Prof. D. Lazar is on the faculty in School of Management, Pondicherry University for the last one decade after serving Loyola College, Chennai. He is a qualified Cost Accountant with a professional diploma in Management and a recipient of the best researcher award for research in the area of Social Science. He worked in Bhutan under TCS of Colombo Plan on deputation by Government of India. Organized four International Conferences on Micro Finance. He has published thirty-five research articles, six edited volumes and nine monographs. He had delivered invited lectures in various Universities in USA, Mexico and visited Italy and Germany.

Corporate Finance, Micro Finance,Market Microstructure, Asset Pricing, Micro Finance & Inclusion, Financial Literacy and Capability, Financial Derivatives, Activity Based Costing