Latha Ramchand

Latha Ramchand is an American academic and an international and corporate finance professional expert. She is a professor of finance and has taught at the graduate level.

Early life and education Ramchand is a native of Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, but was raised in Mumbai. She attended University of Mumbai, where she received her master's and bachelor's degrees in economics. She then received her Ph.D. in finance in 1993 from Northwestern University.

Career Upon graduating with her PhD in finance, she began working for a bank. To support women attending business school, she launched the Working Families Agenda which provided research that organizations can use to establish equitable workplace policies. Her appointment came in the midst of the separation of IU Indianapolis from Purdue University which together were once the IUPUI campus.

Personal life Ramchand married her husband, Ram, prior to moving to the U.S.

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