BIOGRAPHY

Sankarshan Basu is a Professor in the Finance and Accounting Area at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB). He has been the Chairperson of the Post Graduate Programme in Public Policy and Management (between April 2017 – March 2019), the Chairperson of Career Development Services (between April 2012 – March 2015) and Chairperson of Alumni Relations (between January 2007 – September 2011) at IIMB. Sankarshan has a B.Sc. with honours in Statistics from Presidency College, Calcutta, M.Sc. in Statistics from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. His primary research and teaching interests are in financial markets and quantitative finance, particularly derivatives and fixed income securities and insurance and pension issues. Prior to joining IIMB, Sankarshan has also worked with ICICI Ltd. (now ICICI Bank Ltd.), as well as been a teaching faculty at London School of Economics and Political Science and Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, U.K. Sankarshan has also been a Visiting Professor at University of Twente, Netherlands, Gothenburg University, Sweden, ESCP, Paris, CFVG, Ho Chi Min City and Hanoi, Vietnam and Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok. Sankarshan is active in teaching, consulting (both in India and outside India) as well as well as research. He has published a number of papers, book chapters as well as two books. He is very well travelled and has presented his works at a number of international conferences. He also serves on the boards of a couple of companies. Sankarshan also serves on the international selection panel for the selection of Fellows for the German Chancellor Fellow, a fellowship run and administered by the Office the German Chancellor. He is also a founder member of the Indian Finance Association (IFA) and continues to serve as its Secretary since the founding of IFA in 2015. He has also served in various roles within the Asia Pacific Risk and Insurance Association (APRIA) including as President for the year 2014 – 2015. He is currently serving as a Member of the Governing Council, PPF