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Dr. Sandeep Rao is an Associate Professor of Finance and the Programme Chair of the MSc in Finance at DCU Business School, Dublin City University, Ireland. Dr. Rao teaches and researches in the areas of Corporate and Sustainable Finance with particular emphasis on ESG, CSR and Climate finance. He has published in top-ranked ABS4,3 journals, including the Journal of Corporate Finance, the British Journal of Management, Energy Economics, Economics Letters and Annals of Operations Research, among others. Additionally, he is the Associate Editor of ABS-ranked journals: the Review of Accounting and Finance, Journal of Sustainable Finance and Investments, and Journal of Risk Finance.

Other than being a member of several international research centres that include the Sustainable Financial Innovation Centre (SFiC, UK), The Centre for Research on Economic Relations (CER, Sweden), the DCU Climate and Society, the National Centre for Family Business (NFCB), Anti-corruption Research Centre and the Ireland India Institute at DCU, Dr. Rao is also a member of the American Finance Association (AFA), Financial Management Association (FMA) and The Indian Econometric Society (TIES). Before entering into a full-time academic career, Dr. Rao was the founder and CEO of two technology companies in India. Under his leadership, the companies provided several IT solutions, including PLM, ERP, fuel management systems and RFID technology integration into social media branding. He also was an award-winning market analyst at Thomson Reuters in the mergers and acquisitions department and was a sub-broker of the stock broking firm Motilal Oswal Securities Ltd in India.