Rajrishi Singhal

Rajrishi Singhal has been a senior journalist, banker and public policy analyst-cum-consultant. He was executive editor at the Economic Times, consulting editor with Mint, head (policy, research and strategy) at a private sector bank and senior fellow for geoeconomic studies at a Mumbai-based think tank. Rajrishi has a master’s degree in economics from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and is the recipient of two prestigious fellowships: Gurukul Chevening fellow at the London School of Economics (1997–98) and the C.V. Starr fellow at the Center for the Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania (2002).

Rajrishi has served on two government committees appointed to re-examine policy options in areas of financial services such as pension-sector reforms. Apart from his independent consulting practice relating to financial services and public policy, he writes a fortnightly column for Mint (called ‘General Disequilibrium’) and another one on financial services for moneycontrol.com.

He currently lives in Mumbai with his wife and two daughters.