Dr. Archana Raheja completed her Ph.D. in Banking and Finance in one continuous effort after her Bachelors and Masters degrees from the prestigious University Business School (UBS), Chandigarh, India. As a merit student, she has been a scholarship winner throughout her academic years and is a British Mensa scholar. She is also the Instructor for Certified Management Accountant from ICMA, Australia and delivers their classroom based Management Accounting course in India.

Currently, Archana is Dean of New Delhi campus of IBAT School of Management and also teaches Accounting and Finance to MBA students at the Institute. Her international experience includes coordinating and teaching for Becker's CPA (Certified Public Accountant) preparatory course in Muscat, Oman (1998 - 99); Visiting Faculty at the Oman Institute of Banking and Finance (1997-98). Other teaching assignments included Visiting Lecturer at Skyline Business School (2005) and Lecturer of Accounting at GND University, Panjab (1993-95). She has over 1000 hours of experience in taking knowledge based workshops in Finance and Accounting for leading companies.

Archana is also a trained instructional designer. She is perhaps just one of the few Subject Matter Experts on Finance in India who have in-depth experience of executing eLearning projects. She was working with knowledge Solutions Business of NIIT Limited from 2000 till 2003. and was involved in developing web-based classrooms. Subsequently she has done a number of assignments with leading companies like eMIND in creating content in areas such as US Taxation, US Securities including NASD regulations, US GAAP and Convergence to IAS, asset and mortgage backed securities, world equity and bond markets, US mutual funds, and Corporate Finance among others.

Dr. Raheja is a keen crossword enthusiast and is also fond of experimenting with new microwave recipes.