Mr. Narayan Ramachandran is a writer, and emerging markets investor. He is co-founder and Fellow of the Takshashila Foundation, a public policy school and think tank. He writes a fortnightly column titled “A Visible Hand” for ‘The Mint’ newspaper. He teaches an online graduate-level course on contemporary economics.
Narayan is also co-chairman of Unitus Capital, India’s largest social enterprise investment bank. He recently finished a full 8-year term as Chairman of RBL Bank, one of India’s fastest growing banks. At RBL, he was one of the founding team members that led the transformation of the bank from a small regional bank to one that is now listed and has a national footprint. He is an active private equity investor in financial services, social enterprises and consumer businesses.
He serves as the Chairman and co-founder of InKlude Labs, a social business enterprise working in the field of education and public health. Through InKlude Labs, Narayan works with deserving NGOs to help them scale. He is currently working on his third incubation with the Center for Wildlife Studies.
Earlier, Narayan was the Country Head of Morgan Stanley India, leading all of the Morgan Stanley group’s businesses. He was the head and lead portfolio manager of Morgan Stanley’s Global Emerging Markets and Global Asset Allocation teams, managing over USD 25 billion in assets. Before joining Morgan Stanley, he was a managing director at Rogers Casey. He began his career at Goldman Sachs. He served as General Partner and Member of the Global Strategy Advisory Board of L Catterton Asia, a consumer-focused growth equity firm.Narayan received a B.Tech. in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan. Narayan holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. He is on the board of several entrepreneurial companies and foundations.