Raj Singh

Raj Singh is Professor of Finance and Vice Provost and Dean of Undergraduate Education at the University of Minnesota. He has been a member of the faculty at the University of Minnesota since 1999. From 2015-2021 he served as the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education at the Carlson School of Management. Before that he served for four years as the chair of the department of finance at the Carlson School of Management. He received a BS (Mechanical Engineering) from Kurukshetra University in 1985, an MBA in Information Systems from Baruch College at the City University of New York in 1989, an MS in Finance from Carnegie Mellon University in 1991, and a PhD in Finance also from Carnegie Mellon University in 1995. He has held previous appointments at Washington University at St. Louis (1994-1997), University of Michigan (1997-1999) and Arizona State University (2008-2009). He has published in all the top-tier journals in finance. Some of the topics he has published his research on are mergers and acquisitions, agency theory, market microstructure, initial public offerings, auction models, and municipal bonds. He has presented his research at major conferences in finance and at many prominent universities like MIT, Duke, Yale, Michigan, Michigan State, Washington, Utah, Maryland, Virginia, University of Arizona, Arizona State, Ohio State, American, Claremont, and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. 

He has taught introductory as well as advanced courses at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. Although most of his teaching is focused on corporate finance, he has also taught courses in international finance, blockchain technologies and cryptocurrencies.