Prasanna Tantri is an Associate Professor of Finance and the Executive Director of the Centre for Analytical Finance at the Indian School of Business (ISB). He also serves as an Independent Director and Chair of the Audit and Risk Management Committees at Power Finance Corporation. His research interests include banking, macro-finance, financial inclusion, financial contagion, and regulation. He has published his research in top journals such as the Review of Financial Studies, The Journal of Accounting and Economics, The Review of Finance, The Journal of Accounting Research, Management Science, The Journal of Financial And Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Development Economics, and others. 

He is currently heading the group entrusted by the government of Telangana with the task of drafting a vision document for the state of Telangana. He was a part of the Expert Working Group on Investor Protection at the National Stock Exchange and a Member of the Technical Group on the Social Stock Exchange, constituted by the Securities and Exchange Board of India. He was also appointed as a Member of the Technical Advisory Committee for the Evaluation of Schemes for the Promotion of Digital Payments in India, under the Development Monitoring & Evaluation Office (DMEO), NITI Aayog.