Dr. Sagar Malsane holds a PhD in the area of Building Information Modelling (BIM) (Northumbria University, UK), and a Post Graduate Degree in Construction Management (Loughborough University, UK). Sagar received a Ph.D. Studentship Funding from Northumbria University. Further, his research focuses on areas like Critical factors for the uptake of BIM, Usability analysis of BIM 4D, Identification of Critical Challenges for Drone Adoption, etc. Sagar recently conceptualized the Centre for Digital Construction at NICMAR University, Pune.

Dr. Rajni Kant Rajhans is an associate professor at NICMAR Business School. He teaches Financial Management, Project Appraisal, Project Finance, Risk Management, and Valuation related courses. He was awarded Teaching Excellence Award at NICMAR in 2019. Dr. Rajhans’s research interests are in Corporate Finance, Valuation, and Green Finance. He is on the editorial advisory board of the Emerging Market Case Studies, Emerald Publication.

She is an urban planning professional with a B.Arch from VNIT, Nagpur an M.Plan in Urban and Regional Planning from CEPT, Ahmedabad and a PhD from Pune University (COEP). She has been actively involved in academia, research, and consultancy since 2012. Her expertise lies in the landuse-transport-real estate continuum, infrastructure development, urban governance and GIS application for the same. Her ultimate goal is to enhance the Quality of Life in Indian cities through impactful initiatives.

Prof Ramakrishna Nallathiga holds undergraduate, post-graduate and research master’s degrees in Civil Engineering, Planning and Land Economy (UK).  He has fourteen years’ work experience in the areas of urban/ environmental planning, policy, governance reforms and management.  He teaches the courses that broadly fall in real estate, urban infrastructure, applied economics and planning. His current research interests are in urban infrastructure service delivery, urban finance/ governance, real estate/property markets and valuation.

Dr. Rahul Deshpande graduated with Bachelors in Civil Engineering from Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT Nagpur) and earned his Masters and Ph.D. degree in Transportation Engineering from University of Massachusetts, Lowell USA. His areas of research interest are traffic engineering, transportation planning, urban mobility, project management and sustainable infrastructure development.