Teaching
Academic Programmes
5-Year B.A., LL.B. (Hons.)
Courses
Nov 2022
Education
- B.A. (Economics), Yale University – 2004
- Juris Doctor, UCLA School of Law – 2009
- M.B.A., IESE Business School – 2016
Profile
Arjun is Finance Director at Proxymity, a London-based fintech startup that specializes in digital investor communications . He previously worked at Citibank, the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy, KPMG and Harvard University’s “Ideas42” research initiative, and interned with AZB & Partners in Mumbai. While at Citibank, Arjun worked with the founders of Proxymity and with Citi’s venture funding arm to build and grow the Proxymity business. When Proxymity was spun out of Citibank in 2020, Arjun led the new company’s legal and finance functions. He now works with the senior leadership team on strategic initiatives.
He is interested in questions of financial regulation, corporate governance and innovation, both in the Indian and international contexts.
Research Work
Contributed to the following:
- Report of the Committee to Review the Framework of Access to Domestic and Overseas Capital Markets (Phase II, Part I: Indian Depository Receipts) – Ministry of Finance · Jun 1, 2014
- Handbook on adoption of governance enhancing and non-legislative elements of the draft Indian Financial Code – Ministry of Finance · Dec 26, 2013
- Report of the Committee to Review the FCCBs and Ordinary Shares (Through Depository Receipt Mechanism) Scheme, 1993 – Ministry of Finance · Nov 1, 2013.
Publications
Authored and co-authored blog posts on the LEAP blog:
- Policy puzzles of the digital nirvana, 19 December 2014.
- Difficulties with PFRDA’s Draft Aggregator Regulations, 2014, 2 July 2014.
- Living within the Handbook: One recent example, 24 May 2014.
- Fixing the Indian capital controls against DR issuance by Indian firms, 15 May 2014.
- Capital controls against FDI in aviation: An example of bad governance in India, 21 April 2014.
- Difficulties with Special Guidance and General Guidance in the IFC, 11 February 2014.
- From clubs to States: The future of self-regulating organisations, 19 December 2013.