Advisory Board
Raman Uppal
Raman Uppal is Professor of Finance at Edhec Business School. He holds a bachelors degree in Economics (Honors) from St. Stephens College, Delhi University, and M.A., M.B.A and Ph.D. degrees from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to working at Edhec Business School, he was at London Business School and the University of British Columbia. He has held visiting positions at Catholic University (Leuven), the MIT Sloan School of Management, and the London School of Economics and Political Science, and has served as Co-Director of the Financial Economics Programme of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR).
His research focuses on optimal portfolio selection and asset allocation in dynamic environments, valuation of securities in capital markets, risk management, and exchange rates. This research has been published in The Journal of Finance, The Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of International Money and Finance, and Management Science. He is an associate editor of Management Science, The Review of Asset Pricing Studies and The Critical Finance Review, a member of the editorial board of Mathematics and Financial Economics, and a former Editor of the The Review of Financial Studies and the Review of Finance.
With Piet Sercu, he is the author of the textbook, International Financial Markets and the Firm, (1995, South-Western Publishing) and of the research monograph, Exchange Rate Volatility, Trade and Capital Flows under Alternative Exchange Rate Regimes, (2000, Cambridge University Press), which received the Sanwa Monograph Award (from New York University).
He has taught courses on Portfolio Choice and Asset Pricing, International Financial Markets, Multina- tional Financial Management, Risk Management, and Corporate Finance to students in undergraduate, masters, doctoral and executive programs.
He has received awards for his teaching at The Wharton School, The University of British Columbia, and London Business School.
He lives in London with his wife and daughter. When not working, he spends his time thinking about the human condition, playing field hockey, rock climbing, and reading.
