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Durga Prasad Samontaray

Associate Professor

Associate Professor, Department of Finance

Business Administration
College of Business Administration, Building 67, Second Floor, Office No. S36
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Highlights of my Achievements:
• Associate Professor – Finance (Since June 2011) in the College of Business Administration (CBA*), King Saud University (KSU**), Assistant Professor from Oct.2009 to June 2011.
• Rich academic, research, and industry experience of more than 27 years (19 years post-Ph.D. Experience).
• Outstanding excellence award in effective teaching in 2024 and 2015 (CBA*, KSU**).
• Outstanding excellence award in research in the academic year 2024 (CBA*, KSU**).
• Outstanding excellence award in international accreditation (AACSB) in the academic year 2024 and 2016 (CBA*, KSU**).
• 32 research publications (15 in Web of Science/Scopus Indexed/ABDC-listed Journals, 1 Ivey Case, 1 Textbook, 1 Patent).
• Member of the Editorial Review Board of 11 international Referred journals (Taylor & Francis, Inderscience Publishers, Elsevier, Sage, and Emerald Publishing).
• Foreign Ph.D. examiner of well-respected universities and chair/keynote speaker of ostensible conferences/seminars/workshops.
• Doctoral degree (awarded in 2006) from the Faculty of Commerce, University of Allahabad (A Central University, India).
• FDPM from Indian Institute of Management - Ahmadabad (2002-03).
• MBA (Finance)from Berhampur University (1996-98).
• I have taught various courses related to Financial Modelling, Investment Analysis, Asset valuation, Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance, and Case studies at the Ph.D., Master’s, and Undergraduate levels.
• Coordinated AACSB accreditation in 2016 and AACSB Maintenance visit in 2022.
• Chairman of the Assurance of Learning (AOL) Committee for AACSB accreditation of CBA* (2012-2016, 2017 – 2022, 2022 – Continuing).
• Head of the Quality & Accreditation Committee of the Department of Finance, CBA* (Since 2014).
• Member of Several CBA*, KSU**, and Department of Finance committees.
• I am blending information technology into the finance curriculum (e.g., by unifying Pearson My Finance Lab, McGraw Hill Connect, and LMS or Blackboard and Edugate).
• I use case studies from HBSP (Harvard Business School Publishing), ECCH (European Case Clearing House), and Ivey Publishing. I’ve been an Instructor member of HBSP, Ivey, and ECCH.
• Each course deals with the application of Excel Spreadsheets and financial calculators.
• My current research interests are ESG, SDGs, Corporate Governance, Corporate Finance, Banking, Financial Markets, and related fields.
• CBA is accredited by AACSB (since 2016) and the National Accreditation Body (NCAAA), a prominent business school in Saudi Arabia and GCC.
Language
English
Level
Excellent