Aswath Damodaran

Dr. Aswath Damodaran is the Kerschner Family Chair in Finance Education at New York University’sLeonard N. Stern School of Business in New York, where he is a professor of finance. Prior to Stern, he lectured in finance at the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Damodaran’s contributions to the field of finance have been recognized many times over. He has been the recipient of Giblin, Glucksman and Heyman Fellowships, a David Margolis Teaching Excellence Fellowship, and the Richard L. Rosenthal Award for Innovation in Investment Management and Corporate Finance. He received the Schools ofBusiness Excellence in Teaching Award in 1988 and the Distinguished Teaching award from NYU in1990, and he has been voted “Professor of the Year” by the graduating M.B.A. class five times during his career at NYU. In addition to myriad publications in academic journals, Dr. Damodaran is the author of several highly regarded and widely used academic texts on valuation, corporate finance and investment management. He currently teaches corporate finance and equity instruments and markets, and his research interests include information and prices, real estate and valuation. Dr. Damodaran received his B.A. in accounting from Madras University, his M.S. in management from the Indian Institute ofManagement, and his M.B.A. in 1981 and his Ph.D. in 1985, both in finance, from the University ofCalifornia, Los Angeles.