Marti G. Subrahmanyam is the Charles E. Merrill Professor of Finance and Economics in the Stern School of Business at New York University. He holds a degree in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, a post-graduate diploma in business administration from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and a doctorate in finance and economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Professor Subrahmanyam has published numerous articles and books in the area of corporate finance, capital markets and international finance. He has been a visiting professor at leading academic institutions in Australia, England, France, Germany, India, Italy and Singapore, including the University of Melbourne, INSEAD, France, LUISS, Rome, Italy, Singapore Management University and Churchill College, Cambridge University.
He has served as a consultant to several corporations, industrial groups, and financial institutions in the U.S., Europe, Asia and Latin America. He also sits on the boards of several companies, including the Animi Offshore Fund Ltd., ICICI Bank Ltd. (NYSE: IBN), Infosys Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: INFY), the Murugappa Group, Nexgen Financial Holdings Ltd. and Nomura Asset Management (USA) Inc. He has also served as an advisor to international and government organizations. He currently serves on the Market Development Advisory Committee of the Securities and Exchange Board of India. He has taught extensively on executive programs in over twenty countries around the world.
Professor Subrahmanyam currently serves or has served as an Associate Editor of the European Financial Management, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Business Finance and Accounting, Journal of Finance, Management Science, Journal of Derivatives, Journal of International Finance and Accounting, and Japan and the World Economy. He is the Editor of an academic journal specializing in derivative securities and markets entitled Review of Derivatives Research. His current research interests include valuation of corporate securities, options and futures markets, equilibrium models of asset pricing, market microstructure, and the term structure of interest rates. His recent books include Recent Advances in Corporate Finance (Irwin, l985) and Financial Options: From Theory to Practice (Dow Jones-Irwin, l992). He is currently working on a new book, Interest Rate Derivative Products. Professor Subrahmanyam has won several teaching awards including, most recently, New York University’s Distinguished Teaching Medal in 2003.