Sankar De
Clinical Professor and Executive Director of the Centre for Analytical Finance

Professor Sankar De, Executive Director of the Centre for Analytical Finance at ISB, was recently conferred the title of Fellow of the Wharton Financial Institutions Center for 2006-07. He also received an invitation to join the editorial board of Macroeconomics and Finance in Emerging Market Economies, a leading journal in Finance published by Francis & Taylor. Another recent achievement to his credit is his appointment as a Member of the CII National Committee on Banking for 2006-2007.

Prior to joining the ISB, Professor De was Executive Director, Center for Professional Development in Finance (CPDF), Berkeley. He was nominated for the Teacher of the Year Award several times at Haas School of Business and was profiled in the Business Week’s annual Guide to the Best Business Schools, perhaps the highest global recognition in business education and research. He also teaches regularly in graduate programmes at Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, USA, his alma mater.

His teaching and research interests include all major fields of corporate finance, including corporate valuation, corporate diversification and planning, and corporate mergers, acquisitions, and spin-offs. His pioneering research work on the merger and consolidation of financial institutions received a US national research award in 1988.

Professor De has advised several major corporations and agencies, including the Securities Exchange Corporation of the USA and the Securities Exchange Board of India. He received his MBA degree from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, and his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley.