Dr Sandeep Rao is an Associate Professor of Finance and the Programme Chair of the MSc in Finance at the DCU Business School. He serves as the Associate Editor of the Review of Accounting and Finance, Journal of Sustainable Finance and Investments, and Journal of Risk Finance. Dr Rao is also a member of the American Finance Association (AFA), Financial Management Association (FMA) and The Indian Econometric Society (TIES).

Dr Rao’s research focuses on Corporate Finance and Sustainable Finance, with a special emphasis on Climate Change. He has contributed to top ABS-ranked journals such as the Journal of Corporate Finance, The British Journal of Management, Annals of Operations Research, Economics Letters, Energy Economics, and Research in International Business and Finance. His expertise extends to teaching Corporate Finance and Sustainable Finance at DCU Business School, and he is a sought-after guest lecturer at prestigious B-Schools, including KEDGE (France), University of Birmingham (UK-Singapore), DHBW (Germany), among others.

He is the founding Member of the International Finance Research Collaborative (iFRC), a dynamic group of finance academic networks dedicated to advancing knowledge and driving impactful research in finance. He is also an active member of international research centres such as the Sustainable Financial Innovation Centre (SFiC, UK), The Centre for Research on Economic Relations (CER, Sweden), the DCU Climate and Society, the National Centre for Family Business (NCFB), Anti-corruption Research Centre and the Ireland India Institute at DCU.