Prof. G. Sethu
Profile
Prof. G. Sethu holds a B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, M.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from IIT, Chennai and a Doctorate in Management from Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Ahmedabad.
He has over twenty-eight years of experience in administration, research, consultancy and teaching. He is a professor at the Indian Institute of Capital Markets. He has served as a member of Indian Administrative Service and was a faculty member in finance at XLRI, Jamshedpur for five years.
At XLRI he taught several courses in finance (corporate finance, management control, mergers and acquisitions) in the MBA course. He was also involved in executive teaching and administration besides being the coordinator of Centre for Rural Management. He was a member of DPEP evaluation team set up by the Ministry of HRD. He joined the UTI Institute of Capital Markets as a professor in 1996 and was the dean during 1997-2004.
He is a visiting faculty at IIM, Ahmedabad and IIM, Indore. He has been a visiting faculty member at IIM, Kozhikode, T. A. Pai Management Institute, IIT, Mumbai, Symbiosis Institute of Business Management and several other institutes. He has been a guest faculty member in the executive education programmes at IIM, Bangalore, National Police Academy, National Insurance Academy, Sate Bank of India, Lal Bahadhur Shastri National Academy of Administration, National Academy of Audit and Accounts, Jawaharlal Nehru Institute for Development Banking, and several other institutions.
He has participated in and coordinated consultancy assignments for government and foreign organizations. He is a member of a number of committees in the financial markets. He is a member on the board of directors of OTCEI Securities Limited, UTI Funds Management Limited, ABN AMRO Trustee Limited, and UTI Technology Services. He has served on the board of SBI Funds Management Limited and UTI's Asset Management Committee. He is a member of University of Mumbai's Ad-hoc Board of Studies in Banking and Finance and is an external examiner for University of Wales validated schemes of study. He is on the editorial boards of finance journals and is a reviewer for a number of journals in India and abroad. His areas of research and teaching interests are financial strategy, financial markets and fund management industry.