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Raman Uppal, PhD Professor – Speciality: Finance Phone : +44 (0)20 3009 3480 Fax : +44 (0)20 3009 3481 E-mail : [email protected] Raman Uppal is Professor of Finance at EDHEC Business School. He holds a bachelors degree in Economics (Honors) from St. Stephens College, Delhi University, and M.A., M.B.A and Ph.D. degrees from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Prior to working at Edhec Business School, he was at London Business School and the University of British Columbia. He has held visiting positions at Catholic University (Leuven), the MIT Sloan School of Management, and the London School of Economics and Political Science, and has served as Co-Director of the Financial Economics Programme of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Director of the American Finance Association, and Councillor of the Society for Financial Studies. His research focuses on optimal portfolio selection and asset allocation in dynamic environments, valuation of securities in capital markets, risk management, and exchange rates. This research has been published in The Journal of Finance, The Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Economic Theory, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of International Money and Finance, and Management Science. He is currently an associate editor of The Review of Asset Pricing Studies and The Critical Finance Review, and a member of the editorial board of Mathematics and Financial Economics. In the past, he has served as an editor of the The Review of Financial Studies and the Review of Finance, and as an associate editor of Management Science. With Piet Sercu, he is the author of the textbook, International Financial Markets and the Firm, (1995, South-Western Publishing) and of the research monograph, Exchange Rate Volatility, Trade and Capital Flows under Alternative Exchange Rate Regimes, (2000, Cambridge University Press), which received the Sanwa Monograph Award (from New York University). He has taught courses on Portfolio Choice and Asset Pricing, International Financial Markets, Multinational Financial Management, Risk Management, and Corporate Finance to students in undergraduate, masters, doctoral and executive programs. He has received awards for his teaching at The Wharton School, The University of British Columbia, and London Business School. He lives in London with his wife and daughter. When not working, he spends his time reading, thinking about the human condition, playing field hockey, and rock climbing. Raman Uppal, PhD - Professor, EDHEC Business School EDUCATION 1989 PhD Finance The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. 1988 M.B.A. The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. 1986 M.A. Finance The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. 1983 B.A. (Honors), Economics St. Stephen's College, Delhi University, India. ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 2011- Professor of Finance EDHEC Business School, London. 2009-10 Visiting Professor of Finance London School of Economics, London. 2008-09 Chair of the Finance Subject Area London Business School, London. 2002-2011 Professor of Finance London Business School, London. 2000-02 Associate Professor of Finance (with tenure) London Business School, London. 1997-00 Visiting Professor of Finance M.I.T. Sloan, Cambridge MA. 1995-00 Associate Professor (with tenure) University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 1995-96 Visiting Professor of Finance KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium (sabbatical). 1992-95 B.I. Ghert Family Foundation Junior Professor University of British Columbia. 1988-92 Assistant Professor University of British Columbia, Vancouver. OTHER APPOINTMENTS 2015-18 Editor for Review of Asset Pricing Studies. 2014- Associate Editor for Financial Management. 2 Raman Uppal, PhD - Professor, EDHEC Business School 2014- Advisory Editor for Studies in Economics and Finance. 2013- Advisory board member of Spaengler IQAM Invest Research Center (Vienna). 2013- Associate Editor for Management Science. 2012- Advisory board member of the journal International Review of Financial Analysis. 2012-15 Outside councilor for the Society of Financial Studies. 2012-13 Jury member for the 2013 Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics. 2011-14 Director of American Finance Association. 2010- Associate Editor of The Critical Finance Review. 2010- Associate Editor of Review of Asset Pricing Studies. 2010- Editorial Board member of Mathematics and Financial Economics. 2008-2011 Editor for The Journal of Banking and Finance. 2006-09 Editor for The Review of Financial Studies. 2005-10 Advisory Editor for The Review of Finance. 2007-09 Member of the European Finance Association Executive Committee. 