Mr. Neeraj Gambhir
President, Head- Treasury & Markets, Axis Bank.
Mr. Neeraj Gambhir is the Group Executive - Head Treasury, Markets and Wholesale Banking Products, Axis Bank. He has over 24 years of experience in the financial industry with expertise is in Fixed Income, Foreign Exchange, Capital markets, Structured Finance, Credit, Derivatives, Risk management and Investment Banking areas.
Previously he was Managing Director and Head of Fixed Income, India for Nomura in Mumbai where he helped set up and grow Nomura's India fixed income franchise. Before that, he was with Lehman Brothers, India as a Managing Director. Earlier, he was associated with ICICI bank as Senior General Manager and Global head of Structured Finance and Balance Sheet Management. During his tenure at ICICI Bank he also helped set up the Proprietary trading desk with trading capabilities across all asset classes viz Fixed Income, Equities, Currencies and derivative markets.
He has been a part of several working groups and committees set up the regulators and policy makers for developing India's financial markets. He was Chairman and board member of Fixed Income and Money Market Dealers Association of India during 2006-7. He was also involved in setting up of the Clearing Corporation of India and was a nominee director on its board. He was also Co-Chair of the Task force set up by Ministry of Finance, Govt of India for establishing a Public debt management office in India. He was involved in India - Japan discussion for financial co-operation as Nomura representative.
He is a regular expert commentator in print and TV on topics related to financial markets, macro economics and banking.
Neeraj holds a Bachelors of Engineering in Computer Science and has done his Post Graduation in Business Management from Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow where he was awarded PGP Chairman's Medal.