Raman Kumar
R.V. and A.F. Oliver Professor of Investment Management
Department of Finance, Pamplin College of Business
Virginia Tech
Raman Kumar is the R.V. and A.F. Oliver Professor of Investment Management in the Department of Finance, Insurance and Business Law in the R.B. Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech. He received his PGDM (MBA) from Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta and his Ph.D. from University of Pittsburgh. He teaches finance and economics courses in the undergraduate, MBA, Executive MBA, and Ph.D. programs at Virginia Tech. For excellence in teaching, he has received numerous teaching awards, including the William E. Wine Award for Teaching Excellence, Virginia Tech Teaching Excellence Award, MBA Outstanding Faculty Award and the Pamplin College of Business Teaching Excellence Award. His areas of research include Asset Pricing, Derivative Securities, Financial Markets, Market Microstructure, and Empirical Research Methods in Finance. His research has been published in Finance journals such as the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Banking and Finance, and Journal of Corporate Finance. He has served as the Department Head of the Finance Department at Virginia Tech. He has also served as the Director of the Ph.D. program in Finance, and on various university, college and department committees responsible for curriculum and promotion & tenure. He has served on over 50 dissertation committees as Chair, Co-chair or member for Ph.D. students in the Departments of Finance, Accounting and Information Systems, Marketing, Management, Hospitality and Tourism Management, Economics, Building Construction, and Civil Engineering at Virginia Tech
