Rockhurst Professor Earns Teaching Award from Harvard

Congratulations to Sudhakar Raju, Ph.D., professor of finance, for earning the top teaching award given to teaching fellows in Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Raju spent his sabbatical in 2006-07 earning a master’s degree in public administration and public policy from the Kennedy School while also serving as a teaching fellow in a graduate finance class. Members of the Kennedy student government vote on the award, and knowing that students voted on it makes it especially meaningful to Raju.

“I’m probably more proud of the award than the degree I received,” he says.

In addition to teaching graduate finance courses in the Helzberg School of Management at Rockhurst, Raju finds time to conduct consulting work for organizations such as the World Bank, Chicago Board of Trade and the United Nations Development Program. He is a certified financial risk manager, a designation conferred by the Global Association of Risk Professionals, and has been published in some of the industry’s leading publications, including the Journal of Futures Markets, Journal of Policy Modeling, Journal of Investing and World Bank research papers.