing customers' network and effectively managing the supply chain management operations
Mr. Govind Shanbogue
Santander Corporate and Investment Banking, UK
Govind Shanbogue serves as a Managing Director in Santander Corporate and Investment Banking Division. Govind has more than 15yrs of investment banking experience.
Currently, he is part of Financial Sponsor coverage team at Santander and is responsible for Sponsor M&A across Europe beyond covering clients
He joined Santander in Jan-2023 after spending 13.5 years at Goldman Sachs
During his time at Goldman Sachs, Govind has worked across various sectors including Telecom, Infrastructure, Media, Fintech, Industrials, Consumers supporting Sponsor clients and listed companies
He has executed more than 50 deals to the value of more than $60 billion
He has been in London since end of 2009, before which he spent a 1 year in India during his investment banking career
Govind is a qualified Chartered Accountant from India and holds an MBA in Finance
Mr. Ashish K Khatua
JSW Steel Ltd.
Ashish K Khatua is a professional with a career span of more than 23 years, having management experience in Metal & Mining industry specialized in Business Strategy, Supply chain management – Shipping & Logistics, Business restructuring & Integration assignments. He has gained diverse & global exposure having worked in core sectors across India & Europe, as hands on manager in shop floor as well as in leadership positions in later part of his career.
He joined JSW Group in 2022 and is currently designated as Associate Vice President – Group Shipping. His primary objective is to drive optimization & cost competitiveness across processes in shipping. In his current role, he is responsible for Dry bulk Chartering of all JSW group companies, managing a portfolio of 45+ Mn Tons per annum.
Prior to this assignment, he was associated with Tata Steel for almost 22 years, where he has contributed in Plant Operations, Group Procurement, Shipping, Strategic Finance, Business Integration and Mining acquisition activities. He was instrumental in multiple projects in Tata Steel group such as setting up of the shipping vertical in Tata Steel group, acquisition of Gandalpada green field Iron ore mine, Zero day disruption free business integration post the merger of erstwhile Bhushan Steel with Tata Steel etc.
Academia
- Prof. (Dr.) Rana Singh, Director, CIMP
- Prof. Jo-Hui ,Chen, Department of Finance, Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan
- Prof. (Dr.) Vipul Singh, Associate Professor, Finance, IIM Mumbai
- Prof. Vishal Singh Patyal, Associate Professor, IIM Visakhapatnam
- Dr. Gopal Krishna Sarangi, Associate Professor, TERI
- Prof. (Dr.) Tarun Soni, Associate Professor, Fore School of Management, New Delhi
- Prof. Jitendra Kumar, Senior Associate Professor, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore
- Dr. Chitra Gounder, Associate Professor, NL Dalmia Institute of Management and Research
- Prof. Barun Kumar Thakur, Associate Professor- Economics, Flame University
- Dr. Sanjeev Kumar, Associate Professor, Jindal Global Business School
- Dr. Nishant Kumar, Associate Professor, Department of Business Administration, Lucknow University, Lucknow
- Prof. (Dr.) Santosh Kumar, Assistant Professor- Finance, CIMP
- Prof. (Dr.) Ranjit Tiwari, Assistant Professor- Finance, CIMP
- Prof. Prasenjit Chakrabarti, Assistant Professor, IIM Ranchi
- Prof. Nishikant Kumar, Assistant Professor, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
- Prof. Tavishi Tewary, Assistant Professor, Fore School of Management, New Delhi
- Dr. Sridhar M Samant, Assistant Professor, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
Industry
- Mr. Kumar Ayaskanta, Group Chief Investment Officer, WIPRO
- Mr. Janardhana Anjanappa, Founder and CEO; TYHCE Investments
- Mr. Manish Jha, VP (Operations), Golcha Group
- All papers submitted for oral presentation at IFMC must contain original work that has not been previously presented or scheduled for presentation or accepted and if under review, must not appear in print before the conference.
