Dr. Siddhartha Sankar Saha has been associated with Department of Commerce, Morning (Accounting and Finance), St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata, West Bengal since 1998. He did his Post Graduation in commerce from University of Calcutta in 1994 and was qualified NET under UGC in 1996. Dr. Saha earned his Ph. D in finance, on thesis titled “Role of Merchant Bankers in Corporate Financing (Capital Issue Management) In India” from the University of Calcutta in 2006. With more than two decades of teaching experience, Dr. Saha has taught at undergraduate as well as postgraduate level. He is also associated with Department of Commerce (MBA-Finance), University of Calcutta as well as Professional Institutes including Business

Schools during several academic assignments. Dr. Saha has been supervising research scholars under the Department of Commerce, University of Calcutta. He has currently completed a Major Research Project funded by the UGC titled “Ethical role of statutory auditor on corporate scam in safeguarding stakeholders’ interest in India and abroad: A comparative study since 1990" which is first Major Research Project in Department of Commerce, Morning (Accounting and Finance), St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Kolkata. Dr. Saha has become a prolific author and he has to his credit more than 60 published research papers, covering accounting and finance issues, in leading national and international journals, conference proceedings and edited books like The Chartered Accountant, The Chartered Secretary, The Accounting World- ICFAI, The Management Accountant, Research Bulletin– ICWAI, IPE, Indian Journal of Accounting, Journal of Accounting and Finance , Indian Journal of Research, Research Journal of Finance and Accounting, USA, etc. He has also attended several National as well as International conferences/seminars as resource person and presented papers with best paper awards in fields of accounting and finance across the country. Recently, Dr. Saha had visited Taiwan, Republic of China to chair a session of international conference organized by Asian Pacific Conference of International Accounting Issues, California State University, USA. He also attended the said conference in presenting his research paper. This international visit has been made under UGC Travel Grant Scheme and

Research Grants approved by the St. Xavier’s College (Autonomous), Calcutta.

Dr. Saha has recently authored four books on finance titled (a) “Indian Financial System and Markets” published by Mcgraw-Hill Education Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi; (b) “Merchant Banking and Financial Services” published by Scholar’s Press, Germany; and (c) “Statutory Auditors’ Ethical Role” published by Scholar’s Press, Germany; and (d) “Statutory Auditors’ Objectivity in Corporate Accounting Scandals” published by Lambert Academic Publishing, Germany. His area of research interest includes corporate finance and emerging issues in primary capital market and stock market, corporate social responsibility, corporate scams, corporate governance,

emerging issues in accounting, auditing & finance, etc.