Ankit Singhal

Dr. Ankit Singhal is an Assistant Professor in the area of Finance & Accounting at IFMR Graduate School of Business, KREA University. His teaching and research interests lies in the area of Corporate Finance specifically Mergers, Acquisitions & Restructurings, Family Firms, Initial Public Offerings (IPOs), Emerging Markets.
Dr. Ankit Singhal has presented his research at various national and international conferences including Allied Social Science Association (ASSA) meetings, International Young Finance Scholar’s Conference (IYFSC), World Finance Conference, Emerging Market Finance (EMF), Capital Markets Conference, PAN IIM World Management Conference etc.
Dr. Ankit Singhal holds a PhD in Empirical Corporate Finance from School of Management & Entrepreneurship, Shiv Nadar University, MBA in Banking & Finance from Panjab University, M.Sc. in Mathematics from MDU, Rohtak and B.A. (Hons.) Mathematics from Ramjas College, Delhi University.

Balasubramanian G

Former Dean of IFMR, Prof G Balasubramanian has more than three decades of experience in executive training, teaching, consulting and research in Accounting, Finance and Information Technology.

He has trained more than 1000 executives across multiple organization covering both private and public sector. Some of his most sought after courses are Finance for Managers and Financial Modeling.

Currently a visiting faculty to several African countries in Finance and Information Technology, under the sponsorship of the Commonwealth Secretariat, Prof G Balasubramanian has also engaged with Indian Institute of Management, Indore, IIM Trichy, Great Lakes Institute of Management and LIBA. An approved PhD guide at Madras University, Prof G Balasubramanian is also a member of the doctoral committee at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

He has designed and implemented Decision Support Systems for major organizations, and published papers on capital markets, accounting, information technology, and knowledge management. A resource person in a study of disinvestments of public sector enterprises sponsored by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Prof G Balasubramanian has also co-authored a book titled “Brain Re-engineering”, published by Sage Publications.

He serves as the Managing Editor of “Journal of Emerging Market Finance”, IFMR GSB’s Journal, published by Sage Publications.

Jayaram R

A practicing cost and management accountant, Dr. Jayaram R has been associated with IFMR since 2008, and is currently an adjunct faculty. He teaches Cost & Management Accounting, Strategic Cost Management and Financial Accounting in full time and part time Programmes. He has a PhD in Cost Management and is a Qualified Management Accountant from CIMA UK. Dr. Jayaram comes with more than a decade and half of experience in Cost & Management Accounting, Financial Accounting and Internal Audit Fields, and is a Fellow Member of Institute of Cost & Management Accountants of India.He has also served as faculty at SIRC of ICAI, RKM Vivekananda College (Madras University) and as a visiting faculty at IIM Trichy. Apart from teaching in the PGDM program, Prof Jayaram is also actively involved with IFMR’s Management Development Programmes for working executives.

Krishnan Chidambaram

Lakshmi Padmakumari

An Assistant Professor at IFMR GSB, Prof Lakshmi’s research interests include Asset pricing, volatility estimation, risk management, corporate governance and firm valuation. At IFMR, she handles subjects like Foundations of Finance, Corporate Finance etc., and has conducted lectures in accounting and derivatives and risk management.

Prof Lakshmi has a Masters in Commerce (Finance) and Bachelors in Commerce (Taxation Law & Practice) from the University of Kerala, and a PGDBA with finance as specialization from Symbiosis Institute, Pune. She was awarded Ph.D. in Finance in 2018, for her dissertation on Asset Pricing and Volatility Estimation.

Praveen Bhagawan

Praveen Bhagawan’s research and teaching interests are in the areas of Corporate Finance (more specifically Currency Risk Management), International Financial Management, Financial Statement Analysis, and Corporate Social Responsibility.

