Binay Bhushan Chakrabarti is a former Professor of Finance at Indian Institute of Management Calcutta and ex- Director-in-charge of Indian Institute of Management Ranchi. He has been a member of the West Bengal Higher Education Advisory Committee set up by the Governor of West Bengal. He has worked as a member of a committee set up by Reserve Bank of India on Financial Benchmarks. He has been an Independent Director in the Boards of GRSE, WEBEL, Gontermann-Peipers, West Bengal Infrastructure Development Finance Corporation and a member of Advisory Committee of the Director General of Central Audit, Kolkata. He has also been a member of the Advisory Committee of Risk Management Institute of National University of Singapore.
His research areas include market microstructure studies of Indian commodity futures markets, role of anchor investors in Indian IPOs, performance of Indian mutual funds regarding persistence in performance, value premium, market timing and stock selection ability, and study of Indian financial system for Asian Development Bank, prediction of sickness of Indian public sector enterprises, capital structure of Indian SMEs, pension sector reforms in India, utility model of insurance for cyber risk, use of neural network techniques for the estimation of stock price volatility and prediction of financial health of an enterprise.
He has academic experience of more than 26 years. His current teaching interests include Corporate Finance, Financial Derivatives, Fixed Income Markets, Financial Risk Management, Private Equity and Venture Capital, FINTECH and Corporate Financial Strategies. Apart from teaching at IIM Calcutta, he has been a visiting professor at Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, CFVG, Vietnam, ESCP Paris, National University of Singapore, Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, IIM Ranchi, IIM Indore, IIM Udaipur, IIM Sambalpur, IIM Sirmaur, IIM Bodh Gaya, Reims Business School, Bordeaux Business School and ESC Toulouse in France.
He has undertaken consultancy and training assignments for a large number of multinational and Indian public and private sector enterprises, which include Coal India, Deutsche Bank, Standard Chartered Bank, Fidelity Investments, HSBC India, Indian banks like Axis bank, United Bank of India, Kotak Mahindra Bank, ICICI Bank, public sector oil majors in India like Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, Gas Authority of India Ltd. and Indian Oil Corporation, large manufacturing sector enterprises like Larsen and Toubro Ltd., Asian PPG, Steel Authority of India, Damodar Valley Corporation and many others. He has run a successful online Executive development programme on “Corporate Finance” in association with Macmillan India Ltd for 12 years.
He is a Mechanical Engineer from Jadavpur University, Calcutta (Gold medallist), PGDM from IIM Calcutta (Gold medallist), Cost Accountant from the Institute of Cost Accountants of India and Ph. D in Economics from Jadavpur University, Calcutta. He has earlier worked in industry for 24 years primarily in the manufacturing and financial services sector in GKW, Metal Box, Nagarjuna Group, Keventer Agro and NICCO Group as President, General Manger and in other senior positions.
