Vineet Virmani is an Assistant Professor of the Finance & Accounting area at Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad since January 2011. He has received his degree in engineering from IIT (BHU), Varanasi and his doctorate in management from IIMA with a specialization in Economics.  After finishing his doctorate, he worked as a post-doctoral fellow first at ISB, Hyderabad and then at IIMA before leaving for industry. Before coming back to IIMA, he was with Nomura/Lehman Services, Mumbai and Bank of America Continuum. Prior to that, he was at Dell International Services, Bangalore as an econometrician. His research interests are in the areas of Derivatives Pricing, Financial Econometrics & Risk Management.