Prof. Jitendra Aswani

I am an assistant professor (Finance & Accounting) at the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Udaipur and the researcher affiliated with the MIT Sloan School of Management. Before this, I worked as a post-doctoral associate at the same institute and as a corporate governance fellow (post-doctoral fellow) at Harvard University. I hold a Ph.D. in Business Administration (Finance) from the Gabelli School of Business at Fordham University, an MSc in Economics from the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research (IGIDR), and an undergraduate degree in Chemical Engineering from the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Jaipur. I also have prior industry experience working with Indian Oil Corporation (IOCL).

My research focuses on corporate finance, debt markets, sustainable finance, and behavioral economics. I have presented my work at leading economics and finance conferences and seminars, including the SFS Cavalcade (North America), Western Finance Association (WFA), American Finance Association (AFA), Securities and Exchange Commission (U.S.), Harvard Climate Finance Workshop (HBS), MIT Sustainable Initiative Seminar Series, The Econometric Society Meetings (North America, Europe, and Asia), Financial Management Association (FMA), Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), CAFRAL (RBI), Indian School of Business (ISB), and the Yale Initiative on Sustainable Finance (YISF) Annual Symposium, among others.

My research has been published in top-tier journals, such as the Review of Finance and Management Science. I have been invited to submit a paper at Review of Corporate Finance Studies (RCFS) through the SFS Cavalcade (North America) dual submission. Additionally, my work has been covered by prominent media and policy platforms, including ProMarket (Chicago Booth), Nature, Columbia Sky Law Blog, Oxford Business Law Blog, Forbes, Ideas for India, SEC Commissioner’s Speech, ECGI Blog and has been cited in U.S. court cases and SEC policy on climate disclosure rules.