Raghavendra Rau

Raghavendra Rau is the Sir Evelyn de Rothschild Professor of Finance at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School. He is co-founder and Academic Director of the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance. His research focuses on how market participants acquire and use information. He is a past president of the European Finance Association, and a past editor of Financial Management. He serves on numerous academic editorial boards including the Journal of Corporate Finance, and the Journal of Banking and Finance. Besides the University of Cambridge, Raghu has taught at universities around the world, including the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences PO), Paris-Dauphine, the University of Luxembourg, Purdue University, the University of California at Los Angeles, and the University of California at Berkeley. Raghu was Principal at Barclays Global Investors, then the largest asset manager in the world, in San Francisco from 2008-2009. His research has frequently been covered by the popular press including the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Economist, among others. In 2015, he also won the Ig Nobel prize in Management, an award given to research that makes people laugh, and then think about it.