Dr. D. Chennappa is a Senior Professor of Commerce at Osmania University, Hyderabad. Presently, he is a Principal of University College of Commerce and Business Management, Osmania University, Hyderabad and additionally holding the responsibility as Dean, Faculty of Commerce, Satahavana University, Karim Nagar, Telangna. He obtained his M.Com., M.Phil., and Ph.D. degrees from Osmania University, Hyderabad and MBA from IGNOU. He has 31 years of teaching and research experience. He qualified National Eligibility Test (NET-1996) conducted by UGC, New Delhi. He has been teaching Quantitative Techniques for Business Decisions, Research Methodology and E-COMMERCE. He undertook four 4 minor and Two major research project sponsored by ICSSR and UGC-New Delhi. He authored 6 books and edited 15 books. His published books were widely acclaimed. He got published 6 papers in International journals and 38 papers in reputed refereed national journals. He organized five national seminars and three international Conferences on contemporary topics. He participated in three International conferences at USA and more than 50 National Seminars at national level. Under his supervision 2 M.Phils and 9 Ph.Ds have been awarded. He is a UGC Research Awardee - (2012-14) and Telangana State Best Teacher Awardee – 2019. He is a columnist for Eenadu daily News Paper.
Chennappa is a Resource Persons for various Academic Staff College in India such as UGC-MHRD Academic Staff College, OU, Hyd; OUCIP, OU, Hyd; MAANU-Central University, Hyderabad; Loyola College, Vijayawada, AP; Academic Staff College, Dr. Maratwada Baba Saheb Ambekar University, Aurangabad; Bharatidashan, SM, Anna University, Tamil Nadu, Savitribhai Phule Pune University, Pune, and Doon University, Uttarakhand.
Chennappa served as NCC officer, NSS Co-ordinator, Warden, Vice Principal, and Chief Warden for university Mess and Hostels. As a chief Warden he has introduced Online Hostel admission system in the university in 2013. He served as Chairman, Board of Studies, Mahathma Gandhi University, Nalgonda from 215 to 2017 and introduced online examination system. He also served as Principal, University Post Graduate College, Secunderabad from 2017-2018. As a Principal, Chennappa introduced complete online payment system with State Bank of India collaborations. He introduced bio metric attendance for students as well as for staff members. In the history of the college, First of its kind, first Academic Award Function was celebrated to distribute the convocation certificates to under graduate students.
Chennappa is a Founder- cum- Executive Editor for Osmania Journal for International Business Studies (ISSN 00973-5372) and also Editorial Board member for various reputed International and national journal. He is a General Secretary for Telangana Teachers Commerce Association and President for Global Research welfare Society Publication (ISBN 978-81-910003-0-6). He is a life member INDO-US Foundation ( INDUS) and the Indian Commerce Association and Indian Accounting Association. His areas of research interest include INSURANCE, E-Commerce and Indian Financial System.
