Dr. Latha Chari is a Doctorate in Finance from BITS Pilani, Post Graduate in Commerce and a FCMA (Fellow Member of the Institute for Cost Accountants of India). She has an experience of about two decades equally divided between academia and industry. She started her academic career as a Fellow with IILM, Lodhi Road, New Delhi. Before joining NISM, Dr. Chari has worked with Institute for Technology and Management and ITM Institute of Financial Markets for more than a decade. She joined ITM as lecturer and grew up the hierarchy to become the Deputy Director, heading ITM Institute of Financial Markets. During her academic tenure she has published papers in various national and international journals and has conducted MDPs in the areas of financial asset valuation, strategic cost management, trading and operations in equity markets, performance evaluation of mutual funds and the like. Dr. Chari’s areas of research interests include strategic cost management, corporate valuations, shareholder value enhancement and similar studies. She has special interests in establishing finance labs and in design, development and delivery of lab based courses in the areas of banking and financial markets.

Monika Halan is a trusted personal finance writer, speaker and author who helps families get their money decisions right. She is the founder of Dhan Chakra Financial Education and the best-selling author of Let’s Talk Money. She is also an Adjunct Professor at the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs, a Ministry of Corporate Affairs think tank. She is a regular speaker on financial literacy, regulation, inclusion and consumer issues in retail finance. She has a Master’s in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics and a second Master’s in Journalism Studies from College of Cardiff, University of Wales, UK. She has worked across
various media organizations in India, including Mint, The Economic Times and The Indian Express, and was Editor Outlook Money. She has run four successful TV series around personal finance in NDTV, Zee and Bloomberg India.
Monika has public policy experience as Member of the Task Force set up by the Government of India to put in place the Financial Redressal Agency, Member on the SEBI Mutual Fund Advisory Committee from 2009 to 2021, Member on the Ministry of Finance Committee on Incentives (Bose Committee), and Advisor to Swarup Committee in 2009.
She has four published academic papers in the field of household finance.
• Impact of Information Disclosure on Consumer Behavior: Case of ATI Bonds, Niyati Agrawal, Monami Dasgupta, Monika Halan, Misha Sharma, Madhu Srinivas, Dvara Research, 2021.
• Regulating consumer finance: Do disclosures matter? The case of life insurance.
Monika Halan and Renuka Sane, NIPFP Working Paper Series, 2017.
• Misled and mis-sold: financial misbehaviour by retail banks? Monika Halan and Renuka Sane, Journal of Comparative Economics, 2017.
• The case of the missing billions: estimating losses to customers due to mis-sold life insurance policies. Monika Halan, Renuka Sane, Susan Thomas, Journal of Economic Policy Reform, 2014. She was a Director on the Financial Planning Standards Board India and is a Member of the
Editor’s Guild. She is an author of the best-selling book Let’s Talk Money (Harper Collins, 2018). The Hindi translation Baat Paise Ki was released in December 2020. Her first book Seven Steps to Financial Freedom was published by Macmillan in 2005. She is based in New Delhi and was
chosen as a Yale World Fellow in 2011.

She tweets at @monikahalan

Dr. Narsimhulu Siddula is an Assistant Professor at the National Institute of Securities Markets (NISM) with more than 15 years of Teaching and Research experience. Before joining NISM, he has worked as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Finance & Accounting at ICFAI Business School (IBS), a constituent of ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education (IFHE), Deemed-to-be-University, Hyderabad, Institute of Public Enterprise (IPE), Hyderabad as an ICSSR – Doctoral (Teacher) Research Fellow, and at reputed Management Institutes and Colleges in Hyderabad.

He holds Master of Commerce (M.Com) and Master of Business Administration (MBA) in the area of Finance, and Ph.D in the area of Finance on “Commodity Derivatives: Effectiveness in Price Discovery and Risk Management” from Department of Commerce, Osmania University, Hyderabad. He has qualified UGC – NET in Management and Commerce as well. He is the recipient of Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR) - Doctoral (Teacher) Research Fellowship from Institute of Public Enterprise (IPE), Hyderabad, India (2013-15).

His areas of research interests include – Commodity Markets, Capital Markets, Asset Pricing, Corporate Finance, and Derivatives and Risk Management. He has published research papers in journals indexed in ABDC, ABS, Scopus, and others. He has presented research papers in various international and national conferences, and also participated in several workshops, conferences, and Faculty Development Programmes (FDPs).

His teaching interest lies in various subjects and areas related to Financial Reporting and Analysis, Corporate Finance, Securities Analysis and Equity Valuation, Forex Markets and International Finance, Fundamental Analysis, Commodity Markets, and Financial Risk Management. He teaches in various Full-time Academic and Executive Programmes offered at NISM. Also, takes sessions in training programmes at NISM.

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Mr.  Susanta Kumar Das is a General Manager with SEBI, presently on deputation to NISM (since 28 October 2021) in School of Corporate Governance (SCG) and School for Regulatory Studies and Supervision (SRSS).

