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Ramana Nanda is a Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance and Associate Dean of Enterprise at Imperial Business School. His research examines the financing frictions that new ventures face, aiming to help entrepreneurs with fundraising while shedding light on financial intermediaries and corporate R&D for policymakers to enhance the odds of selecting and commercializing promising ideas and technologies in the economy. Nanda was a full-time faculty member at Harvard Business School from 2007 to 2020, serving as the Sarofim-Rock Professor and co-director of the Private Capital Project. He holds a PhD from MIT's Sloan School of Management along with a BA and MA in Economics from Trinity College, Cambridge, U.K. He has received several accolades, including the 2020 ERC Consolidator Grant and the 2015 Kauffman Prize Medal, presented annually to a scholar under 40 for significant contributions to the literature on entrepreneurship. Before pursuing his PhD, he worked at Oliver Wyman & Company in London and New York, primarily advising clients in global capital markets and small-business banking. Nanda continues to advise startup ventures on financing strategies and collaborates with philanthropists and investors seeking 'deep tech' entrepreneurial solutions to global challenges.
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