Aspen-Goldman Sachs Fellows
India Leadership Initiative Participant Biographies
Seminar One: "The Challenge of Leadership"
October 25 - 29, 2006
India Leadership Initiative Fellows
Sumeeta Banerji
Sumeeta is a social development professional and currently leads a 'Community of Practice' (CoP) on Poverty Reduction for the United Nations in India. Sumeeta's role involves bringing together a community of development practitioners from across India, including government, private sector, civil society, academia and donors, to discuss, offer solutions and prepare action agendas on issues related to work, employment, livelihoods and entrepreneurship for the poor. She has been able to engage the government and other key stakeholders in addressing implementation bottlenecks through action work undertaken by the CoP. Sumeeta is currently organizing a second all-India CoP on 'Microfinance' due to launch in October 2006. This initiative, which is part of the UN's Knowledge Management Partnership Initiative, has found acceptance amongst Government and development practitioners in India and is now in the process of being rolled out to other countries around the world. Prior to joining the UN in India, Sumeeta spent several years with the Canadian International Development Agency leading projects in the areas of governance, human rights, child rights, inclusive education, livelihoods, HIV/AIDS etc., focusing on building the capacity of local partners in addressing concerns of the poor in these sectors. Sumeeta did her Undergraduate Degree in History from the Lady Shri Ram College in New Delhi and her Masters in International Relations from the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna. She is also a linguist and has studied German (Masters in German), French (Advanced Diploma) and Spanish. She lives with her husband and two children in New Delhi.
Amit Bhatia
Amit is the Chief Executive Officer of WNS Knowledge Services Gurgaon, Haryana. WNS Knowledge Services has over 700 staff and provides high-end offshore research and analytics from three cities in India to corporations in US, UK and around the world. WNS (NYSE: WNS) is India's pre-eminent Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) company with over 12,000 employees and India's first BPO company to list on NYSE. Amit has over 15 years of experience in managing onshore and offshore research and analytics operations, with specialization in business and financial research. Additionally, he has extensive experience in consulting, serving customers in India and US. Prior to joining WNS, he served as the Country Manager for FreeMarkets Inc.,where he was responsible for building and leading the procurement consulting business and offshore operations in India. Most notably, Amit conceived, co-founded and led the McKinsey Knowledge Center in New Delhi, the consulting firm's global research and information delivery centre, serving over 80 McKinsey offices worldwide. He has also held research and analytic positions at American Express and a domestic brokerage firm. Amit has extensively been on the Speaker circuit at different colleges, institutes, conferences and industry forum (CII, NASSCOM, etc.). Amit Bhatia has a Bachelor's degree in Commerce from Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University and Master's degree in Finance from Delhi School of Economics. He is also a qualified Cost & Works Accountant. Amit is an avid traveler, writes poetry as a hobby and currently resides in Gurgaon with his wife and two children.
Sanjay Chhabra
Sanjay is a partner in the law firm of Archer & Angel based in the firm's New Delhi office. Sanjay is a member of the firm's Corporate practice and the head of the Regulatory Affairs and Real Estate practices as well as the Americas Practice Group. He has over 10 years of experience working on corporate transactions and has advised a number of multinational corporations and institutions on structuring their investments into India and other cross border transactions including acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic partnering arrangements. Sanjay has recently co-authored a book on doing business in India, recently published by Sweet & Maxwell. He advises clients such as Yahoo Inc, Citrix Systems Inc., AMN Health Care Inc, Government of Singapore, Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), Compuware Pte Ltd., Creative Technologies, Royal & Sun Alliance Insurance, MTU Asia Pacific. He also acts as counsel and sits on committees for various non-profit organizations working to better economy, sports and culture in India. These organizations include India Youth Soccer Association and Indian Society for Breast Health & Research. Sanjay is a member of the Sub-Committee on Benchmarking of the International Trademark Association (INTA). He is also a member of the International Franchise Lawyers Association (IFLA), Inter Pacific Bar Association (IPBA), and Bar Council of India. He has previously been unanimously elected Executive Member of Lawyers Associated Worldwide (L.A.W) for the Asia Pacific Region. Sanjay has obtained his Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) and Bachelor of Arts (majoring in Political Science) from University of Delhi in India and has previously worked with a leading law firm in Boston, United States where he advised various US corporations on the legal aspects of doing business in India. Sanjay is also currently the President of the Resident Welfare Association of a pocket in a colony -Vasant Kunj in New Delhi with approximately 500 families residing in the area. This area has a history of problems with essential needs such as water and power supply not available for many of the residents for many years. Sanjay has successfully worked along with Government departments to resolve a number of issues in a very short span of time. He has also undertaken a pilot project of water harvesting to conserve rain water in the pocket.
