Dr. Meghna Verma has completed her Ph.D. in Airport Retail, focusing on retail product purchase behavior of domestic passengers, from the Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Science (IISc.) Bengaluru. Before that, she did her MBA in Marketing and HR, and an M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics.She has been a faculty member of marketing and analytics at RIM since 2009. She has over 22 years of industry, teaching, and research experience. She has worked with reputed industrial firms like Anchor Electronics & Electricals Ltd., Nilkamal Plastics Ltd., Time Packaging Ltd., and Unichem Pharma (Foreva Division).
Dr. Meghna Verma is actively involved in research projects. She was a co-investigator in Indo–Dutch Research Project, ‘The Kumbh Mela Experiment (KME)’ funded jointly by the Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), Govt. of India, and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). She is also the recipient of a research grant of nearly Rs.11 lakhs for the project titled “Institutionalizing Gender SMART and Gender Astute Mobility”, funded by Directorate of Urban Land Transport (DULT), Govt. of Karnataka, India. Dr. Verma contributed in-kind to the DULT Award-winning project, Clean Air Street testbed – Church Street First, and co-authored three chapters in the report titled, “Church Street First-Impact Assessment of Pedestrianizing an Urban Street in Terms of Quality of Life
She has presented her research work on KME in Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Denmark; Amsterdam Business School, Netherlands; Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany, and also at a special session of KME at the 6th Conference of Transportation Research Group of India (CTRG-2021) hosted by NIT Trichy. Dr. Meghna Verma has also delivered invited talks on applications of Quantitative and Qualitative Research techniques at IIM Indore, Amrita Business School, Coimbatore; National Institute of Advance Studies (NIAS), Bangalore to name a few.
Dr. Verma has published many research papers in journals listed in ABDC and SJR rankings, and presented research papers at conferences held in IIT Bombay, IIM Indore, Brazil, and Sri Lanka, to mention a few.”
She has delivered invited webinars in various institutes on ‘Demarketing’ advocating sustainability and local brands suggesting strategies to transform them into global brands.
Dr. Meghna Verma has completed her Ph.D. in Airport Retail, focusing on retail product purchase behavior of domestic passengers, from the Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Science (IISc.) Bengaluru. Before that, she did her MBA in Marketing and HR and M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics. She has been a faculty of marketing and analytics at RIM since 2009. She has over 22 years of industry, teaching, and research experience. She has worked with reputed industrial firms like Anchor Electronics & Electricals Ltd., Nilkamal Plastics Ltd., Time Packaging Ltd., and Unichem Pharma (Foreva Division).
Dr. Verma was the resource person for the capacity-building workshop for DULT, GOK officials on ‘Marketing of Sustainable Transport – A Case Study of Cycle Day Bangalore,’ a data analytics workshop (organised by IISc.), and workshops on conducting Focus Group Discussions (FGD) for their Sustainable Mobility Accord (SuMA) project
She was also one of the resource persons for a GIAN course on travel behavior, organized by IISc.
During her tenure at RIM, she was the conference coordinator for the 2010 and 2012 RIM conferences, faculty in charge of Alumni Matters for three years, mentored students of the Marketing Club for three years, organized a self-defense workshop for female students of RIM, and has been an active member of multiple functional committees.