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Rajiv is the Regional Managing Partner of EY Africa India region. In India, EY has over 120,000 employees across entities. He is also a member of EY Global Executive board as the Chair of its Growth Markets Council (GMC).
Rajiv advises large Indian companies, private equity funds and multinational organizations on building confidence, mergers & acquisitions, technology and smart capital allocation strategies. Before becoming Chairman, he established EY India’s market-leading Corporate Finance (now Strategy & Transactions) practice in the late 1990s.
Rajiv is the driving force behind EY Foundation, which has positively impacted more than 10,000 beneficiaries through a scholarship program and enabled half a million women in rural India.
Rajiv is a Chartered Accountant and holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Shri Ram College of Commerce.
How Rajiv is shaping the future with confidence
A strong believer in the long-term economic potential of Growth Markets, Rajiv regularly engages with domestic and global investors on the evolving opportunities in these markets. Rajiv actively contributes to public discourse on tax, economic and policy reforms and advocates for measures that strengthen India’s competitiveness. Most recently, he served as the President (2025–26) of the Confederation of Indian Industry, India’s largest and leading industry body.
He also serves on board of several education institutions and is a member of Young Presidents’ Organisation (YPO) South Asia.