Dr Niran Subramaniam

Dr Niran Subramaniam is an Associate Fellow at Green Templeton College, University of Oxford and an Associate Professor of Financial Management and Systems at the Henley Business School. He is former member of faculty at the Saïd Business School.

Dr Subramaniam is a versatile academic, consultant and advisor with real world industry experience. He coaches executives on strategic financial and technology management in top-tier business schools in the U.K and advises clients internationally on digital transformation strategies, financial technologies, and analytics to improve organisational performance.

Dr Subramaniam’s research interests lay at the nexus of sociology, technology and finance, and his areas of expertise include strategic financial management, technology mediated management systems and artificial intelligence. His current research focuses on digitally mediated human interactions and their theoretical and practical implications to the future of work in the contemporary organisational settings.

Niran has an exemplary and proven track record of academic and executive management leadership roles in higher education, financial services, and telecommunications sectors. Niran pioneered the concept of virtual co-presence in information systems and theorised a framework for real-time digital collaboration that transforms organisational effectiveness. In practice, he led the design and delivery of several solutions, most notably an executive dashboard with analytic insights for decision making and strategic performance management for Banking Institutions.

Niran earned a BEng (Hons) in Computer and Information Engineering (London), an MBA with distinction in Finance and e-Business (UBC) and a PhD in Information Systems (Warwick). He is also a Fellow Chartered Management Accountant (FCMA, 1997), and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA, 2013).

Since 2018, Niran has been an active member of the international committee of the Chartered Association of Business Schools (CABS), which acts as a think-tank, contributing to the development of policy and research on matters concerning the international agenda for the UK business schools. Previously, he held board appointments in advisory and consultative capacity in Canada and the US, as well.