Dr. D. Chennappa is a Senior Professor of Commerce at Osmania University, Hyderabad. Additionally, he is holding the responsibility of Dean, Faculty of Palamoor, University. He obtained his M.Com., M.Phil., and Ph.D. degrees. LLB from Osmania University, Hyderabad, B.Ed from Kakatiya University and MBA from IGNOU. He has 36 years of teaching and research experience. He qualified the State Level Eligibility Test (SLET -1995) and National Eligibility Test (NET-1996) conducted by UGC, New Delhi. He has been teaching Quantitative Techniques for Business Decisions, Research Methodology, E-COMMERCE and Strategic Management. He undertook four 4 minor and 6 major research projects sponsored by ICSSR, MGNCRE and UGC-New Delhi. He authored 4 books and edited 20 books. He has published 6 papers in International journals and 56 papers in reputed refereed national journals. He organised TEN national seminars and three international Conferences on contemporary topics. He participated in 3 International conferences held in the USA and more than 100 National Seminars held at the national level. Under his supervision 2 M.Phils and 17 Ph.Ds have been awarded. He is a UGC Research Awardee - (2012-14) , Telangana State Best Teacher Awardee – 2019, IPA Best Commerce Faculty Award – 2020, and Osmania University Vice Chancellor Awardee -2022. He is a columnist for Eenadu and Telangana Today Daily News Paper.
Chennappa is a Resource Person 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. Marathwada Baba Saheb Ambedkar University, Aurangabad; Bharathidasan, SM, Anna University, Tamil Nadu, Savitri Bhai Phule Pune University, Pune, and Doon University, Uttarakhand.
Chennappa served as NCC officer, NSS Co-Ordinator, Warden, Vice Principal, and Chief Warden for the university's Mess and Hostels. As a chief Warden, he introduced an Online Hostel admission system in the university in 2013. He served as Chairman of the Board of Studies at Mahatma Gandhi University, Nalgonda from 215 to 2017 and introduced an online examination system. He also served as Principal of the University Post Graduate College, Secunderabad from 2017-2018. Principal of the University College of Commerce and Business Management, OU from 2020 to 2022 and created an administrative discipline among the staff members. Recently, served as a REGISTRAR, Palamuru University, Mahabubnagar.
Chennappa is a Founder- cum- Executive Editor for Osmania Journal for International Business Studies (ISSN 00973-5372) and also an Editorial Board member for various reputed International and national journals. He is the President of Telangana Teachers Commerce Association and Global Research Welfare Society Publication (ISBN 978-81-910003-0-6). He is a life member INDO-US Foundation ( INDUS), the Indian Commerce Association and the Indian Accounting Association. His areas of research interest include INSURANCE, E-Commerce and the Indian Financial System. Presently, he is an Executive Editor of UGC Care, listed as 77 years old Indian Journal of Commerce.
In Social life, the Professor is serving as President of the Telangana Commerce Association (TCA) and General Secretary for the university Faculty Club, Osmania University, Hyderabad.
