Dr. V. Anantha-Nageswaran was born in Chennai in 1963. He graduated with a Post-Graduate Diploma in Management (MBA) from the internationally reputed Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad in 1983.

He obtained a doctoral degree in Finance from the University of Massachusetts in 1994 for his work on the empirical behaviour of exchange rates.

Between 1994 and 2004, he worked for Union Bank of Switzerland (now UBS) and Credit Suisse in Switzerland and in Singapore.

In July 2006, he joined Bank Julius Baer & Co. Ltd. in Singapore as the Head of Research for Asia. In March 2009, he was appointed as the Chief Investment Officer for the bank.

He is an angel investor in many start-up companies in India. He was one of the founders of Aavishkaar India Micro Venture Capital Fund.

He is one of the Directors of the NPS Indian International School in Singapore. He is also on the Board of Bharatiya Samruddhi Finance Limited (a Microfinance Institution), Kerala First Health Services (Ayurved health care) and Aparajitha Corporate Services (end-to-end HR solutions)

He teaches International Finance to MBA students in Singapore and in India. He is member of the advisory board of the Centre for Emerging Market Solutions (CEMS) at the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, India.

He is one of the founders and Trustees of the Takshashila Institution (a networked virtual non-partisan think-tank contributing to India’s public policy discourse)

He writes a weekly column for MINT, an Indian financial daily on Tuesdays (www.livemint.com). MINT is published in collaboration with Wall Street Journal. He is a frequent guest at all the major international television networks.

Recent Blog Posts by Anantha Nageswaran

• Chinese Buyers Defer and Default May 23rd, 2012
• India on a Roll? May 11th, 2012
• India: Drama of the Outlook Downgrade April 30th, 2012
• Gavyn Davies ‘Fails’ the CFA Test March 26th, 2012
• Rational Markets March 14th, 2012
• Innovation, RIP February 27th, 2012
• Why This Kolaveri, Di? February 16th, 2012
• Central Banks: Contrasts in Asia-Pacific February 15th, 2012
• BoJ Joins the Race February 15th, 2012
• ‘Power’less in India February 13th, 2012
• The Korean Shocker February 10th, 2012
• The Indian Churn February 3rd, 2012
• Mindboggling Nonsense January 27th, 2012
• RBI’s CRR Cut January 25th, 2012
• No Matter How You Slice It, It Is Good January 18th, 2012
• Uneasy Davies January 12th, 2012
• India: Conflation and clarity January 11th, 2012
• The Euro Again December 13th, 2011
• Shekhar Gupta Spots Recession in India December 12th, 2011
• No Lost Decade for S&P 500?! December 8th, 2011
• Month-End Lipstick Effect November 30th, 2011
• The Fear of the Printing Press November 29th, 2011
• What They Do Not Teach You at Princeton November 14th, 2011
• India: A (WTF) Downgrade November 9th, 2011
• India: Backdoor Monetization November 2nd, 2011
• Burying India October 30th, 2011
• Just Wondering October 27th, 2011
• Martin to Mario October 26th, 2011
• Thomas Sargent October 11th, 2011
• America vs. Eurasia September 30th, 2011
• Production or Distribution September 28th, 2011
• Vignettes from RBI Annual Report 2010-11 August 30th, 2011
• Lazy Suggestions August 17th, 2011
• Another Chapter in Competitive Debasement August 11th, 2011
• Issing Is Unhappy August 11th, 2011
• Miller’s Faulty Brew August 9th, 2011
• Glass Houses and Other Links August 9th, 2011
• India: Pegging Back August 4th, 2011
• U.S. Debt Default July 27th, 2011
• Sputtering July 11th, 2011
• The Math Is Wrong July 3rd, 2011
• Calvinball and Other Links June 29th, 2011
• What if Stimulus Does Not Work? June 27th, 2011
• Supply and Prices Rise! June 26th, 2011
• The Hellenic Noise June 24th, 2011
• Rejoinder to Jamie Dimon June 16th, 2011
• Europe – Till Death Do Us Apart? June 14th, 2011
• Macro Marbles June 13th, 2011
• Roubini in Singapore June 13th, 2011
• Irrationally Rational May 16th, 2011
• Not Pre-Ordained May 12th, 2011
• Bernanke Bats for Banks and Reading Links May 9th, 2011
• Capitalism 4.0 May 9th, 2011
• Cost of Capital in China May 2nd, 2011
• Poverty Economics May 2nd, 2011
• Legitimate Complaint April 29th, 2011
• China: The Triple Trillionaire April 27th, 2011
• Reading Links April 22nd, 2011
• Finance and Inequality March 31st, 2011
• Overwhelming March 24th, 2011
• ‘Exorbitant Privilege’ to Continue March 8th, 2011
• Currency Devaluation and Domestic Demand March 7th, 2011
• ‘What a Way to Run a Country’ February 25th, 2011
• Is This the Dark Matter…? February 20th, 2011
• Why Did Economists Miss the Crisis? February 11th, 2011
• Complacency February 10th, 2011
• Had I Been in Davos… January 31st, 2011
• Bark Sharper than the Bite January 30th, 2011