Professor Damodaran holds the Kerschner Family Chair in Finance Education and is Professor of Finance at New York University Stern School of Business. He received a B.A. in Accounting from Madras University and a M.S. in Management from the Indian Institute of Management. He earned an M.B.A. (1981) and then Ph.D. (1985), both in Finance, from the University of California, Los Angeles.

His contributions to the field of Finance have been recognized many times over. He has been the recipient of Giblin, Glucksman, and Heyman Fellowships, a David Margolis Teaching Excellence Fellowship, and the Richard L. Rosenthal Award for Innovation in Investment Management and Corporate Finance. His student accolades are no less impressive: he has been voted “Professor of the Year” by the graduating M.B.A. class five times during his career at NYU.

In addition to myriad publications in academic journals, Professor Damodaran is the author of several highly-regarded and widely-used academic texts on Valuation, Corporate Finance, and Investment Management. He is also recognised as a global expert in valuation and is  called upon regularly by the world media to provide his expert views on global company projections.

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TRIUM Academic Director, LSE London

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Robert Falkner is Reader (Associate Professor) in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Robert holds degrees in politics and economics from Munich University in Germany and a doctorate in international relations from Oxford University. He is an associate of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at LSE and an associate fellow of Chatham House, the London-based international affairs think tank.

Robert has undertaken consultancy and advisory work for private and public sector organizations and has taught on executive education programs for many years, including for TRIUM, the World Economic Forum, Duke Corporate Education and the British and Dutch governments.

Oliver Gottschalg is an Associate Professor in the Strategy Department at HEC Paris and the HEC Academic Dean of the TRIUM Global Executive MBA. He directs the HEC Private Equity Observatory and teaches courses on PE strategies and management buyouts.

Oliver Gottschalg is Head of Research at Peracs Ltd., a specialized advisory firm providing advanced private equity fund due diligence and benchmarking services. He repeatedly served as advisor to policy makers at the national and European level in the context of the ongoing debate about a possible need for regulation of the Private Equity industry.

He graduated from the University of Karlsruhe and holds a Wirtschaftsingenieur Diploma, an MBA from Georgia State University and an MSc and PhD degree from INSEAD.