Dr. Yojna Bansal is Program Director – BSc Finance and Faculty of Finance & Accounting at Plekhanov University of Economics, UAE. She holds a PhD in Management (Finance & Accounting), along with MBA, M.Com, MCA, and Chartered Accountancy qualifications. With over a decade of international teaching and research experience, she has taught at the University of Wollongong Dubai, Middlesex University Dubai, and Curtin University Dubai. Her research focuses on AI in Finance and Accounting, FinTech, behavioural finance, predictive analytics, and risk management. She has published extensively in Scopus-indexed journals, received Best Paper Awards, and actively contributes to curriculum development, academic collaborations, and research excellence.