Vrajlal Sapovadia

Vrajlal Sapovadia is a professor of Finance and Accounting at the Indian Institute of Management Indore.

He possesses a Ph.D. in Management Accounting, Masters in Law (Commercial and Property Law), a Masters in Business Administration and a diploma in Information System Audit. He is also a fellow member of Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. He started his academic career as a part time lecturer in a Law College in Ahmedabad. Then he moved on to joining MBA Centre (National Institute of Cooperative Management, Gandhinagar) of Gujarat University at Gandhinagar in 1999. In 2005 he moved to B.K. School of Business Management, Ahmedabad and after that moved to Indore. Additionally, he worked as consultant to World Bank Institute in its Public Finance course, is a guide to Micro Finance Community of Development Gateway, USA, is an Observer Member of ALNAP, UK, is a member of ICAI, and has been a visiting faculty member in several state institutes.

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Publication
Sapovadia's articles appeared in Harvard International Review, as study material in World Bank Institute Program, SSRN etc. Prof. Sapovadia is among the top 2% author on SSRN His area of social science research broadly covers: Corporate Governance, Accounting, Finance (Public & Micro Finance), Public Health, Cooperatives, Women Empowerment, Decentralization, Information System, Poverty, Corporate Law & Taxation, Land Policy, Urbanization and Education. He is known for his work is 'economies of cooperation', determining the optimum level of cooperative organization membership. Collective efforts of members of cooperative create a benefit as a whole, but beyond some limit, to unite members becomes burdensome. Many of his publications are available on SSRN. . His 8 papers were among the top downloaded paper on SSRN this year.

Recognition
Prof Sapovadia was winner for 3rd (Thailand - 2004), 4th (Srilanka -2006) and 5th (Vietnam) Research Conference award by International Cooperative Alliance . He was awarded IIFET in 2004, held in Tokyo University, Japan. His paper on Urban Management was presented in 4th Urban Research Symposium at World Bank, Washington DC in May 2007 Prof. Sapovadia earned fellowship at Canada Congress 2007 and 1st CIRIEC - both held in Canada on social economy. His paper on CSR by Cooperatives was selected for presentation by ICA Research Conference 2008 Europe. The conference was held in Italy. Dr. Sapovadia will present paper on cooperative governannce in ICA regional research conference. []

Biography

Dr. Sapovadia was born in 1956 in Nanadiya. He was sent to government school at age of 5, his study till 9th standard undergone in the village Nanadiya. He was sent to Rajkot in 1970 for further study at Swaminarayan Gurukul, Rajkot. After matriculation, he was sent to Gujarat College, Ahmedabad in 1972. After Pre Science, he joined LMCP, a pharmacy college in Ahmedabad. In his second round of study, which began in 1990, he completed his LL.B., LL.M. (Commercial Law), MBA (Finance), C.A., LL. M. (Property Law), Ph.D. and Diploma in Information System Audit from ICAI.

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