Nikunj Kapadia is an Associate Professor of Finance at the Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His research interests include Equity Derivatives, Volatility, Real Options and Credit Risk. He has published articles in the Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Derivatives, and the Journal of Alternative Investments, and served on the editorial board of the Financial Analyst Journal.

Professor Kapadia’s business experience includes working and consulting with Bear Stearns in New York and Gifford Fong Associates in California. He is on the board of AurionPro. He is the recipient of the Caesarea Best Paper in Risk Management at the 2005 Western Finance Association meeting and a 2004 Fellow of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

Professor Kapadia holds a Ph. D. in Finance from the Stern School of Business, New York University, and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. He has also taught at the Stern School of Business, R. H. Smith School of Business, and the China-Europe International Business School.