Dr. Aviral Kumar Tiwari is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the Indian Institute of Management Bodh Gaya (IIMBG) in the Department of Economics and Business Environment. Prof. Tiwari is a C-EENRG fellow at the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge and Research Fellows, University of Economics Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Prior to joining IIMBG, he worked as Associate Professor at Rajagiri Business School (RBS), India and Montpellier Business School (MBS), Montpellier, France from where he received his post-doc as well. After graduating with a degree in Economics from Lucknow University, Lucknow, India, he received his M.Phil. (in Labour Economics) and Ph.D. (in Energy and Environment) from ICFAI University Tripura. He is basically an applied economist with broad empirical interests with a focus on but not limited to emerging economies in particular Asia. His research interests focus on various issues concerning energy, environment, tourism, macroeconomy and growth & development etc. He has published widely in peer-reviewed international journals and contributed more than 100 ABDC-A &A* research papers so far. He is the only Economist included from India in the career ranking of World’s top 2% scientists list of 2021 published by Stanford University Study. He is ranked at first position in India as a researcher by IDEAS. He is one of the Highly Cited Researcher 2020 by Clarivate™ of Web of Science™. He is one of the recipients of M J Manohar Rao Award (for young econometrician) for 2014 from The Indian Econometric Society, 2015. He is Life member, Indian Economic Association, India and member at several other international associations such as International Association for Energy Economics (IAEE), USA, Association for Comparative Economic Studies, USA, Western Economic Association International, USA etc. He holds different editorial positions at more than 10 journals of international repute (ABDC, Scopus and ABS indexed journals).