Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Angel

Madhav Rajan is Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University.

In that role, he is responsible for the academic oversight for the MBA program and the Robert K. Jaedicke Accounting Professor of Law (by courtesy) at Stanford Law School.

From 2002 to 2010, he served as the area coordinator for Accounting at Stanford GSB.

In 1990, his dissertation won the Alexander Henderson Award for Excellence in Economic Theory.

After completing his doctoral studies, Madhav joined the faculty of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and was promoted to the rank of tenured Associate Professor in 1996, and Professor in 2000.

He is a member of the Management Accounting section of the American Accounting Association and has twice been a plenary speaker at the AAA Management Accounting Conference.

Madhav has taught courses in managerial accounting at the undergraduate, MBA, and executive MBA levels.

Madhav has won several teaching awards at Wharton and Stanford, including the David W. Hauck Award, the highest undergraduate teaching honor at Wharton.

At Stanford, Madhav participates in a variety of executive education initiatives, including teaching in the flagship Stanford Executive Program.

Rajan has also coauthored the first edition of Fundamentals of Cost Accounting, published by McGraw Hill-Irwin in 2005.

Madhav is a Director of iShares, Inc. and a Trustee of the iShares Trust.

Mr. Rajan received his undergraduate degree in Commerce from the University of Madras, India, and his MS in Accounting, MBA, and PhD degrees from the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at Carnegie Mellon University.