Dr. Rajiv Lall is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of IDFC. Dr. Lall has over two decades of experience with leading global investment banks, multilateral agencies and academia. His areas of expertise include project finance, private equity/ venture capital, international capital markets, trade and macroeconomic policy issues with a focus on India and China.

Prior to joining IDFC, Dr. Lall was variously, a Partner with Warburg Pincus in New York, Head of Asian Economic Research, with Morgan Stanley Asia Limited, and Economist with the World Bank, Washington DC and the Asian Development Bank (ADB), Manila, Philippines and a member faculty of Florida Atlantic University.

Dr. Lall has a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University and a Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University.

Dr. Lall has a number of publications to his credit and is fluent in French.