Tarun Ramadorai is Professor of Financial Economics at Imperial College London. He has a broad range of research interests in the areas of household finance, asset pricing, and international finance. He is greatly interested in finance and economics issues in emerging markets, with a particular focus on India.
He has published on these topics in a number of scholarly journals in finance and economics including American Economic Review: Insights, the Review of Economic Studies, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, and the Review of Financial Studies.
Tarun is a Research Fellow of CEPR, an Associate Editor of the Review of Financial Studies and Management Science, a Senior Academic Fellow of the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economics Research (ABFER), and a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER). He has served in a range of policy roles in addition to his academic work, including Economic Adviser to the European Securities and Markets Authority, Visiting Scholar at the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India, and Chairman of the Inter-Regulatory Committee on Household Finance constituted by the Reserve Bank of India.
Tarun has a BA in Mathematics and Economics from Williams College, an MPhil in Economics from the University of Cambridge, and a PhD in Business Economics from Harvard University. Prior to his role at Imperial, Tarun spent over a decade at the University of Oxford.