Professor Shekhar joins Gonzaga after completing her Ph.D. in Finance from Wayne State University. She enjoys teaching. Her research interests include IPO underpricing, bank monitoring, capital structure, M&A and executive decision making. Acquiring her bachelor’s degree in economics from Miranda House, Delhi University, she went on to pursue an MBA in Finance from Indian School of Business, Hyderabad, and completed a term at Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth, USA.
Having worked at firms such as Deloitte and CRISIL, a Standard & Poor’s company, she has an extensive industry experience of about eight years in financial services and analytics. Her experience includes working on fintech, credit, and regulatory risk projects such as development of a post trade portfolio compliance management application, credit risk assessment framework, risk benchmarking, structured finance ratings, shortfall estimation, credit enhancement sizing, and surveillance of rated instruments. She has worked with banks, NBFCs, microfinance institutions and investment management firms both in India and US.