Miss Deepa Govindarajan


Visiting Fellow

E: d.govindarajan@icmacentre.ac.uk

Biography  

Deepa Govindarajan is a lecturer and Visiting Fellow at the ICMA Centre, Henley Business School, University of Reading. She teaches compliance, risk management and regulation within the Master's degree. Deepa's research interests cover corporate risk appetite, senior management arrangements and governance within financial institutions, qualitative decision-making, operational risk, the socio-political context of banking & financial regulation and the comparative study of international banking regulation. 

Deepa serves from time to time as an independent expert advisor to regulators, banks, asset managers and insurers. She facilitates Board discussions related to the definition and dissemination of risk appetite, and the risk implications of strategic choices. As a specialist in governance and risk oversight, Deepa also evaluates financial firms' governance arrangements, risk management frameworks and risk culture.


Working Papers

Govindarajan, Deepa, Corporate Risk Appetite: Ensuring Board and Senior Management Accountability for Risk (November 17, 2011). ICMA Centre Discussion Papers: 2011 Series. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1962126