Rafiq Dossani is a consulting professor and senior research scholar at the Asia/Pacific Research Center, responsible for developing and directing the South Asia Initiative. His research interests include financial, technology, and energy-sector reform in India. He is currently undertaking a project on the upgrade of information technology in Indian start-ups, and on the institutional phasing-in of power-sector reform in Andhra Pradesh. He serves as an advisor to India's Securities and Exchange Board in the area of venture-capital reform. Dr. Dossani earlier worked for the Robert Fleming Investment Banking group, first as CEO of its India operations and later as head of its San Francisco operations. He has also been the chairman and CEO of a stock broking firm on the OCTEI exchange in India, the deputy editor of the Business India Weekly, and a professor of finance at Pennsylvania State University. He holds a B.A. in economics from St. Stephen's College, New Delhi, India; an M.B.A. from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, India; and a Ph.D. in finance from Northwestern University.