Prof Bhagawan has presented his research at top academic conferences including the European Financial Management Association, Applied Financial Modelling Conference, India Finance Conference (held at IIM-A, IIM-B, and IIM-C), COSMAR (held at Indian Institute of Science (IISc, Bangalore), and International Conference on Financial Markets & Corporate Finance (held at IIT Madras and IIT Kanpur). He has been awarded Best Paper Award in the area of Corporate Finance for the research papers which he presented at IISc Bangalore in 2013, at IIT Madras in 2016, and at IIT Kanpur in 2018. He also attended the American Finance Association Meetings in 2015. He has published some of his research papers in peer-reviewed journals.

Praveen holds a PhD from IFMR GSB and Madras University, a Post Graduate Diploma in Financial Management from Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan, Bangalore, and a Masters’ Degree from Bangalore University.

Sesha Sai Ram Meka

Sesha Meka is Assistant Professor in Finance and Accounting area. Prior to this, he worked as a full time visiting faculty at IIM Nagpur. He has a Ph.D. in Accounting and Finance from IIM Bangalore (2021), an M.S. in Economics from ISI Delhi (2009), and a B.Tech. in Chemical Engineering from IIT Madras (2007). His research interests are in corporate investments, financing choices, and political uncertainty. His work is published in the Journal of Law, Finance, and Accounting. Prior to joining Ph.D., he worked as a researcher at ISB, Hyderabad.

Srinivasan Kalyanasundaram

Prof. Srinivasan Kalyanasundaram is a Professor of Practice in the area of Finance at IFMR Graduate School of Business, KREA University. He has 3 decades of industry experience across Banking, Capital Markets, Financial Risk Management and Wealth Management. His research interest includes liquidity risk in stock exchanges, impact of FRTB on Indian Banking Sector.

Prof. Srinivasan is a qualified Chartered Accountant (all-India rank 46) and Cost and Management Accountant. He has 16 years of IT and consulting experience with IBM and Cap Gemini. In this time, he has led delivery and solutioning of digital transformation, Blockchain Initiatives, Fintech, Analytics, Trading system revamp and Banking modernization projects for many global banks and capital market firms.

Previously, he has worked at ICICI Bank’s Treasury, Investments, Lending and IT Captive (ICICI Infotech) for over a decade. Further, his academic journey includes two years as a faculty at IFMR’s Centre for Advanced Financial Studies, where he taught Bank Management and Financial Risk Management to MBA students specializing in Finance. He has co-authored white papers on Transaction Banking with several IBM global leaders published by IBM in SIBOS.

Prof. Srinivasan is an IBM certified Blockchain consultant, Banking Platinum Consultant, Financial Markets Gold Consultant and IBM Consulting Profession Expert. He has strong consulting experience specializing in digital transformation, blockchain business value design, process consulting, application portfolio rationalization, and package implementation with BFM Institutions.

Tapan Kar

Prof. Tapan Kar has a Ph.D. in Decision Sciences from IIM Bangalore and an M.Sc. in Mathematics from Hyderabad Central University. He has around 4 years of experience at IIM Nagpur as an Assistant Professor. His research interests are in Financial Mathematics, Forecasting, and Time Series Modeling.

Vinod Kumar

Dr. Vinod Kumar graduated with a doctoral title in Finance & Accounting from the Indian Institute of Management Indore in March 2017. Prior to this, he earned a PGDM (Finance and Economics) from IIM Lucknow and a Bachelor in Science (Mathematics) from the University of Allahabad. He has 20 years of industrial experience of working in EPFO.

His teaching interests include financial engineering, corporate valuation, investment management, financial management, quantitative application in finance, international finance, economic growth and development. His primary research interests is the Asset pricing, financial market, IPO, behavioural finance, and growth economics
His research papers (published / conference) and current projects include streams of finance and economics as diverse as financial economics to valuation theories. In addition, he has attended several national and international level conferences.

His personal interests include cooking, writing, social work, and readings in history, science discoveries, philosophy, politics, and psychology.