Viswanathan Raghunathan (born 1954) is an academic, businessman, author, and columnist. He is currently director of the Schulich School of Business (York University, Toronto), India (Hyderabad Campus). Since 2013, for three consecutive years, Raghunathan has been featured in the list of top 50 thinkers in management across India and the Indian diaspora. Since 2005, he is also the CEO of GMR Varalakshmi Foundation. Earlier he was president, ING Vysya Bank (2001–2004) and managing director, GMR Industries Ltd (2007–2008),

GMR Group GMR Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate headquartered in New Delhi. The group was founded in 1978 by Grandhi Mallikarjuna Rao and comprises several companies including GMR Infrastructure, GMR Energy, GMR Airports, and GMR Enterpri ...

. He has been an

adjunct professor An adjunct professor is a type of academic appointment in higher education who does not work at the establishment full-time. The terms of this appointment and the job security of the tenure vary in different parts of the world, but the term is gen ...

at the

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, Milan, Italy, since 1990, and

Schulich School of Business The Schulich School of Business is the business school of York University located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The institution provides undergraduate and graduate degree and diploma programs in business administration, finance, accounting, bus ...

, York University, Toronto, Canada. He taught finance and accounting at IIM, Ahmedabad from 1982 to 2001, where he held various positions, including chair, of the postgraduate program. He is the author o
Irrationally Rational
(Penguin Viking, 2022)
Games Indians Play
(Revised Edition, Penguin, 2019)
Return to Jammu
(HarperCollins, 2018)
The Good Indian's Guide to Queue-jumping
(HarperCollins 2016)
Beyond the Call of Duty
(co-authored) (HarperCollins, 2015)
Duryodhana
(HarperCollins, 2014)
Locks, Mahabharata & Mathematics
(HarperCollins, 2013)
Ganesha on the Dashboard
(co-authored) (Penguin, 2012)
Don’t Sprint The Marathon
(HarperCollins, 2010)
Corruption Conundrum and Other Paradoxes and Dilemmas
(Portfolio, 2010)
Stock Exchanges, Investments and Derivatives
(co-authored) (McGraw-Hill Education (India), 2008)
Games Indians Play
(Penguin, 2006)
Strategic Corporate Finance
(co-authored) (Vision Books, 2001)
Portfolio Management
(co-authored) (Tata McGraw Hill, 1993)
Stock Exchanges, Investments and Derivatives
(Tata McGraw Hill, 1991). Raghunathan is also a columnist of long standing, especially with

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, and has authored over 500 papers and articles. He also blogs for

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The Times of India Blog
/ref> and has held a cartoon column briefly with The Financial Express in the past. A graduate of

Panjab University Panjab University (PU) is an Indian collegiate public state university located in Chandigarh. Funded through both State and Union governments, it is considered a state university. It traces its origins to the University of the Punjab in Lahor ...

, Chandigarh, Raghunathan obtained his doctorate in finance from Indian Institute of Management,

Calcutta Kolkata, also known as Calcutta (List of renamed places in India#West Bengal, its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of West Bengal. It lies on the eastern ba ...

. Raghunathan is a

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, born and brought up in

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and

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, and spent much of his early schooling in Jammu and Kashmir.

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Chairman, GMRIT Governing CouncilMember in Inventure Academy Advisory BoardColumnists in DNAHome Page of Raghunathan
* ttp://vraghunathan.com/articles.html Financial Articles published in Outlook Money, The Economic Times, Money Life, etc. {{DEFAULTSORT:Raghunathan, Viswanathan 1954 births Living people Academic staff of York University