Professor Chowdhry is a Professor of Finance, Co-Chair of the Global Economics and Management Area, and Director of the Centre for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) at The Anderson School at UCLA where he has held an appointment since 1988.
Professor Chowdhry has also taught at the University of Chicago, University of Illinois at Chicago, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and the Indian School of Business. He received his PhD in 1989 from the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago. He also has an MBA. in Finance from the University of Iowa and a BTech. in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology.
His research interests, on which he has published several papers in finance and economics journals, are in International Finance and Corporate Finance and Strategy. He is on the editorial board of a number of finance journals. He teaches International Finance, Corporate Finance, and Financial Institutions at Anderson. He has also organised and taught Executive Education programmes on Financial Derivatives, Corporate Risk Management and Valuation in Los Angeles, Singapore, Hong Kong, Mumbai, and Hyderabad.