Ashok Banerjee Editor

Partha Ray is Director, National Institute of Bank Management, Pune. He was a Professor of Economics at the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta for nearly a decade. During 2007 – 2011 he was Adviser to the Executive Director (India) at the International Monetary Fund. Earlier (during 1989 – 2006) he was working in the specialist cadre of Economists in the RBI. Educated in Kolkata, Mumbai and Oxford, he has written extensively on issues relating to various macroeconomic and financial issues.

Ashok Banerjee, a Chartered Accountant and PhD, joined the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Udaipur as Director on 1 August 2022. Previously, he was a Professor (Finance and Control) at IIM Calcutta for almost 18 years and at IIM Lucknow for 4 years. His current areas of research include high frequency finance and sentiment analysis. Ashok has served as an independent director on the Boards of companies in the healthcare, entertainment and financial services sectors.

Sankarshan Basu is a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a Master’s degree holder from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. Currently, Sankarshan is a Professor of Finance at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, where he has been a faculty since 2002. Apart from being active in both teaching and research, he also serves on the boards of banks and companies in the financial sector.