Pramod Paliwal

Born in Udaipur, Paliwal holds a bachelor's degree in Economics from Rajasthan Vidyapeeth and is an MBA followed by a PhD in Management from Mohanlal Sukhadia University.[5]

He is married and has two children.[6]

Paliwal is a professor at the School of Petroleum Management, Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, Gandhinagar-Gujarat, India.[7] In profession since 1991, his earlier associations have been with ACC Limited (now, a subsidiary of LafargeHolcim), Pacific Institute of Management, Mohanlal Sukhadia University, India, and the India Offshore Campus of Oxford Brookes University, U.K.[4] He sits on the Academic Advisory Board of CHARGE Energy Branding Conference, Iceland.

Paliwal contributed to "International Gas Union 2009–2012 Triennium Work Report: Building Strategic Human Capital"[8] authored by Ieda Gomes,[9] United Kingdom. He also contributed to the study "Promoting Energy Savings in India's Transportation Sector" with Institute of Energy Economics Japan (IEEJ), Tokyo and METI (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry). (2014–15)[10]

Apart from publishing many research papers and book chapters in Management, Marketing and Energy Industry, he has authored books on B2B Marketing and Natural Gas Distribution.[11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18] These include McGraw-Hill International “Cases in Business Marketing’ (with co-authors Ramendra Singh and Sudhir Yadav), ‘Natural Gas Transmission and Distribution Business’ by Routledge (with co-author Sudhir Yadav) and its special Indian edition (with co-author Sudhir Yadav).[19][20][21]

He has been invited as a speaker at Natural Gas Distribution industry international forums, spanning across India, Europe, Middle East, North Africa, Southeast Asia and the United States.[22][23][24][25][26]