Surender Rao Komera

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT SURENDER RAO KOMERA

I work at IIM Amritsar as a faculty member in the area of Finance, Accounting, and Control. For our PG students, I teach Corporate finance and finance elective courses, including IAPM, Corporate Valuation, and Alternative Investments. Also I teach Financial Management and SAPM course in executive MBA program.Prior to joining at IIM Amritsar, I worked as a faculty member at IFMR Graduate School of Business, Krea University for about 6 years. There I have had the experience of teaching introductory finance courses like Foundations of Finance and Corporate Finance (Elsewhere they are called as FM - I & II) along with a range of finance elective courses.I also have the experience of designing and conducting Management or Executive Development Programs for corporate participants. My contribution for the same is mainly in the areas of Capital Budgeting, Working Capital Management, Cost of Capital Estimation, Business Valuation, EVA, Fixed Income Securities and so on. So far I conducted training programs for HPCL, IOCL, Barclays Plc, Gmmco Ltd, L&T Construction, SFL, Toshiba Ltd, Real Image Technologies, CAMS, Murugappa, TAFE Ltd, and so on.From Sept 2016 to Nov 2019, I actively participated in training the Grade B officers of RBI at their RB Staff College, Chennai. I taught them the abridged courses such as Financial Management, Financial Economics, and SAPM.My primary research area is Empirical Corporate Finance, focusing on corporate investment policy, capital structure choices, payout policy, dynamics of business group affiliation and corporate distress.I completed my PhD at Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR), affiliated to University of Madras, specializing in Corporate Finance (Essays on Capital Structure Choice and Corporate Bankruptcy). PGDM equivalent Ph.D. course work at IFMR, specializing in Finance.