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Viral V. Acharya is the C.V. Starr Professor of Economics in the Department of Finance at New York University Stern School of Business (NYU-Stern).  He completed a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai in 1995 and a Ph.D. in Finance from NYU-Stern in 2001. Prior to joining Stern, he was a Professor of Finance at the London Business School (2001-2008).

His primary research interest is the theoretical and empirical analysis of systemic risk of the financial sector, its regulation and its genesis in government-induced distortions, an inquiry that cuts across several other strands of research – credit risk and liquidity risk, their interactions and agency-theoretic foundations, as well as their general equilibrium consequences. He is the recipient of the inaugural Banque de France – Toulouse School of Economics Junior Prize in Monetary Economics and Finance, 2011. He is the current Ph.D. coordinator in the Finance department at Stern.