Dr Harsh is a management consultant and was a Partner and Senior Advisor with leading international management consulting firm Bain & Company. He has over 30 years of experience in the financial sector in India and globally where he has advised top management of companies in India, North America, Europe, Southeast Asia, Indo China, and Greater China, on issues of strategy, operations, organisation, risk management, etc. He has worked extensively on issues of corporate finance including mergers and acquisitions, alliance structuring and negotiations, valuations, review of major investment decisions for private equity and strategic investors, strategic due diligence, etc.
Dr Harsh is actively involved in policy making related to financial sector in India. He chaired the Committee on the Development of Securitisation for Housing Finance appointed by the RBI in 2019. Recently, he was a member of the Cross Border Insolvency Rules of Regulations Committee (CBIRC) of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs. He was a member of the Banking Working Group of the Financial Services Legislative Reforms Commission (FSLRC) set up by the Government of India as well as the Dr P J Nayak Committee on Governance in Banking set up by the RBI. He has been an expert witness to the Standing Committee on Finance of the Parliament on issues relating to financial sector regulation and the role of RBI. He has served on the CII National Committees for Private Equity, Regulatory Affairs and Commodity Markets. He regularly contributes articles and is a frequently invited speaker at conferences on Indian economy, banking and finance sector.
He is an Independent Director on the board of Karur Vysya Bank and National Commodities Clearing Ltd and chairs the Risk Management Committees of the board for both.
Harsh has a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engg from VNIT Nagpur followed by an MBA in Finance and Banking from IIM Kolkata, and an MS in Quantitative Finance and PhD in Business Economics & Strategy from the Smith School of Business of the University of Maryland USA.
