Senior Advisor
Manju Puri is the J. B. Fuqua Professor of
Finance at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. She
was earlier Associate Professor of Finance at Stanford Business
School, which she joined after earning her Ph.D in finance at
New York University and MBA from the Indian Institute of
Management, Ahmedabad.
Professor Puri is an authority in the field of empirical
corporate finance and has particular expertise in financial
intermediation. Her published work spans the areas of commercial
banks, investment banks, venture capital, entrepreneurship,
behavioral finance, and FinTech. Her research has appeared in
publications such as
American Economic Review, Journal of Finance, Journal of
Financial Economics,
and Review of Financial Studies. She has been the
recipient of the Sloan Research Fellowship as well as multiple
awards from the National Science Foundation. Her publication
record includes over 30 refereed papers in the top finance and
economic journals. Her research has won many awards including
four best paper awards at the FMA Annual Meetings, two Western
Finance Association best paper awards, an All-Star award from
Journal of Financial Economics, and three Fama-DFA
/Jenson best paper awards in the
Journal of Financial Economics.
Professor Puri serves as Editor of
Review of Financial Studies. She earlier served as
Editor of the Journal of Financial Intermediation, as
well as on the editorial boards of several journals including
Journal of Finance, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking,
Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of Financial
Research, and Journal of Financial Services Research.
Professor Puri has served as the President of the Financial
Intermediation Research Society. She has worked with multiple
regulatory authorities serving on the Financial Advisory
Roundtable, Federal Reserve Bank of New York and on the Model
Validation Council, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System. She has also served on the Bose Committee on the
commission structure of financial product distributors for the
Government of India, and on the Advisory Board of CAFRAL,
Reserve Bank of India. She currently serves on the International
Association of Deposit Insurers (IADI) Advisory Panel, Basel,
and as Senior Advisor, Center for Financial Research, Federal
Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). She is a senior academic
fellow at the Asia Bureau of Finance and Economic Research. and
a Research Associate with the National Bureau of Economic
Research (NBER).
Professor Puri teaches an elective she created on “Raising
Capital and Financial Technologies” for the MBA students at
Fuqua. She has also taught a Ph.D class on Empirical Corporate
Finance and has taught Advanced Corporate Finance, and Venture
Capital Financing at Fuqua and Stanford Business School. She has
mentored a number of Ph.D students who have been placed at the
leading schools and institutions including Board of Governors,
Columbia, Cornell, McKinsey, MIT, Purdue, and Yale
University.
http://www.duke.edu/~mpuri