Prof. Ravi Jain is a Visiting Faculty in Finance at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and the Indian School of Business.  He also teaches regularly in executive programs for UC Berkeley and UCLA. He has previously taught at the University of Southern California, Temple University, and Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business, and in executive programs for Accenture, Aditya Birla Group, Citibank India, Citibank Singapore, Indian School of Business, LIC, McKinsey, NTPC, NUS Business School, Oberoi Group, the Risk Management Institute at NUS, Standard Chartered Bank, UBS Global Asset Management, and UBS Wealth Management. He has served as the Academic Director of the NUS MSc (Management) and CEMS Master’s in International Management (MIM) programmes and as a consultant on international financial markets for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) in Geneva.

Prof. Jain is a recipient of several teaching awards at NUS including the university’s Annual Teaching Excellence Award, the business school’s Outstanding Educator Award, and the MBA Program’s Best Lecturer Award.  He is a co-author (with Zvi Bodie, Alex Kane, and Alan J. Marcus) of Investments Asia Global Edition (published by McGraw Hill), a textbook on investments and portfolio management that is widely used in the top Asian business schools. He has published papers in academic journals on topics such as dividend policy, ownership structure, closed-end fund discounts, market microstructure, reverse takeovers, and direct share purchases.  He has a PhD in Finance from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).