Aswath Damodaran | |
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Born | Aswath Damodaran September 23, 1957 Chennai, India |
Nationality | Indian-American |
Alma mater | Loyola College, Chennai (B.Com.) IIM Bangalore (PGDM) UCLA Anderson School of Management (MBA, PhD) |
Occupation(s) | Professor, author |
Employer | New York University Stern School of Business |
Known for | Finance and Investment research |
Awards | Richard L. Rosenthal Award for Innovation in Investment Management and Corporate Finance Herbert Simon Award |
Website | Damodaran Online · blog |
Aswath Damodaran (born 24 September 1957), [1] is an Indian-American academic who currenly serves as Kerschner Family Chair in Finance Education and is also Professor of Finance at Stern School of Business, New York University. [2]
He is well known as the author of several widely used academic and practitioner texts on valuation, corporate finance and investment management; as well as a provider of comprehensive data for valuation purposes. [3]
He was born in Chennai, India. [4] Damodaran received a Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting from Loyola College, Chennai at University of Madras (1977) and a post graduate diploma in Management (equivalent to an MBA ) from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (1979). [5] [6] He later earned both Master of Business Administration in finance (1981) and Doctor of Philosophy in finance (1985) from Anderson School of Management at University of California, Los Angeles.
Damodaran has been a professor at New York University's Stern School of Business, since 1986, focusing on [7] corporate finance and equity valuation.
He is on the faculty of the TRIUM Global Executive MBA Program, an alliance of NYU Stern, the London School of Economics and HEC School of Management. [8] Other teaching includes the "Valuation" program for Stern Executive Education [9] as well as the "Advanced Valuation" and "Corporate Finance" online certificates at NYU Stern. [10] From 1984 to 1986 he was a visiting lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley.
As above, Professor Damodaran has written several books on equity valuation, as well as on corporate finance and investments. [5]