- Font: Times New Roman, Size – 12, double spaced, 1 – inch (2.5 cm) margin all around.
- Figures, graphs, tables, references, and appendices should follow APA style.
- To facilitate the blind review process, remove all author identity including acknowledgments.
- Extended abstract of the paper should not be more than 500 words.
- The extended abstract should cover the following aspects;
- Purpose
- Methodology adopted
- Empirical or theoretical results
- Implications for theory and practice
- Keywords
Registration is mandatory on confirmation of abstract. Only registered participants will be allowed to take part in the conference. Presenters can participate in the conference in online or offline mode. Paper presenters (authors and co-authors) have to register themselves after the acceptance of the abstract with payment of the registration fees as applicable. There will be no change in paper as well as the name(s) of authors/ co-authors once a paper is accepted. Submission of the full paper is mandatory for consideration for the best paper award. We do not have any provisions for the payment of transport allowance or reimbursement of travel expenses.
- Academicians & Industry Professionals: INR 1,500
- Research Scholars, Post-Graduate Students & others: INR 1,000
- Participants (Non-Presenters): INR 500
- Overseas Paper Presenters/ Participants: USD 50
Registration Fee(Non-Refundable) may be paid online at the time of Registration at the conference portal.
Incase of Online Transaction Failure, Registration Fee can be deposited via NEFT/RTGS/IMPS transactions:
Bank A/c name : Chandragupt Institute of Management Patna
Bank A/c No. : 2920000108100915
Bank Name & Address : Punjab National Bank, Mithapur Branch, Patna
IFSC Code : PUNB0880500
Please share your NEFT/RTGS/IMPS transaction details to Conference Secretariat: ifmc@cimp.ac.in
The organizing committee welcomes submission in all areas of sustainable finance and responsible investment domain. The authors can submit extended abstract for the IFMC 2025. However, authors who are targeting best paper award and publication opportunity need to submit a full paper.
Abstract submission closes : 15th September, 2024
Notification of Acceptance : 30th September, 2024
Registration Opens : 31st October, 2024
Full Paper Submission Closes : 31st October, 2024
Outstation paper presenters will be provided accommodation on the payment basis.
Conference Secretariat :ifmc@cimp.ac.in
Kumari Khushboo: +91 9155142017
Chandragupt Institute of Management Patna, invites papers from academicians, professionals, policy makers having common interest in “Sustainable Finance and Responsible Investment” for the International Financial Management Conference (IFMC) 2025. The one-day conference hosted by Chandragupt Institute of Management Patna aims to provide an excellent platform for discussing emerging issues and future challenges on selected theme and allied areas of finance.
Submissions of papers can be made in following sub themes.
- Screening and integration: sustainability
- Shareholder Engagement
- Sustainability, equilibrium and efficient frontier
- Green taxonomy
- Active Ownership
- Value, voice and exit
- Appraisal of green and brown portfolios
- Pricing of carbon risk
- Disclosures, benchmarking and market discipline
- Climate resilient solutions
- Board ideology
- Institutional activism and future payoffs
- Impact investing
- ESH portfolio/green bonds
- Societal accruals
- Greenium
- Chief sustainability officers and alpha
- Gender diversity and firm performance
- Agricultural Finance
- Tourism Finance
- SME Financing and Challenges
- Microfinance
- Fundamental Indexation and sustainability
Chandragupt Institute of Management Patna (CIMP) has been established as an autonomous institution, with active support from the Government of Bihar in the year 2008. The Honourable CM Shri. Nitish Kumar happens to be the Chairman of the institute. It is approved by AICTE, Ministry of HRD, Government of India. The flagship programme of the institute of accredited by NBA and approved by AIU. CIMP is in Management (Rank Band: 101-125) as per NIRF-2023.
