Ravi Jain

Prof. Ravi Jain is a Visiting Faculty in Finance at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Indian School of Business. He also teaches regularly for the UCLA Post Graduate Program in Management for Executives and the Berkeley Executive Program in Management. He has previously taught at the University of Southern California, Temple University, and Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, and in executive programs for Accenture, Aditya Birla Group, Citibank India, Citibank Singapore, Indian School of Business, Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC), McKinsey, NTPC, NUS Business School, Oberoi Group, the Risk Management Institute at NUS, Standard Chartered Bank, UBS Global Asset Management, and UBS Wealth Management. He has served as the Academic Director of the NUS MSc (Management) and CEMS Master’s in International Management (MIM) programs and as a consultant on international financial markets for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva.

Prof. Jain is a recipient of several teaching awards at NUS including the university’s Annual Teaching Excellence Award, the business school’s Outstanding Educator Award, and the MBA Program’s Best Lecturer Award. He is a co-author (with Zvi Bodie, Alex Kane, and Alan J. Marcus) of Investments Asia Global Edition (published by McGraw Hill), a textbook on investments and portfolio management that is widely used in the top Asian business schools. He has published papers in academic journals on topics such as dividend policy, ownership structure, closed-end fund discounts, market microstructure, reverse takeovers, and direct share purchases. He has a PhD in Finance from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) UCLA Anderson School of Management
• High School Mayo College, Ajmer

Companies

• Visiting Faculty in Finance NUS Business School (2018 — 2021)
• Visiting Faculty in Finance Indian School of Business (2015 — 2020)
• Senior Lecturer of Finance NUS Business School (2006 — 2017)
• Academic Director, MSc (Management) and CEMS Master in International Management Programmes NUS Business School (2012 — 2015)
• Visiting Scholar Indian School of Business (2005 — 2006)
• Assistant Professor of Finance Fox School of Business at Temple University (2000 — 2005)
• Lecturer of Finance USC Marshall School of Business (1999 — 2000)
• Consultant UNCTAD (1995 — 1995)