Anurag Gupta, PhD

Anurag Gupta is Professor of Finance and the Director of MF (China) at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University. In prior years he has served as Department Chair (Banking and Finance), Associate Dean (Global Initiatives), Senior Associate Dean (Graduate Programs), and most recently as Vice Dean for WSOM. His research and teaching interests include corporate risk management, development and testing of derivatives and risk models, banking regulation, energy finance and financing of start-up technologies.

Dr. Gupta’s research work has been published in top finance journals like the Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Finance, Journal of Monetary Economics, Journal of Financial Markets, Journal of Banking and Finance and the Journal of Derivatives. His work has been written about in mainstream global media (Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Bloomberg, Financial Post, etc), and he has been interviewed live on CNBC Squawk Box during the 2008-09 financial crisis. He is currently working on a large and prestigious research grant from the US Department of Energy for improving access to financing for energy start-up companies.

He won the 2004 FMA Best Paper Award in Fixed Income Research, and has presented research papers at numerous international finance conferences. He was nominated for the MBA Teaching Excellence Award at the Weatherhead School in 2002, 2004, 2007, 2008 and 2020 as well as the Theodore M. Alfred Distinguished Service Award in 2015. He has conducted several executive education programs in Corporate risk management, Fixed income option modeling, and Advanced risk estimation methods at several institutions across Asia. He is the founding director of the Cleveland Chapter of the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP). Prior to his PhD (Finance) at NYU-Stern, Dr. Gupta worked for over 2 years in general management consulting, and was awarded the Director’s Silver Medal at IIM Calcutta (MBA) and the President’s Silver Medal at IIT Delhi (BS, Chemical Engg).

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