Short Bio
Akash
Deep is Senior Lecturer in Public Policy specializing in
finance at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of
Government, and co-chair of the Indian Administrative
Service Executive Education program. His expertise lies in
financial risk management and derivatives, infrastructure
finance, and the management and regulation of banks,
financial institutions, and pension funds. His research has
focused on hedging price and currency risk using derivative
securities, the design of privatization and project
financing structures, and risk management at banks.
Professor Deep has provided advice on bank restructuring,
infrastructure financing, capital markets reform and
pension funds to various governments and firms around the
world, and his work has been cited in journals and
international publications such as the Financial Times and
the Boston Globe. He has worked in the financial
institutions and infrastructure section of the Bank for
International Settlements, and served as consultant and
expert for the World Bank, the United Nations and the
Latin-American Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee. At
Harvard, he teaches financial investments, risk management
and infrastructure finance in the degree and executive
programs. He has also led executive development programs at
the National University of Singapore, Goldman Sachs, the
World Bank, EBRD and the Inter-American Development Bank,
amongst others.
Certified Financial Risk Manager by the Global
Association of Risk Professionals, Akash Deep holds a PhD
in economics and MA in operations research from Yale
University, and a bachelor’s degree from the Indian
Institute of Technology.
Education
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Doctor of
Philosophy (Finance), Yale University, 1998
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Master of Arts
(Operations Research), Yale University, 1993
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Bachelor of
Technology (Mechanical Engineering), Indian Institute of
Technology, New Delhi, 1991
