Professor Raghavendra Rau

Professor Rau is the Sir Evelyn de Rothschild Professor of Finance at Cambridge Judge Business School. He is the President of the Financial Management Association, a past president of the European Finance Association, and a past editor of Financial Management.

Professor Rau has held the Ambank Chair in Financial Services at the Universiti Malaya in 2023/24 and was awarded a Honorary Professorship at the University of Jordan in 2024.  He is also a founder and director of the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF).

Professor Rau serves on the editorial boards of Management Science, the Journal of Corporate Finance, and the Journal of Banking and Finance,  among others.

His research has frequently been covered by the popular press including the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Economist. He was also Principal at Barclays Global Investors, then the largest asset manager in the world, in San Francisco from 2008-2009. He has won the Ig Nobel prize in Management in 2015, a prize given for research that makes you laugh and then think about it, one of the only 2 Cambridge professors to have done so.

He is a research member of the European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) and the Cambridge Corporate Governance Network (CCGN).