Dr. Kirti Arekar is currently working with National Institute of Securities Markets as a Professor. She has been in teaching, research, training and consulting in Data and Statistical Analysis since 2000. Dr. Kirti worked with K.J. Somaiya Institute of Management, Welingkar Institute of Management (WeSchool) and Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Mumbai. She has been visiting faculty with SP Jain Global Institute of Management, Singapore and Manipal University, Dubai. She has conducted several training programs for corporates like BSE, NSE, BCCI, INS HAMLA, Lumiere, Mahindra & Mahindra and L&T etc. based on Decision Making, Statistics and Data Analysis etc.  by using several Software’s i.e. SPSS, EXCEL, EXCEL Solver, MegaStat, Minitab, SAS, R, Python, SAS and QM3+ etc. She has 275 Research publications in International and National Journals. She has presented several Research Papers in many Universities like Harvard University, Manchester, University of Emirates, University of Wellington and Hull University etc.

She has done PhD. in Statistics in 2002 and Integrated Program in Business Analytics from IIM Indore. She has received an award for Best Research paper at Inter 3RD International conference on global independence and decision science, Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad, 2008; Best paper awarded by Global Economy and Finance Journal, Canada, 2013 & University of Boston, USA in 2012. Under her guidance two students was awarded Ph.D. degree.

Dr Kirti Arekar has been featured as the ‘Notable Women Personalities of India 2024’ on www.businesstalkz.com.

She was awarded as the Best Teacher Award for Excellence in Research & Teaching from Higher Education Forum in 2013; has been also awarded Fellowship from World Business Institute, Melbourne, Australia in 2013 and Best Researcher Award in Higher Education from K.J. Somaiya Institute of Management, Mumbai and Best Faculty Award in Teaching in Excellence from Bombay Management Association, BMA in 2019.

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