The Institute conducts the following major programmes:
- Fellow Programme in Management (FPM)
- Two-Year Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGDM)
- Two-Year Post Graduate Programme in Management (PGDM-IEV)
- Executive programme in management for Government officials (EXPM)
- Management Development programme (MDP)
Patron:
Prof. (Dr.) Rana Singh, Director, CIMP
Chairperson:
Prof. (Dr.) Santosh Kumar, CIMP
Convenor:
Prof. (Dr.) Ranjit Tiwari, CIMP
Secretary General:
Prof. (Dr.) Rajeev Ranjan, CIMP
Members:
- Prof. (Dr.) Sayan Banerjee
- Prof. (Dr.) Sriranga Vishnu, CIMP
- Prof. (Dr.) Ankit Sharma, CIMP
Prof. (Dr.) Prashant Gupta
Finance and Accounting, Indian Institute of Management, Nagpur
Dr Prashant Gupta is a Professor at Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Nagpur, has earlier served with Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Trichy. He has shouldered many administrative responsibilities such as Dean, School of Management, Dean Student Affairs, Chairman Admissions, Program Director/Chair of PG Programs etc at different institutions served earlier. His more than 25 years of experience is a blend of industry and academics. Prof. Prashant has conducted various training programs for more than 40 companies, including board level programs, for more than 5000 middle, senior and top-level executives of almost all big PSUs like ONGC, IOC, Oil India, HPCL, NTPC, GAIL, NLC, Coal India L&T, TVS Credit, etc. Dr Gupta has also organized international training programs and trained more than 1000 Foreign Government /Private Sector Executives of around 55 countries, sponsored by Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India. Many International and National research publications of repute are to his credit. He has presented many papers in refereed International and National conferences in India at various IIMs, IITs, ISB and abroad at more than 10 countries. Prof. Gupta is on the Advisory Board of three companies and Economic Council of India (ECI). He is also a trained faculty member by Ivy Business School, Canada and International Finance Corporation (World Bank Group Company), USA on Corporate Governance. He sits on various academic bodies of Universities and Institutes and has also served a board member at Accounting Standard Board (ASB) of India. Currently He is a member of Accounting Standard Board, ICAI for year 2018-19. He is a member of committee on ‘Sustainable Finance’ at Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) and also part of the ‘World Working Group’ of ISO for developing new standard on Sustainable Finance - ISO–TC322.ble.
2. Prof. (Dr.) Anju Singh
Sustainability, Indian Institute of Management, Mumbai
Prof. Anju Singh has completed Ph.D. from Centre for Environmental Science and Engineering (CESE) IIT Bombay in 1994. She worked as Scientist on several national and international projects in the area of Environmental Management at IIT Bombay. She joined as faculty in NIIM Mumbai (earlier NITIE) from 2003 and has been teaching business sustainability, energy management, sustainability standards and guidelines etc. She has published and presented over 200 research papers in journals and conferences. She has worked extensively in many national and international network research projects including of European Union on water, wastewater, carbon, climate change, biodiversity, LCA use, e-waste management etc. Interacted with industry on several consulting assignments related to sustainability, CSR etc. She is CII-ITC sustainability Award Assessor for several years. She was visiting faculty to Asian Institute of Technology AIT, Thailand in 2016. She received the Woman of Substance Award, Women Education Leader Award in July 2019 from World Education Congress, Best team CII-ITC Sustainability Awards in 2017 and several best paper awards. She is ex Assoc Dean Infra and planning, ex Chair Admissions, ex Professor In Charge International Relations, ex Chair Women’s cell.
Mr. Som Sekhar Mishra
International Shipping & Logistics FZE (A Tata Company)
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Mr. Govind Shanbogue
Santander Corporate and Investment Banking, UK
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Mr. Ashish K Khatua
JSW Steel Ltd.
