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Dr Arun Kumar
- Associate Professor
- Area: Management
Prof Arun Kumar is an IIM Indore alumnus with an envious career spanning over 30 years. He has worked with well-known and reputed Government-owned banks (including State Bank of Bikaner and Jaipur, Punjab and Sind Bank and UCO Bank) Dun & Bradstreet, Dubai (the best International Rating Agency and Risk Consultant). He was associated as a consultant (deputed to Lagos, Nigeria) with Dun & Bradstreet Dubai. He spearheaded the implementation of Basel-II/III, formulation of ICAAP and other credit and operational risk consultancy in Nigeria.
Prof Kumar has vast experience contributing to e-Governance, business consultancy and evaluation, Basel II & III, credit regulatory reporting, audit and inspection, risk management, budgeting/ forecasting, relationship management and banking operations. He is proficient in evaluating internal control systems procedures, preparing audit reports to highlight shortcomings, and implementing the necessary recommendations.
Academic qualifications
- PhD (Risk Management in NPA Management)
- EPGP-EG (Executive Post Graduate Programme in E-governance) IIM Indore
- MBA (Finance)
- CAIIB (Certified Associate of Indian Institute of Bankers)
Experience
- Industry - 30+ years
- Academics - 7+ years
Courses taught
- Banking Processes and Products I & II
- Commercial Banking
- Credit Management
- Advanced Credit Management
- Risk Management
- Basics of Management
- Business Organisations and Structure
- Indian Financial System
Research areas
- NPA Management
Consulting areas
- Banking and Risk Management
Selected Publications
- A. Sharma, G.Komma and A. Kumar, “Managing NPA’s in public sector banks in India and measures to eradicate the same,” International Journal of Research in Business Studies, vol. 1, pp. 87-113, 2016.
- V. R. Iyer and A. Kumar, “Risk management in the next decade,” Journal of Indian Institute of Banking & Finance, pp. 52-56, 2018.
- A. Kumar, S. Kalyani and. C. Medatwal, “Effectiveness of channels for recovery of NPAs in Indian banking sector,” Shodh Sarita, vol. 8, no. 29, pp. 145-150, 2021.
Conference papers
- A. Kumar and R. Kovid, “Banking vision-2025,” in 3rd International Conference on Advances in Management and Decision Science, 2017, pp. F1479.
- A. Kumar and S. Kalyani, “Importance of risk management architecture for addressing the NPA problems in banks in India,” in 3rd Annual Conference on Banking and Finance, 2019. pp. 51.
Books
- A. Kumar, A. Sharma and G. Komma, “Banking industry and non-performing assets (NPA),” India : New Century Publication, 2018.
Consultancy
- Worked as Consultant with M/s Dun & Bradstreet for Basel-II implementation in Nigeria from May to July 2014
Awards and recognitions
- ‘Banking Guru Appreciation’ award by Gyan Bharti Institute of Technology
Other interests
- Singing, dancing, conducting panel discussions at NU, and Management Development Programmes