Prof. J P Verma is the founder Vice Chancellor of Sri Sri Aniruddhadeva Sports University of Assam. This is a state university of Assam Government established at Chabua in Dibrugarh. The university is a high-class university dedicated for the sports education and research activities in the north eastern region of India. Prior to this assignment Prof. Verma was Head, Department of Sport Psychology and Dean of Student Welfare at Lakshmibai National Institute of Physical Education, Gwalior. He has more than 38 years of teaching and research experience. He also worked as the Director of the Centre for Advanced Studies for three years. He holds three master’s degrees; in Statistics, Psychology and Computer Application and a Ph.D. in Mathematics. Prof. Verma has published eleven books on research and statistics in the area of management, psychology, exercise science, health, sports and physical education, and 45 research papers/articles, and has developed sports statistics as an academic discipline. He was a visiting fellow at the University of Sydney in 2002 and has held academic visits in universities in Japan, Bulgaria, Qatar, Australia, Poland and Scotland, where he conducted numerous workshops on research methodology, research designs, multivariate analysis and data modeling in the area of management, social sciences, physical education, sports sciences, economics and health sciences.

Priyam Verma is currently pursuing his Ph.D. Economics at the University of Houston, Texas. He completed his M.Phil. in Development Economics and masters in Economics at Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), Mumbai. He has worked on monetary policy issues of developing countries, land valuations in rural India and economics of child labor in India. His current interests include econometrics, behavioral economics, experimental economics and macroeconomics.