Dipesh Bhattarai
Department:
Finance
Biography
Dipesh Bhattarai joined the doctoral finance program in August 2019. His research interests center around corporate governance, particularly shareholder activism and the board of directors. His working papers have been presented at conferences such as the Financial Intermediation Research Society, Drexel Corporate Governance Conference, European Corporate Governance Institute Corporate Governance Symposium, Eastern Finance Association, Financial Management Association and Southern Finance Association. Additionally, one of Bhattarai’s working papers was featured in the Columbia Law School Blue Sky Blog. He is also interested in the applications of machine learning and natural language processing in corporate governance research. Bhattarai received an MBA from Mississippi State University and a B.B.A. with specialization in banking and finance from Pokhara University, Nepal.