V. Raghunathan

V. RAGHUNATHAN (popularly, Raghu) is an academic, author, corporate executive, columnist and a hobbyist. He is currently an adjunct professor at the Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto, Canada. He was a professor of finance at Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad for nearly two decades. He was also the president of a large private bank, first Vysya Bank and then ING Vysya Bank, Bangalore. For the next fourteen years, he headed GMR Varalakshmi Foundation-a large corporate foundation-as their CEO, and also served as the director of the India campus of Schulich School of Business for five years. He has served on many boards of corporates, banks, educational institutions, hospitals, regulators and stock exchanges.

Raghu has written over 500 articles as a columnist and has one of the largest collections of old and ancient Indian padlocks in India. He is a PhD in finance from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. His previous books include: Games Indians Play (2019, revised edition); Return to Jammu (2018); The Good Indian’s Guide to Queue Jumping (2016); Beyond the Call of Duty (2015); Duryodhana (2014); Locks, Mahabharata and Mathematics (2013); Ganesha on the Dashboard (2012); The Corruption Conundrum (2010); Don’t Sprint the Marathon (2010); Stock Exchanges, Investments and Derivatives-Straight Answers to 250 Nagging Questions (2007).