I am a Professor in the Department of Business Administration at Tezpur University, Assam, with over 28 years of experience in teaching, research, and academic leadership. My work focuses on entrepreneurship development, rural livelihoods, tourism economics, managerial decision-making, and sustainable development, with a strong empirical emphasis on Northeast India with a list of publication including 40+ peer-reviewed research papers, along with books, book chapters, and conference contributions in SCOPUS and UGC-CARE indexed outlets. My research spans tourism service quality, agripreneurship, flood governance, poverty measurement, rural market systems, microfinance, and gendered labour patterns. I have supervised 13 PhD scholars and led major projects funded by ICSSR, UGC-SAP, NABARD, Government of Assam, and international partners under the U.S.–India Partnership 2020 initiative. I am actively engaged in teaching, policy discussions, community development, and academic training across institutions.