Mr. Das brings with him a rich and varied experience of more than 2 decades, primarily in the fields of securities markets and corporate governance. He joined SEBI in 2002 and has since worked in various departments there like Surveillance, Corporation Department, Market Regulations etc. Mr. Susanta completed his Bachelors in Law (LLB) and his Masters in Finance and Control. He is also a certified Financial Risk Manager from GARP, USA. His areas of interest include surveillance, market regulation, takeovers, etc 

Shri M Krishnamoorthy, an Officer of Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) joined NISM as a Member of Faculty in September 2017.  He is currently the Programme Director for the following School for Corporate Governance (SCG) and School for Regulatory Studies & Supervision (SRSS) of NISM. These Schools are playing a pioneer role in professionalization of Corporate Governance and Capacity Building of securities market participants through Workshops, Conferences and Publication of Research Papers.

Apart from the above, Shri Krishnamoorthy is the Programme Director for the part-time Course offered by NISM –Post Graduate Certificate in Management (Data Science in Financial Markets) – PGCM (DSFM).

He is currently teaching Macroeconomics, Securities Markets Regulations, Business Ethics & Corporate Governance at NISM.  Apart from the above, he has been taking Sessions in the various training programmes being conducted by NISM for Regulators, Government officials, Market Intermediaries and Listed Companies, from India and outside.  His area of academic interests include Corporate Governance, Behavioural Finance and Macroeconomics.

Shri Krishnamoorthy has been working with SEBI for the last 17 years in different Departments of SEBI, including the Integrated Surveillance Department, Corporate Finance Department, Market Intermediaries Regulation & Supervision Department, Officer of Chairman and Bangalore Office of SEBI.

Prior to joining SEBI, Shri Krishnamoorthy was working with Ministry of Law, Justice & Company Affairs, Government of India, for nearly six years.

Shri Krishnamoorthy has participated in various domestic and international Conferences including the APRC Mobile Seminary Training Program organized by IOSCO in Hong Kong. Shri Moorthy is Bachelor of Physics from Madurai Kamaraj University, Masters in Economics from Annamalai University and Masters in Financial Services Management from Mumbai University.

Mr. Meraj Inamdar has a Master’s degree in Commerce from Marathwada University, Aurangabad, and UGC SET qualified. He is pursuing his PhD in the field of Corporate Governance and Sustainable Finance with the University of Mumbai. Mr. Inamdar is Lecturer at NISM.

Mr. Inamdar has three years of corporate experience and six years of teaching and research experience. He has started his career as finance manager at Nissan Motors India Pvt Ltd. He was a member of faculty at Institute of Cost accountant (ICAI), Aurangabad Chapter 2010-13. He was Associate editor of CSR Analyst, monthly magazine of UTI-IICM, Navi Mumbai. Before Joining NISM, Mr. Inamdar was Senior Project Associate at CSE, IIT-Bombay on various research projects related to open source learning and teaching pedagogy through Information Technology.

He has several publications and conference papers to his credit and has won the Outstanding Research Paper award at Mumbai University’s International Conference in February 2016. He has also reviewed research papers for “IIM-Bangalore Management Review” journal. He has research interest in Sustainable finance & ESG, Corporate Governance and SME Exchange.

At NISM, Mr. Inamdar teaches Statistics, using databases such as Bloomberg, Morningstar and CMIE Prowess through R and MS Excel. He plays a vital role in the NISM SMART Lab Trading sessions on Equity & Derivatives. At NISM he has successfully conducted various workshops on Equity & Derivative trading at SMART Lab for international delegates of Bangladesh, Nepal, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam & Afghanistan, Practitioners in capital markets, Government officers IAS, IES, IRS, ICLS, RBI, FDPs for faculties and for post graduate students.

Before joining NISM, he has worked with Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) for over eight years. He has worked in the Investment Management Department and the Corporation Finance Department of SEBI. His areas of expertise include Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), Infrastructure Investment Trusts (InvITs), Alternative Investment Funds (AIFs), Public Issues and Capital raising, Initial Listing and Continuous compliances, and Forensic accounting & Fraud detection.

Ritesh has participated in various national and international conferences and seminars organised by various institutions and has also been a speaker in many such conferences and seminars. He has also represented SEBI in various meetings and roundtable discussions at multilateral forums such as IOSCO, G20 GFSG, etc.

His teaching interest lies in varied subjects and areas related to Capital Markets, including Corporate Valuation, Equities, Fixed Income Securities, Alternative Investment Funds, Derivatives and Risk Management, and Portfolio Management. He teaches in various academic programmes and courses conducted by NISM.

Ritesh holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Management from IIM Lucknow and an M.Sc. in Wealth Management from the Singapore Management University. He is also an Associate member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India, and has also completed all three levels of the CFA program of the CFA Institute.

Mr. Ajay Srivastava has completed his MBA (Gold medalist) in Finance  and  PG Certificate course in Productivity Research,  In addition, he is also  a Fellow member of Institute of Company Secretaries of India (FCS), and also a licentiate member of Insurance Institute of India.

He carries with him an Industry, Capital Markets & Banking experience of 28 years  and was last associated with HDFC Bank Ltd as Senior Vice President and Head of Equity Capital Markets. He also had a wide role with various  Industry, Capital Markets & Banking organizations like India Infoline Limited (IIFL,  SBI Capital Markets Limited (SBICAPS),  Securities & Exchange Board of India (SEBI),  Jindal Drilling & Industries Ltd. (JDIL),  National Productivity Council of India (NPC).