Karan Bhanot, PhD

Quincy Lee Endowed Chair for Excellence in Real Estate Finance and Development Education

Chair and Professor, Finance

Karan Bhanot has served on the UT San Antonio faculty for nearly three decades, first joining the university in 1997. He currently serves as chair of the university's Department of Finance.

Bhanot’s research interests involve fixed income, real estate and investments. Most recently, he has focused on the role of debt covenants in credit risk, commercial mortgage-backed security design, managerial incentives and optimal capital structure. His research has appeared in several academic journals including the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of Business, the Journal of Empirical Finance and the Journal of Banking and Finance.                              

In addition to his time at UT San Antonio, Bhanot has also taught at New York University’s Stern School of Business, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of Iowa, and the Indian School of Business. He also spent time in industry as a fixed income trader and manager at Standard Chartered Bank (formerly ANZ) in Mumbai.

Bhanot earned his PhD in Finance from the University of Iowa and his MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad.