Latha Ramchand

Latha Ramchand is an American academic and an international and corporate finance professional expert.^[1] She is a professor of finance and has taught at the graduate level.^[1] Ramchand has taught in the MBA programs at Northwestern University, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, the University of Houston and the Indian School of Business.^[1] She teaches in the areas of corporate and international finance and risk management and leadership, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate governance, which are primarily her focus of research.^[1] Ramchand is the Chancellor and Executive Vice President of Indiana University Indianapolis (IU Indianapolis).^[2]

Latha Ramchand
Dr.
Occupations	Chancellor, Executive Vice President, Professor of Finance
Academic background
Education	University of Mumbai (BS,MS), Northwestern University (PhD)
Academic work
Discipline	International Finance
Institutions	Indiana University Indianapolis

Early life and education

Ramchand is a native of Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala but was raised in Mumbai.^[3] She attended University of Mumbai where she received her master's and bachelor's degrees in Economics.^[4] With the encouragement from a professor, she then moved to the United States of America to pursue a doctoral degree from Northwestern University.^[4][2] Prior to her move, her parents suggested she get married, and shortly after she married her husband, Ram.^[2][5]

Career

Upon graduating with her PhD in finance, she began working for a bank.^[2] From 2011 to 2018, Ramchand served as the dean of the C.T. Baer College of Business at the University of Houston.^[4] She spearheaded initiatives and programming that connected the university to its community and promoted diversity and inclusion.^[6] To support women attending business school, she launched the Working Families Agenda which provided research that organizations can use to establish equitable workplace policies.^[6] She created a program called Sustainable Urban Renewal, that connected students with entrepreneurs with the goal of reducing poverty.^[6]

In 2018, she focused on improving enrollment and program rankings through the establishment of a new strategy at University of Missouri. During her time there she was appointed Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost.^[4]

In 2024, she was appointed Chancellor and Executive Vice President of Indiana University Indianapolis (IU Indianapolis).^[2][5] Her appointment came in the midst of the separation of IU Indianapolis from Purdue University which together were once the IUPUI campus.^[2]

Selected works

• Ramchand, L., & Susmel, R. (1998). Volatility and cross correlation across major stock markets. Journal of Empirical Finance, 5(4), 397–416. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0927-5398(98)00003-6
• Ramchand, L., & Susmel, R. (1998). Variances and covariances of international stock returns: The international capital asset pricing model revisited. Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, 8(1), 39–57. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1042-4431(98)00023-7
• Ramchand, L., & Sethapakdi, P. (2000). Changes in systematic risk following global equity issuance. Journal of Banking & Finance, 24(9), 1491–1514. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0378-4266(99)00094-1
• Chaplinsky, S., & Ramchand, L. (2000). The Impact of Global Equity Offerings. The Journal of Finance, 55(6), 2767–2789. https://doi.org/10.1111/0022-1082.00306
• Chaplinsky, S., & Ramchand, L. (2004). The Impact of SEC Rule 144A on Corporate Debt Issuance by International Firms. The Journal of Business, 77(4), 1073–1098. https://doi.org/10.1086/422441