Karti P. Chidambaram
Karti is a politician from Chennai, India. He is a member of the All India Congress Committee. He was selected by the American Council of Young Political Leaders (ACYPL) to observe the U.S. Presidential Elections, 2004. Karti has been politically and socially active in his home state of Tamil Nadu. He has played an active and crucial role as a campaigner in all state & national general elections since 1996. He is an eloquent speaker in English and Tamil. He plays an active role in development of sports and participates in select Management Committees of Cricket, Tennis & Athletics. He is one of the founders of the Chennai chapter of Young Entrepreneurs Organization, a worldwide association of young entrepreneurs. Karti has co-founded an online social forum, "Karuthu" (means opinion), which promotes freedom of speech. He is a founder-director of Chess Management Services Private Limited, a Company actively involved in Corporate Governance and Legal Compliance Management. He holds a Business Degree from the University of Texas, Austin and a Law degree from Cambridge University, England.
Mukti Datta
Mukti is the Secretary, Jan Jagran Samiti in Almora, Uttaranchal. Mukti initiated a weaving project for women that started with ten women and two trainers, from the leprosy rehab centre in one village. The project grew organically to over 700 women trained that were then able to make marketeable shawls and accessories. The Panchachuli Women Weavers transformed into a private company with women as shareholders and on the board of directors, with upmarket hotels in India buying retail outlets, and a growing market in the US and Europe. This economically self-sustained industry is the largest in the hills of Uttaranchal State and functions with a credit limit from a bank. The second institution Mukti launched is the Dena Hospital, which today is the best-equipped secondary health care facility in the state. In addition to these two big institutions, she also runs an intermediate college for girls, where 126 girls from rural families study and get the opportunity for vocational training after they graduate (nurses, accountants, weavers) as well as seven schools, five of which are primary and two junior high schools. Her next plan is to start a women's movement in Uttaranchal to empower women politically, socially and economically.
Barkha Dutt
Barkha is the Managing Editor of NDTV 24x7, India's premiere satellite television channel beamed across South Asia and the Middle East. She is among India's best-known and most successful television anchors and journalists. She has won more than twenty national and international awards, including, India's most prestigious prize of Broadcast Journalist of the Year, 2005; the Commonwealth Broadcasters' Award, 2002, and the Global Leader for Tomorrow Award from the World Economic Forum in 2001. She is best known for her frontline reporting from conflict zones, including the Kargil war of 1999, Kashmir, Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and the Middle East. She is also the host of India's most popular talk show, We the People. Barkha Dutt studied at St. Stephen's College in Delhi, and later the School of Journalism at Columbia University in New York.
Govindraj Ethiraj
Govindraj works with Business Standard as Editor (New Media) looking after internet and related new ventures. He also is a columnist with the newspaper on general business issues and technology convergence. He has been a news journalist all through including previously at television channel CNBC-TV18 where he worked from near start-up point. Govindraj was actively involved in most of the channel's initial growth and expansion initiatives. Prior to that, he worked with Economic Times, actively involved in driving general business news and financial markets coverage out of Mumbai. He also worked with Business World and Business India magazines. Special interest areas over the years have included technology, finance, aviation and automobiles. Among his awards include: British Chevening Scholarships For Young Indian Print Journalists at The University of Westminster - 1998; Selected as one of 25 most influential personalities in media and advertising in Bombay by Mid-Day on its 25th Anniversary (2004); Nominated for Distinction in Communication at the Teacher's Achievement Awards 2004; BMW Foundation Herbert Quandt Indo German Young Leaders Forum 2005; Conferred Honorary Lifetime Member of the XLRI Alumni Association (2005), and Award For Outstanding Contribution To Media; Indira Award For Marketing Excellence 2006.
