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RAMA MALLADI

Associate Professor

(310) 243-3560

Biography

Dr. Rama Malladi teaches corporate finance, investments, and financial modeling classes at the College of Business Administration and Public Policy of the California State University Dominguez Hills. He has taught 26 finance and investment classes at the undergraduate, graduate, and MBA levels at ten universities in the Southern California region. Dr. Malladi received PhD in Finance from EDHEC Business School, a Grandes École in France, with Dr. Frank Fabozzi as his dissertation adviser, MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management, and Masters of Technology in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras in India. Besides, he holds a Bachelor of Technology in Electrical and Electronics Engineering with a first-class distinction.

Dr. Malladi has served in several leadership positions, including the President & Board of Governor of CFA Society Los Angeles. He earned Chartered Financial Analyst, Chartered Alternative Investments Analyst, Financial Risk Manager, and Project Management Professional designations. He is a subject matter expert in financial analytics. He has hands-on and managerial experience in this area and provided consultancy services to firms such as Starbucks, National Stock Exchange, Wachovia Securities, Toyota Financial Services, Deloitte Consulting, British Telecom, British Gas, IBM UK, Hewlett-Packard, Lockheed Martin, and Tata Consultancy Services, etc. During the last 26 years of his career spanning the USA, Europe, and Asia, he has led groups focusing on financial analytics, risk management, and alternative investments.

His research areas include asset management, financial technology, alternative investments, and risk management. Dr. Malladi has multiple publications in peer-reviewed academic journals, such as Applied Economics, Journal of Wealth Management, Review of Financial Economics, and Journal of Asset Management.