Dr. Pingali Venugopal has teaching, industry, consulting and research experience in the Marketing function for over 40 years. He has been a faculty at XLRI, Jamshedpur since 1994 and the Dean of the institute from 2004 to 2010.

He has also been a visiting faculty to leading institutes in India including the Indian Institutes of Management in Ahmedabad, Lucknow, Kolkata, Ranchi, Kashipur, Visakhapatnam and Indore and international institutes including American University of Armenia and Educatis University Switzerland.

He has also been inducted as a co-trainer for programmes done by Indo- US-Africa Trilateral co-operation on food security for functionaries from Kenya, Malawi and Liberia.

Prior to joining academics, Venugopal worked in the marketing department of Coromandel Fertilisers and Nagarjuna Fertilisers and Chemicals ltd for a period of 10 years.

He has published 8 books and several articles in leading international journals.

European Scientific Research Journal recognized him with the prestigious Distinguished Scholar Award for 2021.