Sumita Ghose
Sumita is the Founder and Chief Executive of Rangsutra. She has close to 20 years of experience of working with rural communities in remote areas of India, in order to bring about social and economic change. From forming women's health collectives and self help groups aimed at economic self reliance, to mobilizing village communities to run primary education programs for their children, Sumita has worked extensively at the grassroots. Handicrafts and handloom weaving being one of the core competencies of rural communities, she has worked at organizing artisans into collectives and providing professional assistance, in order to get a better deal in the market place. Taking this ahead, and seizing the current growth opportunities in India, she is the Founder and Chief Executive of Rangsutra, an organization of craftspeople, who own shares and have a stake in the company. Started in December 2004, with a tiny capital of Rupees one Lakh, put in by artisans, Rangsutra plans to achieve a turnover of Rs four crores by 2007 - 08. Rangsutra's special contribution is design, technical and marketing support in order to enable rural artisans and farmers get a better deal in the market - both local and global. Sumita has a Masters Degree in Economics from Mumbai University, India. She has a second Masters in Conflict Resolution from the Eastern Mennonite University USA, as a Fulbright Fellow. Sumita is also a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship in India.
Sudha Iyer
Sudha is the Chairperson and Managing Director of Haritas Health Services. She has 2 MS degrees in Molecular Biology and Genetics and a PhD in Health Education, with a focus on management of diabetes among Indians through knowledge and empowerment of the patient. After spending 13 years in the US studying and working in institutions like The Johns Hopkins University and Sinai Hospital, she is now the Chairperson and Managing Director of Haritas Health Services, a company that focuses on delivering health education to people with diabetes and other chronic ailments. Sudha is also interested in combining current methods of health education and motivation from the West with traditional Indian approaches to have a unique paradigm that will promote health awareness and well being among Indians. Earlier, Sudha was one of the founding directors of Globarena, a company specializing in digital education. In 2004, she co founded the Srijana group, which has companies that do Web Business, Knowledge Services and Efficiency maximization.
Sanjay Jaju
Sanjay is the Commissioner of the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad. During his career with the government, he has been an ardent advocate of Information technology for development. He is presently working as Commissioner, Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad. An innovative project 'Hyderabad First" of the Municipal Corporation of Hyderabad initiated by him won the Golden Icon e-Governance Award of the Government of India under the process reengineering in professional category and also bagged the award "India's Best e-Content" in the category of e-Governance from 25 states by the Manthan-AIF Award Grand Jury 2006, New Delhi. During his previous tenure as Collector & Dist. Magistrate, West Godavari in India, a rural e-governance initiative e-seva pioneered by him was won the Gender ICT Award and "Tony Zeitoun ICT Stories Competition" of the Global Knowledge Partnerships at the WSIS-Geneva and also won a nomination for the Stockholm Challenge Award for the year 2004. The project pioneered a self-help based e governance model to bring technology to serve the poor. During his previous stint as Municipal Commissioner, Visakhapatnam, a comprehensive facility "Saukaryam" was completed to improve delivery of the civic services and has become a flagship project providing immense benefits to citizens. The project won many international awards including the Cyber City Award of UNDP. While working in a primary education project, a project titled 'Headstart' for computer-enabled education was initiated and completed by him. The last seven years of his professional career have allowed him opportunities for evolving and developing ICT4D projects. This has also helped him to maintain live contacts with the projects taken up both by government and non-government organizations in India. He has made presentations on e-governance all over the globe including at WSIS-Geneva and in the World Summit on Sustainable Development held in Johannesburg. He has participated in international and National Conferences on the development of information Society. He had written many papers that have been published and awarded in National and International journals and publications. His wife Dr Jyoti works for the World Health Organization.
Sanjay Jayavarthanavelu
Sanjay is the Wholetime Director of Lakshmi Machine Works Ltd. He holds an MBA from Philadelphia University, USA. Lakshmi Machine Works Ltd. is headquartered in Coimbatore, India and is one among the three in the world manufacturing the entire range of textile spinning machinery. He is also a Director of many companies of diversified products in the group. The group turnover for 2006 is about Rs.1600 cores. He is presently the Chairman of the Confederation of Indian Industry, (CII) Tamil Nadu Council & Chairman of the India-ITME Exhibition Society, Mumbai. He was the immediate past Chairman of Textile Machinery Manufacturers Association of India, Mumbai.(TMMA). He is a Member of the Council of Administration of the South India Textile Research Association and a Member of the Board of Governors of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Institute of Textile Management, Coimbatore. He is a Member of a Charity Trust which runs a 450 bedded hospital, an Arts College and a Higher Secondary School.
