Rajiv B. Lall is the managing director and vice chairman of

Infrastructure Development Finance Company Infrastructure Development Finance Company Limited, more commonly known as IDFC, is a finance company based in India under Department of Financial Services, Government of India. It provides finance and advisory services for infrastructure pr ...

(IDFC) in

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.Lok Capital exploring new strategies for social impact
business-standard.com (2012-11-14). Retrieved on 2013-01-11.Executive Profile - Rajiv Bihari Lall
Business Week (2012). Retrieved on 2013-01-11. His father

K.B. Lall K.B. Lall (1917–2005) was an eminent and highly respected civil servant of India and a member of ICS. He was Principal Defence Secretary of India in Indo-Pak war in 1971. Earlier, he served as Commerce Secretary as well as Ambassador to the Eu ...

was a member of

Indian Civil Service The Indian Civil Service (ICS), officially known as the Imperial Civil Service, was the higher civil service of the British Empire in India during British rule in the period between 1858 and 1947. Its members ruled over more than 300 million ...

Early life and education

Lall was born on 2 August 1957. acquired a B.A. (Hons) degree in politics, philosophy, and economics from the

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and Ph.D. in

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from

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.Golden years of finance yet to come in India: Rajiv Lall, CEO, IDFC
Economic Times (2010-10-07) Retrieved on 2013-01-11. He is conversant in French and can

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and

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.The Re-Engineer
Forbes (2009-12-11) Retrieved on 2013-01-11. Rajiv Lall resides in

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, and is married to Bunty Chand, the executive director of the Indian chapter of the John Rockefeller-founded

Asia Society The Asia Society is a non-profit organization that focuses on educating the world about Asia. It has several centers in the United States (Manhattan, Washington, D.C., Houston, Los Angeles, and San Francisco) and around the world (Hong Kong, Ma ...

.Of global sensibilities... and menus
Business Standard (2007-12-23) Retrieved on 2013-01-11 He also has a home in Singapore.

Career

Before joining Warburg Pincus in 1997, Rajiv Lall was the Head of Asian Economic Research with Morgan Stanley Asia Limited. In 2005, Lall joined IDFC as MD and CEO. he serves as a director of IDFC Trustee Company Pvt. Ltd., IDFC Capital Company Limited, IDFC Projects Limited, IDFC-SSKI Securities Limited, IDFC-SSKI Limited,

IDFC Bank IDFC First Bank (formerly IDFC Bank) is an Indian Private Sector Bank formed by the merger of the banking arm of Infrastructure Development Finance Company and Capital First Ltd., an Indian non-bank financial institution. It is the first univ ...

, STCI Finance Limited, National Stock Exchange of India Limited, Spandana Sphoorty Finance Limited, Delhi Integrated Multi- Modal Transit System Limited, Qualitas Healthcare, and IDFC Private Equity.IDFC official website
IDFC During his career spanning over two decades, he was worked with the

World Bank The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and grants to the governments of low- and middle-income countries for the purpose of pursuing capital projects. The World Bank is the collective name for the Inte ...

Warburg Pincus Warburg Pincus LLC is a global private equity firm, headquartered in New York, with offices in the United States, Europe, Brazil, China, Southeast Asia and India. Warburg has been a private equity investor since 1966. The firm currently has ...

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and

Asian Development Bank The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is a regional development bank established on 19 December 1966, which is headquartered in the Ortigas Center located in the city of Mandaluyong, Metro Manila, Philippines. The bank also maintains 31 field offi ...

. He was also an assistant professor at

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. During Lall's tenure, IDFC became India’s biggest infrastructure finance company with balance sheet worth more than ₨ 60,000 crore.Lunch with BS
Business Standard (2012-06-12) Retrieved on 2013-01-11

Social interests

Lok Foundation, along with Lok Capital Group, provides

social venture capital Social venture capital is a form of investment funding that is usually funded by a group of social venture capitalists or an impact investor to provide seed-funding investment, usually in a for-profit social enterprise, in return to achieve an out ...

to promote

social entrepreneurship Social entrepreneurship is an approach by individuals, groups, start-up companies or entrepreneurs, in which they develop, fund and implement solutions to social, cultural, or environmental issues. This concept may be applied to a wide range of ...

in education, healthcare and low-cost housing segments.

References

External links

CV on US - India CEO Forum

Interview on ET Now

World Economic Forum - Dr. Rajiv Lall
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