Sneha L. Thayyil

Assistant Professor

Educational Qualifications:

Ph.D. Economics (Pursuing from IIT Bombay, Mumbai)

M.A. (Economics) from University of Mumbai

B.A. (Economics with Honours programme) from St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai

Areas of Specialization:

Industrial economics, Corporate finance, Empirical development economics

Work experience:

Assistant Professor, SVKM’s NMIMS (Deemed to be University), V L Mehta Road, Vile Parle (West), Mumbai, Maharashtra (From 1^st July, 2014 till date)

Visiting Faculty, M.A. Economics – Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune (February – July 2022)
Ad-hoc lecturer, B.A. Economics - St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai (September – November 2013)
Research Assistant in a project on "Decision-making & Problem-solving under Uncertainty”, conducted by the University of Warwick, London School of Economics & Harvard University (March 2011 - April 2012)

Scholarships and Awards:

Award for Multi-Campus Coordination, Sarla Anil Modi School of Economics, NMIMS University Mumbai, 2023-2024
Best Faculty Award, Sarla Anil Modi School of Economics, NMIMS University Mumbai, 2020-2021
UGC-NET and Maharashtra-SET, December 2013
Kalpana Agarwal Gold Medal for securing the highest CGPA in the M.A. Economics credit-based course, University of Mumbai (2009-2011)

Publications:

Baruah, P., Thayyil, S.L. (2023). ‘To Be or Not to Be, That is the Question’: Analysing VIL’s Competitive Prospects in the Telecom Sector. In: Mishra, P., Sharma, A., Khanra, S., Kundu, S.K., Mishra, S.K. (eds) Digital Economy Post COVID-19 Era. INDAM 2023. Springer Proceedings in Business and Economics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-0197-5_7
Thayyil, S. L. (2018). Book Review: Sujit Kumar Chattopadhyay, Gender Inequality, Popular Culture and Resistance in Bankura District. South Asia Research, 38(3_suppl), 100S-102S. https://doi.org/10.1177/0262728018793299">

Popular writing:

DNA, Mumbai. "Read, Share, Be Happy: A restless soul’s search for good reading options in the city”. April 6, 2013.

Research in progress:

Ph.D. thesis (ongoing, under the guidance of Dr. Tara Shankar Shaw): Firm-level strategies impacting growth and productivity of the MSME sector in India

Workshops, Seminars and Conferences:

2025 RCEA International Conference on Economics, Econometrics, and Finance, organized by The Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis at New Jersey City University, USA from June 3-4, 2025
Faculty Development Programme (FDP) conducted on Generative AI at SAMSOE, NMIMS Mumbai on May 17, 2025
Meeting of Young Minds in Frontiers of Economics organized by Institute of New Economic Thinking (INET) and IIT Bombay from February 17-19, 2025
Conference presentations by students under my mentorship: Annual Research Colloquium organized by SAMSOE, NMIMS Mumbai on March 29, 2025 (Sambhav Agarwal, TY B.Sc. Economics – Best Paper Award; Drishti Desai, TY B.Sc. Economics; Anupama Manjunath, SY M.Sc. Economics)
Poster presentations by students under my mentorship: REL Symposium organized by NMIMS University on January 13, 2025 (Jagriti Jain, SY M.Sc. Economics; Rasheed Amina Karim Firdous, SY M.Sc. Economics – Top 25 Award; Diya Sinha, TY B.Sc. Economics; Rishabh & Swayham, SY B.Sc. Economics; Abhimit, Anvita, Eesha, Manya, Pulkita, Vansh, SY B.Sc. Economics)

DSE Winter School organized by the Delhi School of Economics from December 12-14, 2024
India Management Research Conference (IMRC) 2024 organized by the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad from December 7–9, 2024
26th Annual Strategic Management Forum (SMF 2024) hosted by the Indian Institute of Management, Mumbai from December 5–7, 2024
SUSCON XI organized by IIM Shillong from November 21-23, 2024
INDAM Special 2024 @ NMIMS Mumbai (EduSustain 2024) from September 27–28, 2024
Faculty Development Programme (FDP) conducted on Multicampus Program Coordination process at SAMSOE, NMIMS Mumbai on July 6, 2024 with Prof. Amita Vaidya, Director, SAMSOE, and three faculty members from SAMSOE, NMIMS Mumbai
Conference presentations by students under my mentorship: SUSCON XI organized by IIM Shillong from November 21-23, 2024 (Anupama Manjunath, SY M.Sc. Economics)
Poster presentations by students under my mentorship: REL Symposium organized by NMIMS University on March 16, 2024 (Jayni Patel, TY B.Sc. Economics; Nikita Sengupta, TY B.Sc. Economics – Top 20 Award; Adit Seth, TY B.Sc. Economics – Top 20 Award; Keya Mehta, TY B.Sc. Economics – Top 20 Award; Garima, Rachit, Sarthak, Sharayu, Manav, Kartik, Saloni, SY B.Sc. Economics)

25th Annual Strategic Management Forum (SMF 2023) hosted by the Indian Institute of Management, Tiruchirapalli from December 18–20, 2023
35th Asian Finance Association (AsianFA) 2023 Annual Conference hosted by the University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City (UEH), from 26-27 June 2023
Research Symposium on Finance and Economics (RSFE) organized by IFMR GSB (Graduate School of Business), Krea University, Andhra Pradesh, from 14-16 June 2023
13th Financial Markets and Corporate Governance Conference - 2023 held virtually by the Deakin Business School in partnership with La Trobe University, Macquarie University, RMIT University, UNISA and Victoria University of Wellington, from April 12-14, 2023
4th SEBI-NISM Research Conference- 2023 on "Indian Securities Markets- The Next Agenda”, organized by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) and National Institute of Securities Markets (NISM), from March 02-03, 2023
8th Indian Academy of Management (INDAM) conference hosted by the School of Business Management (SBM), NMIMS Mumbai, from January 6–8, 2023

24th Annual Strategic Management Forum-2022 (SMF 2022) hosted by the Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA) Gujarat, from December 20–23, 2022

Reviewer Services:

SN Business & Economics

Certifications & Refresher courses:

Microeconomics: The Power of Markets, an online non-credit course authorized by University of Pennsylvania and offered through Coursera, Sep 11 2023
The Art and Science of Economic Policy, an online non-credit course authorized by Indian Institute for Human Settlements and offered through Coursera, Sep 10, 2023
Refresher Course on Teacher and Teaching in Higher Education, Swayam ARPIT course, 2021
An Introduction to Microeconomics, Swayam NPTEL course, 2021
Introduction to Environmental Economics, Swayam NPTEL course, 2021
LaTeX Bootcamp, Learners’ Space, IIT Bombay 2020
Feature Writing, TeleXIC – online learning branch, Xavier’s Institute of Communication, Mumbai, 2013
Math for Economics, Commerce and Management, IIT-Bombay, April 2007
C#, NIIT Mumbai, 2007

Official Email ID

Sneha.Thayyil@nmims.edu

Office Phone No.

91-022-42355725