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Vinay Nair


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Ph.D., Financial Economics, Stern School of Business, New York University

Undergraduate, Indian Institute of Technology

Dr. Vinay Nair is the founding partner of Ada Investment Management, an investment management company based in New York and Mumbai.

He is the author of Investing in Change (Oxford University Press), a book on sustainable and responsible investing. He is also an adjunct associate professor of finance at the Columbia Graduate School of Business, and a senior fellow at the Wharton Financial Institutions Center.

Prior to founding Ada, Dr. Nair was the Research Director and Portfolio Manager at Old Lane (Citi Alternative Investments) where he managed a portfolio based on research developments in corporate finance and asset pricing. Prior to becoming a portfolio manager, Dr. Nair was an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Wharton School where he developed a course on private equity and acquisitions for MBA students. He continues to teach a course on private equity as a visiting professor at the Indian School of Business.

Dr. Nair has published in leading finance journals on topics related to corporate governance, corporate finance and asset pricing. He has been an invited speaker on sustainability and investments at universities and conferences worldwide, and made a keynote address at the 2010 United Nations PRI (Principles for Responsible Investing) Conference on “Mainstreaming Responsible Investment.”

Dr. Nair earned his Ph.D. in Financial Economics from the Stern School of Business at New York University with an award for the best thesis. His undergraduate studies were at the Indian Institute of Technology, where he was awarded the Governor's Gold Medal.