Ms Rupali Vashisht

Rupali has taught at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels in the UK and internationally. She has served as instructor of record for quantitatively rigorous modules, including Financial Management, Investment Management, Intermediate Macroeconomics, and Business Economics, and has supported teaching in finance and economics through tutorials and assessment during her doctoral training.

Alongside formal teaching, she has contributed extensively to outreach and widening participation initiatives. For Discover Economics, an initiative of the Royal Economic Society, she designed, developed and delivered the outreach session Investment Challenge: Profit versus Planet at the Financial Laboratory, engaging school students in interactive learning on sustainable finance and investment trade-offs. Additionally, as part of the OnCampus programme, she also hosted an interactive session for visiting A-level students in the Financial Laboratory, introducing them to the Bloomberg L.P. Terminal and demonstrating how financial data is used in practice for market analysis and risk assessment. Through these activities, she has sought to make economics and finance accessible, applied, and engaging for diverse student audiences.

Rupali is a PhD Economics candidate supervised by Jose Olmo, Hector Calvo-Pardo, and Jana Sadeh at University of Southampton, UK. Her research focuses on climate finance, examining how ESG information and climate risks are reflected in financial markets, particularly in credit markets and banking.

Rupali holds an MSc in Economics from Queen Mary, University of London. She also earned an MSc in Financial Economics from the Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics and a B.A. (Honours) in Economics from the University of Delhi. 

Rupali previously worked as a Research Associate at the University of Delhi on a policy-driven project funded by the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (Government of India) on financial distress and bankruptcies in the Indian corporate sector, where she developed a predictive model to assess firms’ financial health and help lenders anticipate financial distress.

Rupali has two years of full-time undergraduate teaching experience across multiple finance and economics modules. During her PhD, she also worked as a Teaching Assistant at Imperial College Business School and the University of Southampton.