Pranjul Bhandari
Chief India and Indonesia Economist and Managing Director, HSBC
Pranjul Bhandari is Chief India and Indonesia Economist and Managing Director at HSBC. Prior to joining HSBC, Bhandari completed a resident fellowship at the IMF in Washington, DC and a Mason Fellowship at the Harvard Kennedy School. Previously, she worked at India's Ministry of Finance with the Chief Economic Advisor and at the Planning Commission with the Deputy Chairman. She has held roles as an economist covering Asian markets at Goldman Sachs and at the UK's Department for International Development. In 2019, she was a member of the RBI’s committee for developing India’s Housing Finance market. In 2020, she was named the “Best Individual for Research in India” by the Asset Magazine and featured in Forbes’s list of 20 self-made Indian women. Bhandari holds a Masters in Economics from the University of Cambridge (UK) as well as the Harvard Kennedy School (US), and a BA in Economics from St. Stephen's College, New Delhi.
Pranjul Bhandari