Research Areas:
Corporate Finance; Financial Risk Management; Management of Banks and Financial Institutions; Risk capital; Microeconomics; Impact of Regulation

Recent Consulting:
Study of the outcomes and impact of DSIR programmes during the Tenth Five-year plan (2007-08)
Bank of Baroda -Conducted a management audit for a major bank; Structured and conducted a transformation workshop
Indian Overseas Bank-Project on quality of customer service for a large South India based public sector bank
KSSIDC - Project on viability and role of the organisation in the liberalized economic environment

Academic Positions:
IIM Bangalore: 1999-present
Visiting Professor, Department of Economics, Santa Clara University, USA, 2005 spring
Visiting Faculty, Finance and Control Area, IIM Bangalore, 1996-1998
Assistant Professor, Finance, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey, 1994-1996
Graduate Assistant, Department of Economics, Krannert Graduate School of Management, Purdue University, USA, 1990-1994
Guest faculty in executive programmes at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 2007, 2008

Corporate/Public Sector Leadership:
Board of Governors, Asia Pacific Risk and Insurance Association, 2000-2003
Member, Economic Affairs Council, Federation of Karnataka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (1999-2000, 2000-2001, 2002-2003)

Significant Publications:
"Resurrecting a bank: key lessons from the turnaround of Indian Bank", Management Review, Vol. 16, No. 1, March, 2004

"Role of self regulation in the Indian Insurance Industry", jointly with S. Sitharamu, South Asia Journal of Management, Vol. 10, Issue no. 3, July-September, 2003

"Role of Self Regulatory Organisations in Insurance," conference proceedings of the 8th Conference on Insurance, FICCI, 2003

"The Challenge of Rural Insurance in India", Forte Insurance Journal, January 2003

"Uniform Regulatory Costs: Analysis of Welfare Implications in the Insurance Industry", Journal of Risk Management and Insurance, Vol. 7, 2002

"Life Insurance Potential in India: An Economic Approach", with S. Sitharamu, Vision, Vol. 6, No. 2, 2002

"Activity Based Costing in Banking Service: A Case Study of a Large Indian Private Sector Bank", with M. S. Narasimhan, Prajnan - Journal of Social and Management Sciences, Vol. XXXI, No. 2, July - September 2002

"BIS Capital Standards and Supply of Bank Loans", IIMB Working paper, 2004

"Indian software industry: lessons for emerging countries", Presented at International Conference on Management Education, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Organised by Swiss-AIT-Vietnam programme in Management Educaiton. Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, September 2001