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Professor Ken Lobo, B. Com, MMS, MBA, DBA, is a clinical finance professor in New York based in the Pleasantville Campus. His courses in finance and business include International Financial Management, Capital Budgeting, Financial Statement Analysis, Corporate Finance, Healthcare Finance, Portfolio Theory, Options and Futures, Competitive Strategy, and Investments. He teaches in the undergraduate, graduate, and executive business programs.

Before getting started in his teaching career in 2015, he worked in corporate finance and investment banking in New York, Singapore, and Hong Kong at JP Morgan, Lehman Brothers, Standard Chartered Bank, Nomura International, and Jefferies. Prior to his career in banking, he worked for ARCO, an international energy corporation in Texas, London, and Alaska, and was responsible for long-term strategic planning as well as evaluating multi-billion-dollar investments. He was a management consultant in Chicago, CEO of the consumer electronics division of a Middle Eastern conglomerate in Dubai, and was a loan officer evaluating industrial loans at the Emirates Industrial Bank. He started his career as the cost accountant for Cadbury's India operations.

Professor Lobo has an undergraduate degree in Economics from Mumbai University followed by a master's in management studies. After working in Mumbai and Dubai, he got an MBA in finance from the Booth School at the University of Chicago. In 2021 he earned a Doctorate in Finance (DBA) at Sacred Heart University in Connecticut, where his research focused on factors influencing corporate success for firms during times of economic shocks and severe downturns.