Dr. Maneka Goyal is an Assistant Professor at IIPM Bengaluru in the area of Food Business Management. She did her master’s from National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management (NIFTEM) Sonipat, where she was awarded gold medal for academic excellence. She completed her PhD from Indian Institute of Management Lucknow. The title of her thesis is ‘Organic Foods: Social Capital, Knowledge Sharing, and Innovations in Value Networks’. Her areas of interest are Value chain thinking, collaborative strategies, relationship management and networks. Prior to her doctoral studies, she worked as an Assistant Manager-Quality department in food industry. 

• Goyal, M., & Kumar, S. (2024). Competitive Strategy to Collaborative Strategy: Tale of organic food firms from an emerging economy. Journal of International Food & Agribusiness Marketing, 36(1), 68-92.
• Singh, M., Goyal, M., Goyal, R., & Verma, A. (2016). Comparative field performance of rotavator and rotary plough. Agric. Res. J., 53(1), 73-76.

• Worked as Assistant Manager in the Quality department at Devyani Food Industries Ltd. (Creambell Ice Creams).
• Worked as Guest Faculty in the Dept of Food Processing Technology at Sri Guru Granth Sahib World University.
• Worked as Assistant Professor in the Strategic Management area at Institute of Management Technology Hyderabad.

• Fellow Programme in Management/Ph.D:  
• Indian Institute of Management Lucknow (IIML)
• Masters of Technology: Food Technology and Management
• National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management (NIFTEM) Sonipat
• Bachelors of Technology: Agricultural Engineering
• Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), Ludhiana