Dr. Madhubrata Satpathy is presently working as Associate Professor of Economics and Head of the Postgraduate Department of Economics at B.J.B. Autonomous College. She pursued her post-graduation in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, and completed her M.Phil. and Ph.D. (specialization in Energy Economics) in Analytical and Applied Economics from Utkal University. She has 34 years of academic and research experience across various government colleges in Odisha. Dr. Satpathy has published two research books and contributed numerous research papers to national and international journals. She has also delivered lectures as a resource person at several national universities and international forums. Currently, she is supervising three Ph.D. research scholars and has guided nearly two hundred postgraduate and undergraduate students in their dissertations as part of the academic curriculum in Economics.