Mr. Pradeep Kumar Panda is an Economist. He is awarded with Best Young Researcher Award 2016 for outstanding contribution to research and publication in the field of Economics by GRABS Educational Charitable Trust, Chennai. He has published fifteen books viz. Indian Economic Service (IES) (2019) , Maritime History of Odisha (2018) , Dictionary of Economics (2017) , Women Empowerment (2017) , Micro Economics (2017) , Macro Economics (2017) , Odisha: The Soul of India (2016) , History of Economic Thought (2016) , Micro Economics I (2015) , Micro Economics II (2015) , International Trade (2014) , On the Predictability of Mutual Funds Return (2012) , Sri Krishna Speaks (2012) , Sri Sathya Sai Speaks (2012) , and Sach is Life (2012) . Over 30 research papers in the areas of Gender Equality, Macro-Monetary Economics, Financial Economics and International Economics are published in various national and international journals. He is columnist in Orissa POST Newspaper and published over 50 articles in the areas of Gender Equality, Economy, Finance and Entrepreneurship Development. He is resource person of several national and international journals. For more details visit www.pradeepkumarpanda.weebly.com