I work on harnessing the power of markets to reduce poverty.
Nachiket Mor is a Yale World Fellow; has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania with a specialization in Finance from the Wharton School; an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmadabad; and an undergraduate degree in Physics from the Mumbai University.
While completing his Ph.D., he was associated with a Philadelphia based hedge fund (Quantitative Financial Strategies) for three years. He has worked with ICICI from 1987 to 2007 in a variety of jobs, including, Corporate Planning, Project Finance, Rural Finance and Treasury and was a member of its Board of Directors from 2001 to 2007. From October 2007 to August 2010, he assisted ICICI in setting up a philanthropic foundation, the ICICI Foundation for Inclusive Growth and served as its founding President. He is now the Chairman of the Boards of Sughavazhvu Health Care, CARE India and IFMR Trust and is closely involved in the evolution of these three organizations in India.
He is currently also an independent member of a few other Boards including CRISIL; IKP Trust; IKP Centre for Advancement in Agricultural Practice; IKP Centre for Technologies in Public Health and the Institute for Financial Management and Research. He is also a member of four Central Government Committees: the High Powered Expert Committee on Urban Infrastructure; the Technical Advisory Group on Unique Projects; the Committee to Review Implementation of Informal Sector Pension; and the High Level Expert Group on Universal Health Coverage. In the past he has served as the Chairman of the Fixed Income Money Market and Derivatives Association of India for two years and as a Board Member of Wipro Limited for five years.
