Surendra Poddar

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Surendra Poddar

Education : CFA , FRM

Specialization : Finance

Area of Interest : Equity Research , Valuation , Portfolio Management , Financial Derivatives , Behavioral Finance , Financial Modeling

Designation : Assistant Professor

Contact: +91-33-6652 9655

Email: s.poddar@imi-k.edu.in

About Surendra Poddar

Surendra has more than 20 years of experience in academics and industry. He has worked in the corporate sector with Reckitt Benckiser and Career Launcher. He has also had a brief stint as an entrepreneur before he moved to academics.
Surendra is passionate about equity markets and has been a student and teacher of equity markets for the last 25 years.
He is actively involved in conceptualising and designing industry–academia programmes. He was instrumental in launching the PGPMI (Post Graduate Programme in Management and Insurance) with ICICI Prudential Life Insurance Co. He is also currently the Programme Director of PGCFM (Post Graduate Certificate programme in financial markets) offered jointly with NSE India.
His research and teaching interests are equity analysis and valuation, financial derivatives, behavioural finance, and financial modelling.

Journals:
  • Poddar, S (2020): Impact of COVID-19 on Indian Equity Markets – IMI Konnect – Volume 9, Issue 2, 2020.

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  • Poddar, S (2016): ERP: A Primer for Practitioners – IMI Konnect – Volume 5, Issue 2, 2016.

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Book / Book Chapters :
  • Poddar, S (2017): Book Review: Gautam Mahajan – Value Creation – Definitive Guide for Business Leaders – Global Business Review. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0972150916674777
Teaching:

PGDM:

  • Financial Management
  • Fixed Income and Equity Analysis and Valuation
  • Futures, Options, and Other Derivatives
  • Behavioural Finance
Other Activities:
  • Programme Director of PGCFM, a joint certification programme on financial markets with NSE Academy India
  • Actively involved in financial literacy programmes, shareholder activism