Dr. Shubhada M. Rao is the founder of QuantEco Research, an independent economic advisory firm. In a short span, QuantEco Research has built a client portfolio with representation from private banks, insurance companies, rating agencies, small finance banks, AMCs, PE Funds, factoring firms, foreign port folio investors, Non-financial corporates and Multi-lateral global institutions.<\/p>\n
She brings with her 35 years of experience in academia and industry. A gold medalist and a PhD in Economics from University of Mumbai, she has worked as Economist\/Chief Economist with marquee financial sector entities like ICICI, Times Bank, CRISIL, Bank of Baroda & Kotak Institutional Equities. She has made extensive presentations on India economy to institutions like Federal Reserve, Bank of England, Bank of Canada, G20-IIF meetings, Ministers and delegations\/ Secretaries of State of the UK,US, Australia, Japan among others. Prior to setting up QuantEco, she served as a Senior Group President & Chief Economist at YES Bank. Under her leadership, the Economics team at YES Bank was often ranked among Top 3 forecasters of Indian economic indicators by Bloomberg and was cited as top forecaster for currency by Reuters.<\/p>\n
Shubhada played an active role in industry associations. Some of her past industry association positions were: Chairperson-Economics Committee, BCCI; Co-Chair Economics Committee at ASSOCHAM; Member-CII National Economic Policy Council & Member -Monetary Policy Group-IBA. She represented India for US State Department\u2019s International Visitor Leadership Program in 2004<\/p>\n
In her career, Shubhada led a pioneering comprehensive study of the major drivers of liquidity in the financial markets. This project was completed under the guidance of the Internal Debt Management Cell of the RBI.<\/p>\n
She currently holds Board positions in three Indian companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1171,"menu_order":0,"template":"","team_designation":[],"team_department":[4],"class_list":["post-1183","team","type-team","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","team_department-speaker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/ablc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team\/1183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/ablc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/ablc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/team"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/ablc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/ablc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/ablc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"team_designation","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/ablc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team_designation?post=1183"},{"taxonomy":"team_department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/et-edge.com\/conferences\/ablc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team_department?post=1183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}