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Karthik Ramanna is Professor of Business & Public Policy at the University of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government and a fellow of St. John’s College. He teaches a popular course at Oxford on managing organisations in polarised times, which led to his 2024 book .

An expert on business-government relations, sustainable capitalism, and corporate reporting & auditing, Professor Ramanna studies how organizations and leaders build trust with stakeholders. His scholarship has won numerous awards, including the Journal of Accounting & Economics Best Paper Prize, the Harvard Business Review-McKinsey Prize for 'groundbreaking management thinking', and three times the international Case Centre’s prizes for 'outstanding case-writing', dubbed by the Financial Times as 'the business school Oscars'.

At Oxford, Professor Ramanna established the and the , the latter a bespoke, by-invitation programme for senior leaders looking to reimagine their public-service impact. In 2022, he co-founded the non-profit , where he serves as principal investigator, with a mission to drive decarbonisation processes through rigorous GHG accounting. From 2016 to 2023, he was director of Oxford’s programme that has educated over a thousand public leaders from about 120 countries. From July 2023 to April 2025, Professor Ramanna was on partial public-service leave from Oxford to advise the US Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, an 'auditor of auditors' in global markets.

Previously, he was a professor and the Marvin Bower Fellow at , teaching leadership, corporate governance, and accounting in both the MBA and senior executive-education programs. He has a doctorate from . He lives in Oxford with his husband, Jon, and they enjoy dinner parties and touring .

On Management & Leadership

• “”, SSRN Working Paper (2022). (A practical, how-to guide for organisational leaders in a time of deep polarisation, based on my eponymous Oxford course.)
• “”, Times Higher Education (2020). (I describe how the Oxford MPPs from over 100 countries have built a collaborative community of public service.)
• “”, Oxford Blavatnik School Technical Note (2020). (Beyond analytical skills and moral reasoning, universities must impart an education in good judgement: this is essential to developing competent generalists, who should be our political leaders in society. .)

On Sustainable Capitalism

• “” California Management Review (2020). (Read why ‘Inclusive Capitalism’ can be dangerous for democracy.)
• “”, California Management Review (2015). (Read how experts use their tacit knowledge of esoteric matters to undermine market capitalism.)
• “”, The American Interest (2020). (I describe the economic forces that are tearing apart America’s liberal consensus, and, arguing that there is no better alternative to liberalism at present, I offer a way forward.)

On Accounting & Auditing

• “”, Harvard Business Review (2022). (An auditable, cost-effective, and easy-to-use approach to supply-chain carbon accounting to replace the flawed “Scope 3” approach: winner of the .)
• “”, PwC Future of Audit Initiative (2019). (Part of a series on audit and governance reform; )
• “”, Accounting, Economics and Law — A Convivium (2013). (Read how the idealist project to create a common accounting language worldwide was hijacked by domestic and international politics.)