Kiran Sood is a professor at Chitkara Business School, Chitkara University, Punjab, India; an affiliate professor in the faculty of Economics Management and Accountancy at the University of Malta; and a postdoc researcher in the faculty of Applied Sciences at the University of Usak, Turkey. Her areas of research cover the fields of big data and finance. She serves as an editor for several refereed journals including the IJBST International Journal of BioSciences and Technology and the International Journal of Research Culture Society. She earned her doctor of philosophy in commerce with a concentration on product portfolio performance of general insurance companies from Panjabi University, Patiala, India.