Soils of Tripura: An Overview

Dipankar Dey holds a PhD and a masters degree in Business Management from the University of Calcutta. He is currently working as Faculty Member at Icfai Business School, Kolkata. Prior to joining Icfai, he worked with corporate sector for over twelve years in senior positions including national marketing manager and for a brief period he was associated with a leading international NGO. Currently, he is also attached to the Department of Business Management, University of Calcutta as a guest faculty in the area of international marketing. Dey conducts Management Development Programs on trade policy and social sector management regularly. He has participated as delegate and resource person in different national and international seminars including the 'Conference of Parties-8' of UNFCCC and 'International Seminar on Environmental Regulations and Market Access' organized by OECD and UNCTAD. He was a member of the Advisory Group (Energy) formed by Stakeholder Forum (UK) during the Johannesburg Earth Summit 2002. He authored the country report 'Energy and Sustainable Development in India', on behalf of Helio International, France, which was submitted in the 14th Session of UNCSD, 2006 at New York, where he participated as a delegate. There are a few publications (including a book and a monograph) to his credit. His research articles and commentaries have been published among others in the Economic and Political Weekly, The Hindu Business Line and The Statesman. His areas of teaching and research interest are international finance and trade, international marketing, marketing research and energy policy. Dey is also the consulting editor of the Icfai Journal of Environmental Economics, a quarterly journal of the Icfai University Press.