Professor Raghavendra Rau

Founder and Academic Director of the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) 

MBA (IIM Bangalore), MSc, PhD (INSEAD)

Professor Rau's research interests include how investors and firms acquire and use information. He is a past president of the European Finance Association and was previously Principal at Barclays Global Investors, then the largest asset manager in the world, in San Francisco. Raghavendra Rau is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Corporate Finance, among others. 

Professor Rau is a member of the Finance subject group at Cambridge Judge Business School, which focuses on the investment and financial decisions of firms and institutions.