Vishakha Mulye
Vishakha is the Chief Financial Officer & Treasurer of ICICI Bank. Ms. Vishakha Mulye is the Chief Financial Officer & Treasurer of ICICI Bank Limited, India's largest private sector bank and the second largest bank in the country, with total assets of US$ 58.0 billion and a current market capitalisation of about US$ 12.0 billion. Vishakha is a chartered accountant and joined the ICICI group in 1993. She has worked extensively in the areas of project finance, structured finance, treasury, corporate planning and strategy, investor relations and resolution of distressed assets. She played a pivotal role in setting up the Special Asset Management Group, which was formed for proactive resolution of distressed assets. Vishakha played a key role in conceptualising and implementing the merger of ICICI with ICICI Bank, which led to the creation of the second largest bank in India. Between 2001 and 2005, she set up ICICI Bank's structured finance business. This pioneering effort led to the development of an active securitisation market in India. During this period, she was also responsible for ICICI Bank's client-related treasury and markets operations, capital markets business and relationships with domestic financial institutions and multilateral institutions. As the CFO & Treasurer of ICICI Bank, she is currently responsible for financial reporting, balance sheet management, planning, strategy, investor relations, corporate communications and risk management functions of the Bank. She has been instrumental in strengthening the Bank's capital base through the first simultaneous ADR and domestic equity offering from India and more recently through the first issuance of hybrid Tier-1 capital by any bank in India. Vishakha lives in Mumbai with her husband and two children.
Anuj Poddar
Anuj is Director, Corporate Strategy & Business Development, South Asia for MTV Networks. He is responsible for driving all growth initiatives, new business investments and managing key strategic relationships in South Asia for MTV Networks, a part of Viacom Inc. - a $10 billion entertainment conglomerate. From 2003-2005 Anuj was with KPMG, where as the Head of the Media & Entertainment Advisory Practice, he worked closely with several leading media & entertainment companies. Prior to that Anuj worked with Andersen for 8 years, across a range of Strategic & Operational Consulting and Mergers & Acquisitions Advisory mandates. During his stint with Andersen, he led the India-outsourcing advisory practice and was also actively involved in the Financial Services sector during the early period of Indian liberalization and economic reforms. In the year 2000, in the midst of his professional career, Anuj promoted an independent entrepreneurial venture, incorporating Nirvana Services Private Limited: a company providing exclusive services to the global Indian community. Pre-1995, Anuj has been involved with his family business of magazines and textiles. Anuj is a member of the Governing Council of 'Young Indians', a part of the Confederation of Indian Industry. Anuj has schooled in Michigan, USA and Mumbai, India and is a rank-holding Chartered Accountant. Anuj lives with his wife and 2 daughters in Mumbai, India.
Mukund Govind Rajan
Mukund is Vice President, Tata Sons Limited, Mumbai. Mukund joined the Tata Group, a $22 billion diversified industrial group with a market leading presence in several business sectors, including steel, automobiles, information technology, power and telecom, through the Tata Administrative Service (TAS) in January 1995. He was assigned to the office of Mr. Ratan Tata, Chairman of the Group's investment holding company, Tata Sons Limited, in 1996, and continues to support Mr. Tata as a member of his office. Mukund serves on the Boards of several Tata companies, including the Group's telecom enterprises, Tata Teleservices Limited (TTSL), Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited (VSNL) and VSNL Singapore Pte. Limited (VSPL). He is currently serving a term as the President of the Association of Unified Telecom Service Providers of India (AUSPI), the association of CDMA operators in India. Mukund completed his B. Tech at the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 1989, where he served in his final year as General Secretary of the Student Affairs Council. He received a Rhodes Scholarship to study at Oxford University, where he completed a Masters and Doctorate in International Relations. His doctoral dissertation was published by Oxford University Press, and is titled "Global Environmental Politics - India and the North-South Politics of Global Environmental Issues". Mukund and his wife, Soumya, whom he met at Oxford, live in Mumbai.
