Dr. VARUN MAHAJAN Email: mahajan.varun85@gmail.com Educational Qualifications Year Board/Institution Marks % Ph.D (Full-Time) in Economics 2010-2016 Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee - UGC-NET with JRF June 2009 - - M.Sc (Hons.) in Economics 2009 Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar 73.33 B.Sc (Hons.) in Economics 2006 Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar 64.08 Intermediate (Commerce) 2003 Kendriya Vidyalaya (C.B.S.E.) 76.60 High School 2001 Kendriya Vidyalaya (C.B.S.E.) 65.00 TEACHING / RESEARCH EXPERIENCE: (More than 6 Years) Currently working as Assistant Professor at Eternal University, Himachal Pradesh. Assistant Professor (August 20, 2015 to July, 2016) Glocal School of Business and Commerce, Glocal University, Saharanpur. Teaching Assistant, Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, IIT Roorkee (July 2010 to July 2015). Full-time 5 years of research experience in the field of data envelopment analysis, efficiency and productivity and Indian pharmaceutical industry from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences of IIT Roorkee. Worked in Ganga River Basin Management Project.
RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS PAPERS IN JOURNALS 1. Varun Mahajan, D.K.Nauriyal and S.P.Singh (2014) Technical Efficiency of Indian Drug and Pharmaceutical Industry: A Non-parametric approach, Benchmarking: An International Journal, Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., Vol. 21(5), pp.734-755 (Indexed in Scopus). 2. Varun Mahajan, D.K.Nauriyal and S.P.Singh (2015) Trade performance and Revealed Comparative Advantage of Indian Pharmaceutical Industry in the New IPR Regime International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Marketing, Emerald Group Publishing Ltd., Vol.9 (1), pp.56-73 (Indexed in Scopus). 3. Shilpi Tyagi, Varun Mahajan, D.K.Nauriyal (2014) Innovations in Indian Drug and Pharmaceutical Industry: Have They Impacted Exports?, Journal of Intellectual Property Rights, Vol.19, pp.243-252. (Indexed in Scopus) 4. Varun Mahajan, D.K.Nauriyal and S.P.Singh (2015) Efficiency Trends in the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry in the New Patent Regime, International Journal of Business Performance Management, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, Vol.16 (4), pp.389-406. (Indexed in Scopus) 5. Varun Mahajan, D.K.Nauriyal and S.P.Singh (2014) Efficiency and Ranking of Indian Pharmaceutical Industry: Does Type of Ownership Matter?, Eurasian Journal of Business and Economics, Vol.7 (14), pp.29-50. 6. Varun Mahajan, D.K.Nauriyal and S.P.Singh (2017) Efficiency and its Determinants: Panel Data Evidence from the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry, Margin: Journal of Applied Economic Research, Sage Publication (Accepted). 7. Varun Mahajan, D.K.Nauriyal and S.P.Singh (2017) Domestic Market Competitiveness of Indian Pharmaceutical Industry, Review of Managerial Science, Springer, Indexed in SSCI, (Revision). RESEARCH PAPERS IN PROGRESS 1. Varun Mahajan, D.K.Nauriyal and S.P.Singh (2017) Product Patent Regime and Total Factor Productivity Growth in Indian Pharmaceutical Industry: Ray and Desli Malmquist Productivity Index.
PROCEEDINGS 1. Mahajan, V., Nauriyal, D.K., and Singh, S.P., (2014) R&D and performance analysis of Indian pharmaceutical industry, International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving (Conference Proceeding Springer) (ISBN 978-81-322-1767-1). 2. Mahajan, V., Nauriyal, D.K., and Singh, S.P., (2014) Total Factor Productivity Growth of Indian Drug and Pharmaceutical Industry, Conference Proceedings of 12 th International Conference on Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA 2014), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) (ISBN: 978 1 85449 487 0). PAPERS PRESENTED IN CONFERENCES International Conference in Abroad Mahajan, V., Nauriyal, D.K., and Singh, S.P., Total Factor Productivity Growth of Indian Drug and Pharmaceutical Industry, presented at 12 th International Conference on Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA 2014), Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia) from 14-17 April, 2014. International Conference in India Mahajan, V., Nauriyal, D.K., and Singh, S.P., (2014) R&D and performance analysis of Indian pharmaceutical industry presented in 3 rd International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving from 26 th to 28 th December organized by Saharanpur campus of IIT Roorkee. Mahajan, V., Nauriyal, D.K., and Singh, S.P., (2013) Efficiency and Slack analysis of Large Indian drug and pharmaceutical firms, Presented in International Conference on Trade, Markets and Sustainability (ICTMS-2013) held in Feb. 22-23, 2013 at Symbiosis Institute of International Business. Mahajan, V., Nauriyal, D.K., and Singh, S.P., (2013) Revealed comparative advantage and efficiency analysis of Indian drug and pharmaceutical industry in the post modified Indian patent act era, Presented in International Conference on Excellence in Research and Education (CERE-2013) held during 9 th -12 th May, 2013 at Indian Institute of Management Indore.
