I'm the Kester and Byrnes Professor at Columbia Business School. I attempt to bring academic research and insights to questions of interest to CFOs and securities regulators. I was raised in Mumbai, India but I have spent almost all of my adult life in the United States at several educational institutions including the University of Washington, Emory University, and Duke University. Beyond my primary passion for intersecting academic theory with practice and policy, I love travel, an obscure sport called cricket, discovering new restaurants and cooking with my family. I am particularly interested in how different societies find solutions to the common problems that afflict us all.