Vineet Virmani is an Associate Professor in the Finance & Accounting area at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, and also the current Chairperson of institute's PGP-FABM. He holds a doctorate in economics from IIMA and a degree in mechanical engineering from IIT (BHU). His research and teaching interests include pricing of derivatives and fixed income securities, risk management and volatility modeling. Most of his recent research has been published in areas related to quantification of uncertainty during Covid-19 using information from financial derivatives, and studying issues that arise in risk management at derivatives clearing corporations.
He engages actively with the industry, and during the year 2021-22, he worked at the National Stock Exchange Clearing corporation on leave from the institute. Before joining the institute in 2011, he was with Nomura Services India Limited where he worked with their model validation team as a risk quant. He has also had brief stints at the erstwhile Bank of America Continuum, Dell International Services, the Indian School of Business after his PhD, and with Tata Motors after his engineering.
