Ankita Tripathi is an accomplished academician and researcher with over eight years of experience in teaching and research in the field of accounting and finance. She holds a Ph.D. in Accounting and Finance and has a strong foundation with an M. Com in the same field. She has taught a wide range of accounting and finance subjects to undergraduate and postgraduate students, including courses integrated with professional programs such as CA, ACCA, and CIMA. Alongside teaching, she has actively contributed to student engagement and institutional initiatives through various academic coordination roles.

She also worked as a Research Associate at Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani on an ICSSR-sponsored project. Her research interests include financial inclusion, MSME efficiency, working capital management, sustainable finance, and fintech. She has published extensively in Scopus- and ABDC-listed journals, contributed book chapters with international publishers such as Springer and Taylor & Francis, and presented her work at renowned national and international conferences, including at IIM Jammu and the University of Cambridge, UK.

With practical industry exposure through Chartered Accountancy training, she aims to bridge the gap between theory and practice and inspire future finance professionals through quality teaching and impactful research.

Professional Education

• Ph.D. (Finance) - 2024
• UGC-NET (Commerce) - 2023
• Master of Commerce (M.Com, Accounting & Finance) - 2018
• CA-Intermediate - 2017
• Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com) - 2016

Courses Taught

Accounting, Financial Reporting, Direct Tax, Microeconomics

Research Interests

Financial Inclusion, MSMEs, Working Capital Efficiency, Sustainable Finance, Economic Wellbeing, Fintech

Selected Publications

• Decoding the Financial Efficiency Drivers for Indian Green MSMEs: A DEA-SEM Approach. with Deepak kumar Tripathi & Saurabh Chadha, International Journal of Business and Economics, College of Business, Feng Chia University, Taiwan, 2024,23(3) (ABDC–B)
  
• A Curious Case of Financial Well-being of Indian Working Women: An Empirical Study. with Vatsal Tripathi, Empirical Economics Letters, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh,2023,(ABDC – C)
  
• Metaheuristic enabled intelligent model for stock market prediction via integrating volatility spillover: India and its Asian and European counterparts, with Deepak kumar Tripathi & Saurabh Chadha, Data & Knowledge Engineering, Elsevier,2023, (SCOPUS, SCI, ABDC – A).
  
• Uncovering the hidden roots: the tapestry of working capital efficiency in Indian MSMEs, with Deepak kumar Tripathi & Saurabh Chadha, Journal of Global Operations and Strategic Sourcing, 2024, Vol. 17 No. 1, pp. 53-73, (SCOPUS, ABDC – C).
  
• What Determines the Efficiency of Working Capital Among Rajasthan MSMEs?, with Deepak kumar Tripathi & Saurabh Chadha, Indian Journal of Finance, 2023, 17(6) (SCOPUS, ABDC-C) .
  
• Modelling Working Capital Efficiency: Integrating SBM-DEA and Artificial Neural Networks in Indian Manufacturing, with Himanshu Seth, Deepak Kumar Tripathi & Saurabh Chadha. Journal of Modelling in Management, Vol. 20 No. 3, pp. 846- 871 SCOPUS, ESCI, ABDC – C).
  

Book Chapters:

• Nexus Between Credit Conditions, Financial Literacy, and Loan Accessibility Among Indian MSMEs. In: Alareeni, B., Hamdan, A. (eds) Navigating the Technological Tide: The Evolution and Challenges of Business Model Innovation. With Deepak Kumar Tripathi & Saurabh Chadha Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 1082. Springer, Cham.,2024, (SCOPUS)
  
• Financial Inclusion and Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana: Evidence from Durg District. In Handbook of Evidence Based Management Practices in Business, with Ravish Kumar Soni & Rajkumar, Taylor & Francis,2023. (SCOPUS)