Bala Dharan Email & Phone Number

Bala Dharan is a Director at Berkeley Research Group. Dr. Dharan specializes in forensic accounting and investigations, damages analysis, finance, valuation, investment analysis, corporate governance, and auditing. He has international arbitration experience in many of the major international forums, and is named to the 2015 International Who's Who of Commercial Arbitration. Dr. Dharan has served more than 25 times as a testifying expert in litigation and arbitration matters. He has also served as a consulting expert on several dozen litigation, arbitration, and business consulting engagements. His consulting and testimony experience covers a variety of industries, such as energy, utility, technology, manufacturing, and banking.Dr. Dharan is Robert B. and Candice J. Haas Visiting Professor and Senior Lecturer in Corporate Finance Law at Harvard Law School and a Research Affiliate at MIT Sloan School of Management. Internationally known for his research, he has published widely in major accounting and finance journals, and has coauthored four textbooks on accounting, finance and corporate governance topics. He is an award winning teacher and public speaker, and has provided invited testimony three times before the U.S. Congress on accounting for complex transactions, standard setting process, and energy reserves accounting. Dr. Dharan is a Certified Public Accountant and holds ABV (Accredited in Business Valuation) and CFF (Certified in Financial Forensics) qualifications. He has a Ph.D. and an M.S. from Carnegie Mellon University; an MBA in finance from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad; and a B.Tech. in chemical engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

Listed skills include Corporate Finance, Financial Accounting, Business Valuation, International Arbitration, and 21 others.