Aswath Damodaran

Dr. Aswath Damodaran has been teaching corporate finance and valuation courses at New York University since 1986. He has received the Stern School of Business Excellence in Teaching Award (awarded by the graduating class) nine times and, in 1990, was the youngest winner of the University-wide Distinguished Teaching Award.

He earned his MBA and Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles. His research interests lie in valuation, portfolio management and applied corporate finance. He has written more than a dozen books and his papers have been published in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, The Journal of Finance and the Journal of Financial Economics among others.