Dr. Salma Ahmed is Phd and MBA. Her research interests include Supply Chain Management, Project Management, Healthcare and Information Technology. She has guided over 30 Phds and published almost over a hundred papers, and attended and presented papers in more than fifty conferences both at the national and international platform. She has also authored two books; one book entitled "How to Write and Analyse Cases" which was formally released in New Delhi in 2011. Notably, the book was also distributed as a part of learning module to the selected twenty participants of an International Conference on Global Supply Chain organized by Malaysian Institute of Purchase and Materials Management (MIPICS) in collaboration with Indian Institute of Material Management (IIMM) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 2011. She has a special interest in writing and analysing cases and has to her credit seventeen case analyses published in Vikalpa -- published from The Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

Another of her book is entitled “India G-20 Presidency: A Synthesis of Perspectives”. She is on the Editorial Committee of journal “Emerald Emerging Markets Case Study”.

She is an invited faculty to conducts Faculty Development Program on ‘Case Writing and Analysis’ and on ‘Business Simulation Games’. Currently she is also serving as Member In-Charge, Dawakhana Tibbiya College, AMU, Aligarh.