Rajnish Mehra
Rajnish Mehra (Hindi: रजनीश मेहरा) (born January 15, 1950) is an Indian American financial economist. He currently holds the E.N. Basha Arizona Heritage Endowed Chair at the Arizona State University and is a Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Education Mehra received his doctorate in Industrial Administration from Carnegie Mellon University (1978), a M.S. in Computer Science from Rice University (1974), a B.Tech in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (1972). He spent a year studying Mathematics at St. Stephen's College, Delhi University (1966–67). Career In 1976, he was appointed assistant professor at the School of Business, Queen's University in Kingston, Canada. He subsequently moved to the Columbia Business School in 1977, and in 1985 to the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he taught until 2010. He was department Chair from 2001-04. From 2012-2016 he held the Deutsche Bank Chair at the University of Luxembourg. His visiting appointments include MIT Sloan School of Management (1987–89 and 2004-5), The University of Chicago Booth School of Business (1995-2006) and non-resident senior fellow at the National Council of Applied Economic Research, New Delhi (2016–present). He has been a consultant to the Fixed Income Group