Shankar Nagarajan
BTME 1980
Nag brings over 30 years of experience in finance, first in academia and then in management consulting, and asset management – across a broad range of alternative asset classes and investment strategies. For the past thirteen years, he has been the Head of Risk Management and an Investment Committee member at Prisma, a KKR-owned alternative asset manager. Previously, he was a partner at Risk Capital, a boutique risk advisory firm for corporate clients. Earlier, he had senior roles at Deloitte and Bankers Trust, advising clients on strategic and tactical risk management. In his advisory career, Nag had been a senior member of teams that won Euromoney’s Best Risk Advisor Award for four years.
In his previous career, Nag was a tenured Associate Professor of finance at McGill University, Montreal, as well as a Visiting Professor of Economics and Finance at Columbia Business School and Stern School of Business, New York University. He has published in leading economics and finance journals and served as a consultant to the Federal Reserve and People’s Bank of China.
Nag’s interests lie in rural development, and women’s/children’s education/welfare. He has a BTME from IIT Madras, as well as an MS. and a PhD from Northwestern University.