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Academia
- Prof. (Dr.) Rana Singh, Director, CIMP
- Prof. (Dr.) Vipul Singh, Associate Professor, Finance, IIM Mumbai
- Prof. Jo-Hui ,Chen, Department of Finance, Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan
- Prof. Vishal Singh Patyal, Associate Professor, IIM Visakhapatnam
- Dr. Gopal Krishna Sarangi, Associate Professor, TERI
- Prof. (Dr.) Tarun Soni, Associate Professor, Fore School of Management, New Delhi
- Prof. Jitendra Kumar, Senior Associate Professor, Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore
- Dr. Chitra Gounder, Associate Professor, NL Dalmia Institute of Management and Research
- Prof. Barun Kumar Thakur, Associate Professor- Economics, Flame University
- Dr. Sanjeev Kumar, Associate Professor, Jindal Global Business School
- Dr. Nishant Kumar, Associate Professor, Department of Business Administration, Lucknow University, Lucknow
- Prof. (Dr.) Santosh Kumar, Assistant Professor- Finance, CIMP
- Prof. (Dr.) Ranjit Tiwari, Assistant Professor- Finance, CIMP
- Prof. Prasenjit Chakrabarti, Assistant Professor, IIM Ranchi
- Prof. Nishikant Kumar, Assistant Professor, Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
- Prof. Tavishi Tewary, Assistant Professor, Fore School of Management, New Delhi
- Dr. Sridhar M Samant, Assistant Professor, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai
Industry
- Mr. Kumar Ayaskanta, Group Chief Investment Officer, WIPRO
- Mr. Janardhana Anjanappa, Founder and CEO; TYHCE Investments
- Mr. Manish Jha, VP (Operations), Golcha Group
- All cases submitted for oral presentation at MCC must contain original work that has not been previously presented or scheduled for presentation. If accepted for publication, or if under review, it must not appear in print before the case competition.
- Font: Times New Roman, Size – 12, Double spaced, 1 – inch (2.5 cm) margin all around.
- Figures, graphs, tables, references, and appendices should follow APA style.
- To facilitate the blind review process, all author identity, including acknowledgments, should be removed. The title page containing the name (s) of the author (s) and affiliation (s) should be submitted separately.
Format for teaching case:
- Background
- Dilemma
- The Case
- Data Source
- Case Questions
- Purpose
- Research question
- The Case
- Data Source
- Methodology adopted
- Findings and contributions
There will be three best case awards; “MCC 2024 Best Paper Accolade”. Best paper selection will be done by a five-member review committee. Authors are required to submit a full case to be eligible for the Best-Case Award.
- 1st prize INR 30,000/-
- 2nd prize INR 20,000/-
- 3rd prize INR 10,000/-
There will be three best case awards; “MCC 2024 Best Paper Accolade”. Best paper selection will be done by a five-member review committee. Authors are required to submit a full case to be eligible for the Best-Case Award.
- 1st prize INR 30,000/-
- 2nd prize INR 20,000/-
- 3rd prize INR 10,000/-
MCC:
- Foreign Delegates: USD 150 + GST (18%)
- From SAARC Countries : USD 100 + GST (18%)
- Indian Delegates: INR 1500 + GST (18%)
The organizing committee welcomes submission of cases, both teaching and non-teaching, from all areas of business and management. The authors can submit extended abstract [500 words] for the MCC-2024. However, authors who are targeting best case award need to submit a full case.
Submission of Extended Abstract : 30th August, 2024
Decision on Acceptance of the Abstract : 15th September, 2024
Registration of Author/Delegates : 16th September, 2024
Submission of Full Case : 15th October, 2024
The organizing committee welcomes submission of cases, both teaching and non-teaching, from all areas of business and management. The authors can submit extended abstract [500 words] for the MCC-2024. However, authors who are targeting best case award need to submit a full case.
Submission of Extended Abstract : 30th August, 2024
Decision on Acceptance of the Abstract : 15th September, 2024
Registration of Author/Delegates : 16th September, 2024
Submission of Full Case : 15th October, 2024
Conference Secretariat :
- mcc@cimp.ac.in
Gaurav: +91-7488107779