Milind Rao

Prof Milind Rao is Adjunct Professor at HKUST where he has taught in the Department of Economics since 2003. Prior to HKUST, Professor Rao taught at the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University and at the Stern School of Business at New York University.

Prof Rao has been recognized for his outstanding teaching abilities. He has been the recipient of numerous teaching awards at HKUST and has won the first Best Faculty Award in this joint EMBA program between HKUST and SKOLKOVO. His course “Global Macroeconomics”, was named one of three “CEMS Courses of the Year” in 2016. His classes are consistently highest rated and oversubscribed with most of the students in the MBA program taking his courses every year in subjects such as Global Macroeconomics, Money and Macroeconomics and Value Investing.

He won various teaching awards including "Professor of the Year" in 2006, 2008, 2010 and 2012.

Research interests:

International macroeconomics, international finance, international trade, international flows of capital and labor; hedge fund strategies, management and assessment; design of optimal investment strategies and portfolios.