Prof Madhu Veeraraghavan is the Pro Vice Chancellor of [Management, Law, Humanities & Social Sciences], MAHE Manipal and MAHE Bangalore Campus from April 01, 2023. He also holds the position of TA Pai Chair Professor of Finance at T A Pai Management Institute (TAPMI) and Dr. TMA Pai Endowment Chair in Management Research. He held the position of Director of TAPMI from 2017 to 2023.

Prof Madhu Veeraraghavan holds an MBA in Finance and Investments and a PhD in Finance. With over 20 years of experience in world class business schools, he believes that business schools should work for outcomes that support the Mission of the School.

Professor Veeraraghavan’ s research interests are in the areas of Corporate Finance, Behavioural Finance and the interplay between Auditing and Finance. He is a referee for several leading accounting and finance journals. Professor Veeraraghavan has published over 50 papers in international journals and has presented his work in top conferences in finance and accounting.

His work has appeared in elite journals such as Management Science, The Accounting Review, Journal of Financial Economics, Contemporary Accounting Research, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Management, Journal of Business Ethics and AUDITING: A Journal of Practice and Theory.

He is also revising a manuscript for The Review of Accounting Studies and preparing manuscripts for submissions to several top tier journals.

Professor Veeraraghavan has obtained research funding of over AUD 500,000 from the Australian Research Council Discovery Grants Scheme and the Australian Research Council Linkage Grants Scheme.
Professor Veeraraghavan is an Editor of the Journal of Contemporary Accounting and Economics and serves on the Editorial Advisory and Review Board of Accounting Theory and Practice.

Professor Veeraraghavan has won many awards for his work in both National and International Conferences.
Recently, he has been ranked 223 (Breadth 12, meaning the ranking is based on publications in the top accounting journals in the last 12 years) in the World in the Brigham University 2024 Accounting Research Rankings for his contributions to accounting research.

He is also a recipient of the AICTE [Dr Pritam Singh Best Teacher Award]- 2021, awarded by the Hon’ble Minister of Education, Government of India.

The Social Science Research Network (SSRN) has announced that Prof Veeraraghavan is ranked in the top ten per cent of the authors around the world.

Professor V eeraraghavan is a Trustee of MITRAz Foundation, an NGO that provides free skill development courses to participants from rural backgrounds with the sole aim of empowering young lives.