Prof. Prakash G Apte

Director

 

Prof. Prakash G. Apte is the Director and UTI Chair Professor at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. His special areas of interest are international finance, exchange rate behaviour, financial derivatives and risk management.

Prof. Apte holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University, PGDM from IIM Calcutta and B. Tech. from IIT Bombay. He has taught Economics at the Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, USA and Columbia University. He was a Consultant at Edison Electric Institute, New York and a Project Manager at Centron Industrial Alliance, Bombay.

Prof. Apte has published four books - International Financial Management, Global Business Finance, Text Book of Econometrics and Macro Economics and several articles in professional journals and economic and financial periodicals.

He has served on expert committees appointed by NSE, SEBI and RBI. He is on the Board of several companies and institutions such as BEML, Power Finance Corporation and IIT-B. He is also a consultant to several leading organizations in government, public and private sectors. He has been a Visiting Faculty at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, Goteborg University, Sweden and S.P. Jain Centre of Management, Singapore.