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Raj Varma

Professor of Finance

Office: 308 Purnell Hall
Phone: (302) 831-1786
Fax: (302) 831-3061

E-mail: varmar@lerner.udel.edu

Dr. Raj Varma is Professor of Finance at the University of Delaware. Dr. Varma received his Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University. He has also served as a Visiting Associate Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Professor Varma teaches corporate finance at various levels in the undergraduate, graduate and executive education programs at the University of Delaware. Dr. Varma has been the recipient of excellence-in-teaching awards and honors nine times at the University of Delaware and has also been recognized for exemplary performance as a professor at the University of Delaware.

Professor Varma’s research interests include raising capital, financial institutions, and corporate governance and control. Dr. Varma has published numerous articles in several leading finance journals including the Journal of Financial Economics. Dr. Varma is the lead contributor for the University of Delaware’s rank among all institutes worldwide with regard to the weighted number of pages published by an institute’s faculty in the ‘Top 3’ journals in finance during the period 1990 to 2001. Dr. Varma is also ranked in the list of ‘Top 1000’ faculty worldwide with regard to the weighted number of pages published in 16 core finance journals during the period 1990 to 2001.

Professor Varma has assisted with expert opinion testimony on a number of occasions for lawsuits in the areas of corporate governance and control and his articles in these and other areas have been cited frequently in various academic and popular publications. Dr.Varma’s research findings have been covered by a variety of media, including in the print media, the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Forbes, Christian Science Monitor, Accounting Today, CFA Digest, and CFO, the Magazine for Senior Financial Executives; and in the electronic media Reuters, Business Wire, CFO.com, Dow Jones Newswires and Associated Press Online.