Jayant Sinha is a directly elected Member of the Indian Parliament, and Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Finance. Previously, Mr. Sinha served on India’s Council of Ministers from 2014 to 2019; first, as the Minister of State for Finance and then as the Minister of State for Civil Aviation. He gained wide recognition as an innovative and results-oriented policymaker with singular successes ranging from piloting the legislation that brought in India’s game-changing bankruptcy code to establishing India’s sovereign wealth fund (the National Infrastructure Investment Fund) to privatizing multiple airports
under an entirely new regulatory framework. Prior to joining public life, Mr. Sinha was a Partner at McKinsey & Company, Courage Capital, and Omidyar Network. He has an MBA with Distinction from the Harvard Business School, an MS in Energy Management & Policy from the University of Pennsylvania, and a BTech with Distinction from IIT Delhi.