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 as major) from IIM Lucknow and a Bachelor in Science (Mathematics) from the University of Allahabad.

He has 20 years of experience at managerial level in EPFO. His primary research interests are Asset pricing, financial market, IPO, behavioral 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.

Financial Economics

Quantitative finance, Financial engineering, Derivatives, Corporate valuation, Investment management, Financial management, International Finance, Managerial economics.