Prof. Manoj Kamat is an academic Scholar, an alumnus of IIT and the IIMs, a literary author, orator and popular columnist and has established himself as a result-oriented administrator. Before joining Dempo College, Prof. Kamat served as the Principal of Mallikarjun College at Canacona for four and half years, and has won appreciation for transforming the academic environment of the College and beyond, leading the College to a NAAC score of 3.25 with a ‘higher A’ grade.
Prof. Kamat is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Economic Analysis from the Osmania University, Hyderabad, a collaboration program with the University of Texas at Austin, US, besides having a PhD. from IIT Bombay (Powai-Mumbai) in the area of Empirical Finance. A University Gold Medalist at the Post Graduate level from Goa University, he has a PG in Business Administration from Central University Pondicherry and has obtained Teacher Fellowships from IIM Indore and IIIM Kozhikode.
Prof. Kamat is the youngest full Professor, youngest Principal and the youngest assessor at the NAAC Peer teams and has assessed around ten colleges in the country to date.
Prof. Kamat has guided 03 PhDs in Finance and examined over a dozen PhDs from different Universities. Having authored 12 books in Accounting & Commerce, completed 02 industry-sanctioned projects and 02 UGC projects, he has also authored 90 academic publications with H-index: of 7 and an i-10 index: of 6 with 149 citations. Prof. Kamat is on the subject's editorial board of over 6 International Journals.
As a famous writer in the print media, Prof. Kamat contributes weekly columns to the print media every month. He earlier served as Professor at Damodar College for 18 years and has been an expert faculty at reputed management institutions like Narsee Monjee, S.P. Jain Institute, and T.A. Pai Management Institute at Manipal, the BSE and NSE Training Institute in Mumbai, besides Goa Institute of Management and Goa University in Investment Research and Economic Policy.
Prof. Kamat writes a blog titled ‘Economically Yours’ on Dainik Gomantak and the Navhind Times every Saturday. Currently, Hon. Trustee of Gurukul Academy, a CBSE School in Ponda, and on the Governing Body of Salgaocar College of Law and Goa University Court. He was formerly Chairman of the Goa Commerce Association and Chairman of the Education Committee of the GCCI; He worked earlier as Coordinator of the Goa Lusophonia Games 2013 and Advisor to the Goa Industrial Development Corporation, Government of Goa and for the transformation of the GIDC was awarded Best Business Enabler of the Year 2016 by Business Goa magazine. For his writings, he is cited as the Best Columnist of the Year 2018 by Dainik Gomantak, while for his excellence in the field of education and youth empowerment he was awarded the Bharat Excellence National Award and Gold Medal, the Indo-Global National Leadership Award, and National Youth Empowerment Award in recognition of extraordinary achievements in education and social service.
Prof. Kamat has bagged the Best Research Paper award and Gold Medal for his research work at the All-India Accounting Conference. He has been the distinguished recipient of the Prof. Manubhai Shah Memorial Award and the Gold Medal from the Indian Commerce Association.
Famous for his analysis and commentaries on economics, politics and public policy on the media, he is also passionate about Classical Music, Reading and Football.
Professor Manoj S. Kamat
Principal,
Dempo Charities Trust's Srinivassa Sinai Dempo College of Commerce & Economics, Cujira-Bambolim.
Professor of Commerce, Shree Damodar College-Margao (on Lien)
