Ahmedabad (Gujarat) [India], August 2 (ANI/NewsVoir): Pankaj Chandra, Vice Chancellor of Ahmedabad University, announced Sankarshan Basu as the new Dean of the Amrut Mody School of Management, effective August 1, 2022. Professor Basu joins from the Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Bangalore, where he has worked for the last two decades as a Professor of Finance and Accounting. Professor Basu has completed his Honours (Statistics) from Presidency College, Calcutta, his MSc (Statistics) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, and his PhD (Statistics) from the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK. In terms of research, his areas of interest are Financial Calculus, Option Pricing, Bond and Portfolio Valuation, Applications of Quantitative Techniques to Finance, Insurance, Reinsurance, Risk Management, and Financial Markets. He has presented his work at international conferences in Thailand, the US, the UK, France, Spain, Norway, Iran, Tunisia, Morocco, the Neth