Executive Programme in Fintech, Banking & Applied Risk Management

Prof. Prakash Singh

Programme Director & Professor,

Finance and Accounting

Prof. Prakash Singh is a B.E. in Mechanical Engineering from HBTI, Kanpur, an MBA from Lucknow University and holds a PhD from BITS, Pilani. His research interests include Performance and Regulation of Banks, Risk Management in Financial Institutions, Microfinance, and Valuation of Start-ups. His research contributions have been published in various peer-reviewed journals. He also serves as an Independent Director on the Board of NBFC-MFIs as well as on the advisory board of UP Power Corporation, PICUP, SIDBI and LMA among other organisations. He is also the Faculty Convener at SCIFI, an IIM Lucknow – SIDBI sponsored incubation centre promoting start-ups in the space of Fintech.

Prof. Vikas Srivastava

Programme Director & Professor,

Finance and Accounting

Prof. Vikas Srivastava is an MBA, PhD and a visiting Doctoral Fellow at the Helsinki School of Economics under a scholarship by the European Union. His primary research areas are Project Finance, Corporate Banking and Credit Risk Management. He has managed consulting assignments for IFC Washington and ADB Manila on sustainable lending and provided consulting and over 120 specialised training programs to RBI, large public sector banks, Centre for Banking Studies, Central Bank of Srilanka and Bangladesh Bank. He has co-authored a textbook on Project Finance published by Oxford University Press, besides having publications in several international journals and articles in financial dailies.