V Raghunathan (www.vraghunathan.com) is a former academic (professor of finance, IIM Ahmedabad), a former banker (president, ING Vysya Bank), and a former corporate CEO (managing director, GMR Industries Ltd). Currently, he is the CEO of GMR Varalakshmi Foundation and a visiting professor at the University of Bocconi, Milan, Italy.

Some of his books include Games Indians Play (Penguin, 2006), Don’t Sprint The Marathon (HarperCollins, 2010) and The Corruption Conundrum And Other Paradoxes And Dilemmas (Penguin, 2010).

Raghunathan is also a columnist of long standing, with over 450 papers and articles to his credit. He sits on numerous boards and lectures extensively in India and abroad.