Raman Uppal

Biography

Raman Uppal is Professor of Finance at EDHEC Business School. He holds a bachelors degree in Economics (Honors) from St. Stephens College, Delhi University, and M.A., M.B.A and Ph.D. degrees from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to working at Edhec Business School, he was at London Business School and the University of British Columbia. He has held visiting positions at Catholic University (Leuven), the MIT Sloan School of Management, and the London School of Economics and Political Science, and has served as Co-Director of the Financial Economics Programme of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Director of the American Finance Association, and Councillor of the Society for Financial Studies. His research focuses on optimal portfolio selection and asset allocation in dynamic environments, valuation of securities in capital markets, risk management, and exchange rates. This research has been published in The Journal of Finance, The Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of International Money and Finance, and Management Science. He is currently an associate editor of The Review of Asset Pricing Studies and The Critical Finance Review, and a member of the editorial board of Mathematics and Financial Economics. In the past, he has served as an editor of the The Review of Financial Studies and the Review of Finance, and as an associate editor of Management Science.

Research Interest

optimal portfolio selection and asset allocation in dynamic environments, valuation of securities in capital markets, risk management, and exchange rates.