User:Surender Komera

Brief Profile
Surender Komera (Surenderrao Komera) is currently a doctoral fellow at Institute for Financial Management and Research, chennai. He graduated from Osmania University, Hyderabad in the discipline of Economics. From the same University, he received Bachelor of Education and his post-graduation in Economics (2005). Then, he moved on to University of Hyderabad, where he received his Master of Philosophy in Economics in 2006.

Professional and Student Life
He has been continuing his professional and educational life simultaneously. His professional life (part-time) started in his graduation days back in 2000 as public telephone operator. After a brief period as an operator, he continued his professional life as home-tutor. The experience, he acquired as home-tutor helped him to successfully complete his professional teacher training degree (B.Ed.) at Osmania University.

During his post-graduation at Osmania University, he got attracted to Greenpeace India activities, later he joined as a part-time employee. With Greenpeace India he delivered his duties as Awareness Campaigner. The profession as campaigner, not only earned him the handsome pocket money, but also fair idea on various environmental issues and skills in people management. In the brief period as Greenpeace India employee, he also took part in various campaigns like fund raising, whales protection, illegal commercialization of genetically modified crops and direct action campaign on few pharmaceutical firms which are illegally dumping their effluents in the nearby water bodies.

As a M.Phil student at University of Hyderabad, he received the Merit scholarship and also associated with departmental research project on "Health and Economic Development" as Research Assistant. As part of his educational requirements as M.Phil student, he studied then most controversial issue of Micro-finance Interventions. He acquired the fair knowledge of the rural credit markets and studied various micro-finance delivery mechanisms. After completing his Master of Philosophy he started his professional life on the full-time basis, which lasted very brief period, thanks to his thrust for knowledge.

Professional Life
After a span of two months as the free lancing assignments as a researcher on economic and environment issues, he joined as Research Assistant at Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. At ISB, he worked on couple of consultancy projects related to micro-finance services. Though he plunged into full-time professional life, he continued to keep constant touch with the university activities at UoH. His interest to acquire further knowledge, motivated him to pursue his Ph.D. program.

Back to Student Life
He took the admission at IFMR, Chennai in the Ph.D. program in July 2007. After successfully completing his course work in 2009, he is currently pursuing his research interests in corporate finance and product markets.