Venkatesh Panchapagesan is a Professor of Finance and heads the Real Estate Research Initiative at IIM Bangalore. He has more than 25 years of experience in academia and in the global financial services industry, after finishing his Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Southern California. Prior to joining IIMB in September 2011, he was with the world’s largest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates, where he led efforts to revamp trading analytical infrastructure. He also worked with Goldman Sachs Asset Management in New York between 2005 and 2008 overseeing trading research for their quantitative hedge funds. Before joining Wall Street, he was a Finance Professor at the Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis from 1998 to 2005 and has published in top peer-reviewed global academic and practitioner journals. He was also invited to be the NASDAQ stock market’s visiting economist between 2002-03.

He is certified in India as a Chartered Accountant and a Cost Accountant and holds a postgraduate management degree from IIM (Calcutta) as well. Aside from his academic responsibilities, he is also an independent director and consults for a few Indian companies. He has been a member of several government committees and was a member of the Governing Council of CAFRAL, RBI’s research think tank, between 2017-20. He was India’s sole academic representative on the advisory committee for World Economic Forum’s Initiative on Real Estate in 2015-16.