Indian scholar on exchange at ICMA Centre

The ICMA Cente, Henley Business School, is proud to welcome visiting academic, and returning alumni, Assistant Professor Manohar Lal, of the ITM Institute of Financial Markets, Mumbai, India, who will be undertaking research at Reading from 7 March – 25 March 2012.

Assistant Professor Lal completed a B.Sc. in Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry in 1999, M.Sc. in Statistics in 2002 form Panjab University Chandigarh, India, an MBA (Finance) in 2005 from Indian Institute of Finance, Delhi, India and in 2007 received a scholarship from ITM Institute of Financial Markets in 2007 to study a M.Sc. International Securities, Investment and Banking from the ICMA Centre.

Assistant Professor Lal is the successful recipient of the UK India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI), which is an initiative jointly funded by the UK and Indian governments and promotes staff exchanges between Higher Education institutions across India and the UK to share and deliver best practices on curriculum and pedagogy to learn from each other’s systems.

Under the exchange programme, Assistant Professor Lal will be learning the best practices on curriculum and pedagogy in the area of Quantitative Finance and Financial Engineering.

Published	8 March 2012
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