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Dr. Prasanna Chandra, Director of Centre for Financial Management, is an MBA, PhD (Finance). He has nearly five decades of teaching experience in postgraduate and executive education programmes. He was a professor of finance at Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore for nearly two decades. He was a visiting professor of finance at Southern Illinois University, USA for two years. He was appointed as a member of several committees including the Capital Issues Advisory Committee, the High-Powered Committee on Insurance Sector Reforms, and the SEBI Committee on Derivatives. He has served on the boards of several organizations including Torrent Pharmaceuticals, Power Finance Corporation, UTIIAS, ICFAI, SDMIMD, IFCI, IIM (B), Templeton Mutual Fund, Bangalore Stock Exchange Limited, and Karnataka Soaps and Detergents Limited. He has been a consultant to many organizations. Dr Chandra has conducted executive seminars for a number of organizations like TCS, Infosys, Tata Motors, ITC, NIIT, Tata Steel, Sasken Communications, BHEL, Bharat Shell, ANZ Grindlays, HMT, Canara Bank, Vysya Bank, ONGC, Wipro, GAIL, Microsoft, Motorola, and Tata Power. He has published ten other books – Strategic Financial Management: Managing for Value Creation; Financial Management: Theory and Practice; Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management; Investment Game; Corporate Valuation; Finance Sense; Fundamentals of Financial Management; Behavioural Finance and Valuation of Equity Shares and has authored over 70 articles in professional journals and business periodicals. He has been a Fulbright Scholar and a UNDP Fellow. He has received several honours including the Best Teacher Award from the Association of Indian Management Schools