Professor

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 Nalin Kulatilaka is a Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

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n born American

United States

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 academic and researcher

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. The Wing Tat Lee Family Professor of Management as well as Professor of Finance in the School of Management

Boston University School of Management

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 at Boston University

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. Currently Prof Kulatilaka is a co-Director of the Clean Energy and Environmental Sustainability Initiative and serves as the research director of Boston University Institute for Leading in a Dynamic Economy. He has also held the Bertil Danielsson Professorship at the Stockholm School of Economics

Stockholm School of Economics

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 and Göteborg University and the Tamkang Chair at the Tamkang University

Tamkang University

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.

Educated at the prestigious Royal College Colombo

Royal College Colombo

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, he went on to gain his BSc

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 from the Imperial College London

Imperial College London

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, SM

Master of Science

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 from Harvard University

Harvard University

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 and a PhD

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 from the MIT Sloan School of Management

MIT Sloan School of Management

The MIT Sloan School of Management is the business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts....

. Prof Kulatilaka received the Association for Investment Management and Research's Graham and Dodd Award

He is the co-founder of Glaze Creek Partners LLC and FirstFuel Software Inc.