Mahajan, V., Nauriyal, D.K., and Singh, S.P., (2013) Evolution and emergence of Indian pharmaceutical industry: innovation, trade and performance perspectives presented in Conference on Emerging Issues in Commerce and Management held in 28 November, 2013 at Department of commerce Central University of Rajasthan. National Conference in India Mahajan, V., Nauriyal, D.K., and Singh, S.P., (2014) Public Healthcare infrastructure in Uttarakhand, presented in National Conference on Revisiting Development Paradigms for Uttarakhand from 15-16 Feb., 2014 organised by Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. Mahajan, V., (2012), Sustainable development through organic farming in India, Presented in 16 th Annual Conference of Indian Political Economy Association held during 26-27 Oct., 2012 at Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee. WORKSHOP ATTENDED Workshop on 2 nd JNU National Interaction Programme for Ph.D Scholars in Social Sciences & Humanities organized by UGC- Academic Staff College JNU, New Delhi during 22 nd July to 8 th August, 2013. Workshop on Time Series Econometrics and its Application organized by the Department of Economics, University of Burdwan held during 4-9 April, 2011. RESEARCH AREA AND AREA OF INTEREST Research Area Ph.D. Research Topic: Trade Performance, Efficiency and Productivity of Indian Drug and Pharmaceutical Industry under the supervision of Prof. D.K.Nauriyal and Prof. S.P.Singh. Data Envelopment Analysis, Efficiency and Productivity, Indian Pharmaceutical Industry Area of Interest Applied Micro Economics, Industrial Economics, Data Envelopment Analysis, Statistics.
SKILLS AND ACHIEVEMENTS Software Packages Academic Achievements SPSS, DEAP, E-Views, STATA Received UGC Junior Research Fellowship (JRF) for Ph.D. Qualified UGC- NET JRF in Economics (June 2009) Reviewers of International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management (Emerald), Benchmarking: An International Journal (Emerald), International Journal of Production Research (Taylor & Fancis), International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Marketing (Emerald) Administrative Achievements Research Committee Member of IIT Roorkee. Member of Examination Committee of Glocal University. Part of Organizing Committee of 16 th Annual Conference of Indian Political Economy Association held during 26-27 Oct., 2012 at IIT Roorkee. Membership Extra Activities Indian Economic Association NCC C Certificate National Awards in sports like cricket, badminton. Languages Known English (SRW), Hindi (SRW), Punjabi (SRW) PERSONAL DETAILS Father s Name: Anil Kumar Mahajan Date of Birth: December 09, 1985 Gender: Male Contact No: +917500219147 Permanent Address: 123, Street No: 19, New Pawan Nagar, Amritsar-143001
REFERENCES Dr. D.K. Nauriyal Vice-Chancellor Kumaun University, Nainital Professor (on Leave), IIT Roorkee dk_nauriyal@yahoo.com +919897179179 Dr. S.P. Singh Prof, Head of the Department Department of Humanities and Social Sciences Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee singh2006_hss@yahoo.co.in +919837714002 Dr. Sharanjit Singh Dhillon Professor, Registrar (GNDU, Amritsar) Department of Punjab School of Economics, Guru Nanak Dev University dhillon_sharanjit@yahoo.co.in +919872207486 I hereby state that all the facts stated above are true to best of my knowledge and conscience. Dr.Varun Mahajan