Sanjay Nayar is the Citi Country Officer (CCO) and Citi Markets & Banking Head for India, and Area Head for Citi’s operations in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Nepal, since October 2002.
From 1996 to 2002, Mr. Nayar headed Salomon Smith Barney’s Emerging Markets Sales business in New York. From 1994, he was in London as Citibank’s Global Head for Emerging Markets Equities. Between 1985 and 1994, he held various positions across the Corporate Bank and the Transaction Bank in Citibank India, including the head of Corporate Finance and Capital Market. Before joining Citibank in 1985, he had worked in the U.K. as a design engineer.
Actively involved in Industry forums, Mr. Nayar is the Chairman, Banking Committee, for the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII); Co-Chairman, Banking Committee, for the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry (FICCI), and Chairman AMCHAM. He is also a member of the Indo-American Society, Indo-American Chamber of Commerce, and United Way of Mumbai; the SMILE Taskforce (whose committee is convened by the Securities & Exchange Board of India); and the National Payments Council (convened by the Reserve Bank of India). He is also the co-chairman of the Habitat for Humanity India BUILDS campaign.
Mr. Nayar holds an MBA in Finance from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, and a Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Delhi University.
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