Aswath Damodaran (born 24 September 1957), is a Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University (Kerschner Family Chair in Finance Education), where he teaches corporate finance and equity valuation.

Background

Damodaran is best known as the author of several widely used academic and practitioner texts on Valuation, Corporate Finance and Investment Management as well as provider of comprehensive data for valuation purposes. He has written several books on equity valuation, as well as on corporate finance and investments. He was born in Chennai, India. He holds M.B.A and Ph.D. degrees from the UCLA Anderson, along with a B.Com. in Accounting from Loyola College, Chennai and a P.G.D.M. from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. He served as visiting lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley from 1984 to 1986, and has been a professor at New York University's Stern School of Business since 1986, where he teaches corporate finance and equity valuation. Damodaran also teaches on the TRIUM Global Executive MBA Program, an alliance of NYU Stern, the London School of Economics and HEC School of Management. He also teaches the "Valuation" Open Enrollment program for Stern Executive Education. Damodaran also teaches on the "Advanced Valuation" and "Corporate Finance" online certificates at NYU Stern.

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