Latha Ramchand is an American academic and an international and corporate finance professional expert.[1] She is a professor of finance and has taught at the graduate level.[1] Ramchand has taught in the MBA programs at Northwestern University,Kellogg Graduate School of Management,the University of Houston and the Indian School of Business.[1] She teaches in the areas of corporate and international finance and risk management and leadership,mergers and acquisitions,and corporate governance,which are primarily her focus of research.[1] Ramchand is the Chancellor and Executive Vice President of Indiana University Indianapolis (IU Indianapolis).[2]
Ramchand is a native of Thiruvananthapuram,Kerala but was raised in Mumbai.[3] She attended University of Mumbai where she received her master's and bachelor's degrees in Economics.[4] With the encouragement from a professor,she then moved to the United States of America to pursue a doctoral degree from Northwestern University.[4][2] Prior to her move,her parents suggested she get married,and shortly after she married her husband,Ram.[2][5]
Career
Upon graduating with her PhD in finance,she began working for a bank.[2] From 2011 to 2018,Ramchand served as the dean of the C.T. Baer College of Business at the University of Houston.[4] She spearheaded initiatives and programming that connected the university to its community and promoted diversity and inclusion.[6] To support women attending business school,she launched the Working Families Agenda which provided research that organizations can use to establish equitable workplace policies.[6] She created a program called Sustainable Urban Renewal,that connected students with entrepreneurs with the goal of reducing poverty.[6]
In 2018,she focused on improving enrollment and program rankings through the establishment of a new strategy at University of Missouri. During her time there she was appointed Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost.[4]
Ramchand,L.,&Susmel,R. (1998). Volatility and cross correlation across major stock markets. Journal of Empirical Finance,5(4),397–416. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0927-5398(98)00003-6[7]
Ramchand,L.,&Susmel,R. (1998). Variances and covariances of international stock returns:The international capital asset pricing model revisited. Journal of International Financial Markets,Institutions and Money,8(1),39–57. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1042-4431(98)00023-7[8]
Ramchand,L.,&Sethapakdi,P. (2000). Changes in systematic risk following global equity issuance. Journal of Banking &Finance,24(9),1491–1514. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0378-4266(99)00094-1
Chaplinsky,S.,&Ramchand,L. (2000). The Impact of Global Equity Offerings. The Journal of Finance,55(6),2767–2789. https://doi.org/10.1111/0022-1082.00306
Chaplinsky,S.,&Ramchand,L. (2004). The Impact of SEC Rule 144A on Corporate Debt Issuance by International Firms. The Journal of Business,77(4),1073–1098. https://doi.org/10.1086/422441
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