Prof. Nawal Kishor is M.Com, PGDIM and Ph.D. He has been working at IGNOU for the last 30 years. He has been engaged in teaching, training, research and other academic activities. He has published 37 research papers in reputed  international and national journals. He has presented 15 research papers in international and national conferences. He has been actively involved as Key note speaker, technical session chairperson, guest of honour, and resource person in international and national conferences. He had been the resource person for academic staff colleges of various universities as well as for the faculty development programmes. He has been the managing editor  of The Indian Journal of Commerce and editor of Indian Journal of Open Learning. He has visited USA, Canada, Australia, France, Germany, UK, Netherlands, Italy, Switzerland, Ethiopia, Singapore, Hongkong, UAE, Namibia, etc. for academic purposes. He has received silver medal for the second best research paper award in the year 2014.His areas of interest are: International Business Management, International Marketing, Foreign Trade, Export- Import Procedures, Retail Management, Organisational Behaviour, General Management, Commerce and Distance Education.