2006-08 Member of the International Scientific Council for the Swiss National Center of Competence in Financial Research (NCCR-FinRisk). 2005-06 Member of the Scientific Council for the International Center for Financial Asset Management and Engineering (FAME). 2005 Member of the American Finance Association's Nominating Committee. 2003-05 Co-Editor of The Review of Finance. 2002-05 Co-Director of the Financial Economics Programme of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London. 2002- Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London. 3 Raman Uppal, PhD - Professor, EDHEC Business School PUBLICATIONS BOOKS Sercu, P. and R. Uppal, 2000, “Exchange Rate Volatility, Trade and Capital Flows under Alternative Exchange Rate Regimes”, Cambridge University Press. Received the 1995 Sanwa Monograph Award. Sercu, P. and R. Uppal, 1995, “International Financial Markets and the Firm”, South-Western Publishing, Cincinnati, Ohio. REFEREED JOURNALS Buss, A., B. Dumas, R. Uppal, and G. Vilkov, 2016, “The Intended and Unintended Consequences of Financial-Market Regulations: A General Equilibrium Analysis. ” Journal of Monetary Economics 81 (August), 25-43. DeMiguel, V., F.J. Nogales, and R. Uppal, 2014, “Stock Return Serial Dependence and Out-of- Sample Portfolio Performance. ” The Review of Financial Studies 27.4, 1031-1073. Bhamra, H. and R. Uppal, 2014, “Asset Prices with Heterogeneity in Preferences and Beliefs.” The Review of Financial Studies 27.2, 519-580. DeMiguel, V., Y. Plyakha, R. Uppal, and G. Vilkov, 2013, “Improving Portfolio Selection Using Option-Implied Volatility and Skewness.” Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 48.6. Boyle, P., L. Garlappi, R. Uppal and T. Wang, 2012, “Keynes Meets Markowitz: The Tradeo Between Familiarity and Diversification.”, Management Science 58.2, 253-272. Bhamra, H. and R. Uppal, 2009, “The Effect of Improved Risk Sharing on Stock-Market Return Volatility When Agents Differ in Risk Aversion”, The Review of Financial Studies 22.6, 2303-2330. DeMiguel, V., L. Garlappi and R. Uppal, 2009, “Optimal versus Naive Diversification: How Inecient is the 1=N Portfolio Strategy?” The Review of Financial Studies 22.5, 1915-1953. Awarded the Prize for the Best Paper presented at the conferences of INQUIRE-UK in 2005. DeMiguel, V., L. Garlappi, J. Nogales and R. Uppal, 2009, “A Generalized Approach to Portfolio Optimization: Improving Performance By Constraining Portfolio Norms,” Management Science 55.5, 798-812. Dumas, B., A. Kurshev and R. Uppal, 2009, ‘Equilibrium Portfolio Strategies in the Presence of Sentiment Risk and Excess Volatility,” The Journal of Finance 64.2, 579-629. Kogan, L., I. Makarov and R. Uppal, 2007, “The Equity Risk Premium and the Riskfree Rate in an Economy with Borrowing Constraints,” Mathematics and Financial Economics 1.1, 1{19. Lead article. Garlappi, L., Uppal, R. and T. Wang, 2007, “Portfolio Selection with Parameter and Model Uncertainty: A Multi-Prior Approach,” Review of Financial Studies 20.1, 41-81. Awarded the Prize for the Best Paper presented at the conferences of INQUIRE-UK in 2003. Bhamra, H. and R. Uppal, 2006, “The Effect of Risk Aversion and Intertemporal Substitution on Dynamic Consumption and Portfolio Rules with Recursive Utility,” Journal of Economic Dynamics 4 Raman Uppal, PhD - Professor, EDHEC Business School and Control 30.6, 967-991. DeMiguel, Angel-Victor and R. Uppal, 2005, “Portfolio Investment with the Exact Tax Basis via Nonlinear Programming,” Management Science 51.2, 277-290. Das, S. and R. Uppal, 2004, “Systemic Risk and International Portfolio Choice,” Journal of Finance 59.6, 2809-2834. Awarded the Prize for the Best Paper presented at the conferences of INQUIRE-UK in 2002. Nominated for the 2005 Smith Breeden Prize for best paper published in the Journal of Finance. Apte, P., Sercu, P. and R. Uppal, 2004, “The Exchange Rate and Purchasing Power Parity: Extending the Theory and Tests,” Journal of International Money and Finance, 23.4, 553-571. Lead article. Uppal, R., and T. Wang, 2003, “Model Misspecification and Underdiversification,” Journal of Finance 58.6, 2465-2486. Nominated for the 2004 Smith Breeden Prize for best paper published in the Journal of Finance. Sercu, P. and R. Uppal, 2003, “Exchange Rate Volatility and International Trade in a General Equilibrium Economy,” European Economic Review 47, 429-441. Dumas, B. and R. Uppal, 2001, “Global Diversification, Growth and Welfare with Imperfect Markets for Goods,” The Review of Financial Studies 14.1, 277-305. Received the Best Paper in Finance Award for 2003 from the Europlace Institute of Finance (Institut Europlace de Finance). Dumas, B., R. Uppal and T. Wang, 2000, “Eficient Intertemporal Allocations with Recursive Utility,” Journal of Economic Theory 93.2, 240-259. Hollifield, B., and R. Uppal, 1997, “An Examination