Anand Shah
Anand is Co-founder and Executive Director of Indicorps in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. After graduating from Harvard College in 1999, Anand Shah helped start the Media and Technology Charter High school in Boston. In 2001, he helped found Indicorps, where he currently manages programs and overall strategy from Ahmedabad. Indicorps is an effort to promote and legitimize civic participation in India's development by engaging young Indians from around the world in grassroots development projects across India. In the process, Indicorps aims to nurture the leadership potential of each participant. Indicorps, through its operating philosophy, aims to show that it is the commitment and time of India's most talented minds, not just financial resources, that will drive effective development. Anand also serves as CEO of the Piramal Foundation, an innovative private foundation dedicated to developing the social infrastructure to enable India's youth to actively participate in national progress. In addition, Anand is an is a member of the tt30, the Club of Rome's young think tank, was selected as a Reinhard Mohn Fellow, and serves on the board of KaosPilot International, a European school of creative business design and social innovation.
Renu Sharma
Renu is an officer of the Indian Administrative Service. She has a MPhil degree in Political Science from the Jawahar Lal Nehru University and a diplome in l'Administration Publique from "l'Institute Internationale d'Administration Publique" of Paris, France. She was selected as the international scholar in the prestigious "la Fondation Nationale d'Enterprise et Performance" in 1999-2000. The foundation worked on "l'Exercise du Pouvoir dans l'Administration et l'Enterprise Privee"(management and administration in public and private enterprise). From 2000-06 she headed the 'Bhagidari'cell in the office of the Chief Minister of Delhi. She was associated with the writing of the first Human Development Report 2006 (HDR) for Delhi, in particular the section on 'Institutions and Governance'. She is presently working in the Ministry of Commerce & Industry in Government of India.
Shivinder Mohan Singh
Shivinder is the Managing Director of Fortis Healthcare Limited and Escorts Heart Institute & Research Centre. Shivinder Mohan Singh is a young entrepreneur who is currently making waves in the healthcare industry in India. He is also one of the principal promoters and director on the boards of Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited and SRL Ranbaxy. An alumnus of Doon School and an Honours Graduate in Mathematics from St. Stephens College, Delhi, Shivinder has done his MBA with specialization in healthcare sector management from the Duke University Business School, USA. Notwithstanding his stature as promoter, Shivinder began his career as a Management Trainee with Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited in 1996. He progressively advanced his professional expertise and through exposure in several assignments in Fortis Healthcare Limited commencing with Executive Assistant to the Chairman in 2000 and working through as Project Leader, Chief Operating Officer, Director - Projects and Joint Managing Director, before becoming the Group Managing Director in 2006. His passion is to create the world's best healthcare delivery company based out of India, and simultaneously contribute to the overall development of healthcare sector in India, in terms of quality of care available, and as a medical tourism destination. He also believes that working in this sector, every organization must have a focus to create sustainable models to big healthcare to the weaker sectors of society. He lives with his wife and four sons in NewDelhi, India.
Minal Vazirani
Minal is the Co-Founder of Saffronart, where she is responsible for managing all day-to-day activities of the business and planning the strategic direction of the company. Planet Saffron's flagship brand, Saffronart, has, over the last 2 years, become the largest auction house, globally, for modern and contemporary Indian art. At Saffronart, Minal has curated, planned and organized exhibitions of Indian art in India and internationally. Minal is a regular panelist and guest speaker at Indian contemporary art events. Minal is on the board of advisors to the Friends of Sir JJ School of Art Trust and at Time Out Magazine in India. Prior to founding Saffronart, Minal was a management consultant with Booz, Allen & Hamilton in Mumbai where she worked across several industries in the US, South East Asia and India. Before her tenure at Booz Allen, Minal was with Andersen Consulting in Mumbai and Los Angeles. Minal received her MBA from INSEAD in France, where she received the Sasakawa Fellowship, and her B.S. in Chemical Engineering with a minor in Art History & Indian History from the University of California, Los Angeles. Minal has been an active collector of Indian Contemporary Art over the last 12 years.
V. Bunty Bohra
Bunty is global head of the Structured Product Syndicate desk in the Mortgage Department of the Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities Division. He is the co-captain of MIT undergraduate recruiting for the firm and serves as co-head of the firmwide Asian Professionals Network. Bunty joined Goldman Sachs in 1996 in the J. Aron Currency and Commodities Division, where he traded commodities for four years in New York and London, before becoming franchise manager of the Commodities and Futures Services business units. He became a managing director in 2005. Bunty earned a BS in Chemical Engineering and Management Science from MIT in 1996.
