Research Areas:

Corporate Finance; Investments; Portfolio Management; Risk Management; Pensions

Recent Consulting:

Consultant to various organisations such as LIC, HLL, L&T and several banks

Current Projects:

Working on the revision of the book "Indian Unincorporated- Instruments, Institutions, Regulations and Reforms"

Working on a Project regarding "Tax Havens and implications for Emerging Markets

Working on a book "In Praise of Heterogeneity "- this will encompass fields of Finance/Economics and Politics

Academic Positions:

IIM Bangalore: 1980-present

Founder Chairperson of the Centre for Insurance Research and Education (CIRE), IIM Bangalore, Centre for Capital Markets and Risk Management (CCMR), IIM Bangalore

Chairperson of the MBA Programme, IIM Bangalore (1992-1995)

Visiting Fulbright Fellow, Georgia State University, Atlanta and International Insurance Foundation, Washington D.C, USA

Visiting Professor, Finance, Faculty of Management University of Mauritius; Fellow of Salzburg Seminar at Austria

Visiting faculty, International Center for Banking and Financial Services, Manchester Business School

Visiting Fulbright scholar in Corporate Finance at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign USA

Faculty, Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta

Other Professional Appointments:

Member, Editorial Board, "ICFAI Journal of Applied Science"

Member, Editorial Board, "Journal of Insurance and Risk Management (JIRM) published by Birla Institute of Management Technology, Delhi

Member, Editorial Board, IRDA Journal of Insurance, published by Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA)

Guide to six doctoral students in the last decade at IIM Bangalore

Chairman, MBA Programme, IIM Bangalore, 1993-1996

Corporate / Public Sector Leadership:

Member, "Advisory Committee" on Secondary Markets of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)

Member, Technical Advisory Committee (TAC) on money, foreign exchange and government securities markets of Reserve Bank of India (RBI)

Member, Standing Advisory Committee on database of the Indian economy of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI)

Member of Board of default committee of National Stock Exchange (NSE)

National Trustee, the New Pension System (NPS) created by the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority of India (PFRDA)

Member, International Academic Advisory Board (IAAB) of Singapore College of Insurance (SCI)

Member, the expert committee (L C Gupta Committee) on derivative trading appointed by Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI)

Member of a committee constituted by Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority (IRDA) to study the pension schemes for the unorganized sector

Member of the multi-disciplinary high power group to reform Employees Provident Fund Organization (EPFO)

President of the Asia Pacific Risk and Insurance Association (APRIA) head-quartered in Singapore

Member of the board of several corporate organisations and banks

Regular columnist to several publications such as The Hindu Business Line and DNA Money

Awards:

Named one of the best ten professors at all IIMs by Business Today magazine during 2006-2007

National Fellow of ICSSR-in recognition to contribution to social sciences

Significant Publications:

Books/Book chapters:

1. India Unincorporated - ICFAI university press-2006

2. Indian Pension Systems Facing the Future - (jointly with ING group) -- Tata McGraw-Hill -2007

3. International Pensions and Benefits-Tolleys U.K -Editor for the India chapter - 2003/2006

4. Pensions in Asia -Edited by Noriyuki Takayama- Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Editor for India chapter-2005

5. Transcending conflicts -Indian and the Eastern way 2008, Global Foundation for Civilisational Harmony (member editorial board)

6. Chapter "Thoughts on India and China" in the book "China and India - So Similar, Yet So Different" edited by Mridula and published by ICFAI university press, 2006

7. Chapter "Financial Sector Reforms: Challenges Ahead" in the book "Understanding Financial Sector Reforms: an Indian Perspective" edited by Professor (Dr.) Tamal Datta Chaudhuri and published by ICFAI University Press, 2006

8. Chapter "GDP estimation: the Role of the Service Sector" in the book "GDP Estimation: the Need for a Relook" edited by Jayshree Bose and published by ICFAI university press, 2006

Articles:

1. Integrate Credit Markets to tame inflation -Eternal India  August2010

2. Foreign Universities Bill: Gifting India to the West ,a second Time -Eternal India April 2010

3. Tax Havens can Destabilize our Financial Markets-Eternal India Feb 2010

4.Three Major conflicts and India's Strategy-Eternal India- September 2009

5. "Subprime Crisis - the Lessons to be Learnt" - The Analyst - ICFAI University Press, Feb 2009

6. "Determinants of IPO Under-Pricing in the National Stock Exchange of India" - the ICFAI Journal of Applied Finance - the ICFAI University Press - January 2009

7. Impact of the Institutional Investors on the Market-- Indian Journal of Capital Market, quarterly journal of the Bombay Stock Exchange, April -June 2008

8. "Declining Joint Family and Emerging Crisis in Old Age Security" International Journal of Indian Culture and Business Management, 2007