Manju Puri is the J.B. Fuqua Professor of Finance at the Duke University Fuqua School of Business. She was earlier associate professor of finance at Stanford Business School, which she joined after earning her Ph.D in finance at New York University and MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.

Professor Puri has expertise in the field of empirical corporate finance and, in particular, financial intermediation. Her published work spans the areas of commercial banks, investment banks, venture capital, entrepreneurship, behavioral finance, and fintech. 

She was a speaker at the Kenan Institute’s 2024 Conference on Market-Based Solutions for Reducing Wealth Inequality.