Prashant Khemka
Prashant is the head of Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) research in Mumbai. Prior to moving to Mumbai in September 2006, he was a senior portfolio manager and co-chair of the investment committee for the Growth Equity team of GSAM in the US. Prashant joined Goldman Sachs in 2000 as an investment research associate. In 2003, he became a portfolio manager and in 2004, he was named senior portfolio manager and co-chair of the investment committee. Prashant became a vice president in 2001. Prior to joining the firm, Prashant worked as an assistant portfolio manager in the fundamental strategies group at State Street Global Advisors.
Prashant earned a bachelors in mechanical engineering from Bombay University. He received his M.B.A. in finance from the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University and received Matt Wiggington leadership award for outstanding performance in finance. He and his wife, Ritu, have one daughter and live in Mumbai.
Ravi Krishnan
Ravi is currently the Chief Financial Officer of Goldman Sachs Services Pvt. Ltd. His responsibilities include managing the Goldman Sachs services centre in Bangalore along with the CEO and supporting the set up of the India investment banking and broker dealer business in Mumbai. Ravi joined Goldman Sachs in 1998 as a Vice President in the Finance division in Hong Kong assuming various responsibilities in that group, before taking over as the Financial Controller for the Asia Ex Japan region in 2002. In 2003, he was one of the key members of the team that helped conceptualize and set up the Goldman Sachs Office in Bangalore and in that process relocated back to India in 2004. He is on the advisory board of Pine Street, the Goldman Sachs Leadership development program and also represents the firm on the American Chamber of Commerce of India. Ravi has run his own chartered accountancy firm for a decade and worked at investment banks such as Socgen Crosby and NatWest Markets before joining Goldman Sachs.
Jesse Lentchner
Jesse Lentchner is managing director, head of equities for Goldman Sachs in India. He moved to Mumbai in September 2006 from Tokyo, where he co-headed the equity sales trading desk since May 2000. Before joining Goldman Sachs, Jesse worked as an equity sales trader in Tokyo for two years at Nomura, in Hong Kong for two years and in New York for three years for W.I. Carr. Before that, he worked for five years in NY for a Japanese bank trading fixed income. Jesse graduated with a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College in 1988, after spending his senior year studying in Japan.
Shobana Mani
Shobana joined Goldman Sachs in 2002 as an analyst in the Special Execution Group in the Investment Banking Division. She spent two years in the group analyzing and involved in the legal aspects of capital markets execution. In her third year at the firm, she worked in the Executive Office Government Affairs group working on the Goldman Sachs trade project in the context of the Doha Development Trade round. She worked with WTO member countries on financial services liberalization. As an Associate at the firm she works with New Markets and the corporates there to find innovative structured and project finance solutions for their financing needs. Shobana sits on the steering committee of the Goldman Sachs London Asian Professionals Network and has been an Investment Banking Division representative since 2002. She is also involved in mentoring and recruiting efforts. Shobana is a member of the Evian Group international trade discussion group. Shobana received her Master of Science from the London School of Economics in Law and Accounting/Finance (2002), she studied finance for a year at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (2001) . She earned her BA in International Political Economy from The George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs (2000) and spent one year focusing on international affairs (1998-1999) at the London School of Economics.
Sandeep Patel
Sandeep is Head of Corporate Finance for India. He recently moved to Mumbai after spending more than seven years with Goldman Sachs in New York in the Mergers and Acquisitions and Consumer/Retail Departments. He became a Vice President in 2002. Sandeep earned a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1999, a M.S. in Economics from M.I.T. in 1998, and a B.A. in Economics and Biology from Williams College in 1993. He was a Fulbright Scholar to India from 1993-1994, during which time he focused on economic and environmental issues. Sandeep has also worked as a summer associate at the U.S. Department of Justice, Natural Resources Defense Council, and Sullivan & Cromwell.
Vikram P. Sahu
Vikram P. Sahu is the Director of Research for Goldman Sachs India LLC. Vikram has been an equity analyst for the last 12 years and joined Goldman Sachs in London, as an Executive Director in September 1999. Prior to his career in research, Vikram worked for the United Nations in New York and Maastricht and spent two years in industry. He received his BA from St.Stephen's College in Delhi and was awarded full scholarships to his Masters program at Northern Illinois University and his PhD program at Manchester University. Vikram serves on the Goldman Sachs Charitable Contributions Committee.
