Joseph Cherian

Education Qualifications

• Ph.D., Finance, Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University, USA, 1993
• M.S., Finance, Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University, USA, 1992
• B.S., Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, 1986

Research Interest

• Quantitative Models For Fund Management
• Derivatives And Risk Management
• Liquidity Risk In Financial Markets
• Asset Pricing Theory

Academic Experience

• Director, CAMRI, National University of Singapore, 2009 - current
• Practice Professor of Finance, National University of Singapore, 2009 - current
• Advisory Council Member, Cornell University - The Johnson School, 2009 - current
• Executive-in-Residence, Cornell University - The Johnson School, 2008 - 2009
• Review Board, Research Foundation of the CFA Institute, 2000 - 2005
• Associate Professor of Finance, Boston University - School of Management (on leave 2000/2001), 1999 - 2001
• Visiting Professor of Finance, University of Amsterdam and Tinbergen Institute - Summers, 1997 - 2000
• Assistant Professor of Finance, Boston University - School of Management, 1993 - 1999
• Visiting Lecturer of Finance, Cornell University - The Johnson School, 1992 - 1993

Corporate Experience

• Affiliated Researcher, Risk Management Institute, National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore, 2009 - current
• Scientific Advisory Board, Orissa Group Inc., 2008 - current
• Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer, Quantitative Strategies Group, Credit Suisse (Alternative Investments), 2004 - 2008
• Managing Director, Quantitative Equity Research, Bank of America Capital Management, 2000 - 2004
• Product Advisory Board, netDecide Corp., 2001 - 2003
• Scientific Advisory Board, SKG Inc., 2000 - 2003
• Senior Financial Consultant, Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), India, 1995
• Financial Consultant, BTS Software, 1994
• Senior Financial Consultant, Ernst & Young, 1994
• Staff Electrical Engineer & Operating Comm Member, Goodyear International, 1986 - 1989

Courses

• Consulting Practicum, Consulting Practicum
• BMA5307, Options and Futures
• FIN4112K, Seminars in Finance: Applied Portfolio Management

Membership & Professional Activities

• Principal Co-organizer, Mathematical Finance Day at Boston University - 3/31/96, 4/26/98, and 4/25/99
• Principal Co-organizer (with Zvi Bodie), FINANCE 2000 - CEO and Nobel Laureates Lecture Forum
• Ph.D Field Advisor (Finance), Boston University Department of Economics, January 1998 - August 2000
• Keynote Speaker, Various Institutional Investor Conferences, Credit Suisse Annual Asian Investment Conference (HK), GAIM Asia (HK), Asset Allocation Summit (HK), and internal Private Banking and Institutional Investor Seminars, 2000 - 2008
• Invited Speaker and Panelist, Capital Markets Seminar organized by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) and Reserve Bank of India (RBI), 1995
• Faculty Coordinator, Financial Management (MBA Core, Boston University), May 1994 - August 1995
• Faculty Advisor, Humphrey Fellowship Program, Boston University, May 1995 - August 2000
• Faculty Advisor, Boston University Investment Club, September 1993 - December 1995
• Co-organizer (with Robert Jarrow, Stuart Turnbull and Tom Coleman), Annual Derivatives Securities,1998 - 2001
• Advisory Board, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Researcher-Entrepreneurs'' Program, Boston University
• Referee/Discussant, Journal of Economic Theory; Journal of Finance; Review of Derivatives Research; Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control; Mathematics of Operations Research; Physica A; Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis;Journal of Financial Intermediation; The Financial Review; China Economic Review; The Journal of Risk; Decision Sciences Institute Meeting, 1994; American Finance Association Annual Meeting, 2000; NBER Conference on Risk Assessment and Management, 1995

Societal Impact

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