Rajesh Dey is a Senior Editor on the Global Books Editorial team at Taylor and Francis Group, where he primarily collaborates with academic authors from South Asia and Africa. With over fifteen years of experience in the publishing industry, Rajesh has worked with prestigious international publishing houses like Cambridge University Press, SAGE, and Pearson. He specialises in managing scholarly programs and is a strong advocate for Open Access and Open Research. Rajesh Dey holds an MBA (Business Management) from Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS) and an M.A. in Philosophy (Ethics and Philosophy of Language as specialisations) from Rabindra Bharati University. He is also Google Project Management Certified. As an author, his expertise extends to contributing to academic discussions, such as a chapter on "Beyond Borderlines: Safeguarding and Preservation of Shared Intangible Cultural Heritage between ASEAN and India," published in a Scopus-indexed edited book. As part of his MBA, Rajesh completed a research project on "An Analytical Study on Impact of Social Capital in Hiring Practices of Private Companies in Urban India: Is Equal Employment Opportunity Possible in a Socially Unequal Society?". Additionally, He has authored literary fiction and non-fiction books in Bengali. His articles have been published in books and occasionally in national newspapers like the Financial Times.Rajesh is frequently invited to academic institutions across India to conduct classes and workshops on academic publishing, publishing ethics, etc. Some of his recent engagements include sessions at the Vellore institute of Technology Vellore (VIT-Vellore), Manipal Academy of Higher Education (MAHE-Manipal), Central University of Himachal Pradesh, Pondicherry University, Woxsen University, Pimpri Chinchwad University, Giri Institute of Development Studies, etc.