Paliwal is a professor at the School of Management, Pandit Deendayal Energy University, Gandhinagar-Gujarat, India. In profession since 1991, his earlier associations have been with ACC Limited (now, a subsidiary of the Adani Group; formerly Holcim Group), Pacific Institute of Management, Mohanlal Sukhadia University, India, and the India Offshore Campus of Oxford Brookes University, U.K. He sits on the Academic Advisory Board of CHARGE Energy Branding Conference, Iceland.
Paliwal contributed to "International Gas Union 2009–2012 Triennium Work Report: Building Strategic Human Capital" authored by Ieda Gomes, United Kingdom. He also contributed to the study "Promoting Energy Savings in India's Transportation Sector" with the Institute of Energy Economics Japan (IEEJ), Tokyo and METI (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry). (2014–15) He sits on advisory councils of higher education institutions and regulatory bodies.
Apart from publishing many research papers and book chapters in Management, Marketing, Energy Industry and Technology, he has authored books on B2B Marketing and Natural Gas Distribution. These include McGraw-Hill International ‘Cases in Business Marketing’ (with co-authors Ramendra Singh and Sudhir Yadav), ‘Natural Gas Transmission and Distribution Business’ by Routledge (with co-author Sudhir Yadav) and its special Indian edition (with co-author Sudhir Yadav) and, ‘Managing Petrochemicals Business’ by Routledge (with co-authors Sonal Yadav and Sudhir Yadav). He has authored the copyrighted DIAMOND Model - a structured method for Case Study Analysis in Management Education.
Dr. Paliwal has contributed with expert lectures on the energy sector and higher education in India and abroad.
↑Paliwal, Pramod; Sharma, Ritu (December 2023). "Mapping determinants of stakeholder perceptions about higher education institutions: an Indian context". International Journal of Indian Culture and Business Management. 30 (3): 324–346. doi:10.1504/IJICBM.2023.135322.
Singh, Ramendra; Paliwal, Pramod; Sakariya, Sanjay (2011). "Prabhar Oil Company, and distribution challenges in the Indian lubricants industry". Emerald Emerging Markets Case Studies. 1: 1–14. doi:10.1108/20450621111110672.
Pandian, D. J.; Mansingh, L.; Singhvi, L. K.; Tambraparni, Sridhar; Negi, B. S.; Sharma, Shaleen; Perrin, Allans; Joshi, C. D.; Shah, Dushyant; Thussu, K. L.; Kudaisya, S. K.; Manglani, Suresh; Vedvyas, Rajesh; Mehrotra, Akhil; Sarma, P P G.; Yadav, Sudhir; Paliwal, Pramod (2010). "City Gas India Roundtable 2010: Initiatives and Challenges". Vikalpa: The Journal for Decision Makers. 35 (4): 61–92. doi:10.1177/0256090920100406.