Senior Advisory Board

Nasser Munjee (Chair, Advisory Board) (LSE BSc Econ. 1971-74; MSc Econ. 1974-75) has served on 30 Company Boards in India over the last 2 decades, and is currently Chairman of TATA Motor Finance, and on the Board of Indian Hotels and Cummins (India), amongst others. Nasser is also an active member of many non-profit organisations including being Chairman of The Aga Khan Foundation India & The Aga Khan Rural Support Programme India, and serves on the Board of the Indian Institute of Human Settlements, and the City of London for India.

Kaushik Basu (LSE PhD Econ. 1976) is Professor of Economics and the C. Marks Professor of International Studies at Cornell University. Basu has served as the Senior Vice-President and Chief Economist of the World Bank and as Chief Economic Advisor to the Government of India (2009-2012). He founded Centre for Development Economics in Delhi and is the President of the International Economic Association. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2008 by the Government of India. 

Craig J Calhoun is University Professor in Social Sciences at Arizona State University. Prior to this, he was President of the Berggruen Institute in Los Angeles, CA (2016-18); and Director & President of LSE (2012-16) where he remains Centennial Professor. Craig has also been President of the Social Science Research Council in New York (1999-2012), and University Professor at NYU (2004-12).

A Mushtaque R Chowdhury (LSE MSc Demography 1978-79) was until recently Vice Chairperson of BRAC, Dhaka where he started his career more than 40 years ago. He was the founding Director of BRAC’s Research & Evaluation Division, was previously its Executive Director, alongside serving in several international organisations including The Rockefeller Foundation (2009-12) and the UN, teaching at Columbia (2002-04), and was MacArthur Fellow at Harvard (1992-93).

M Ali Jameel (LSE BSc Accounting & Finance 1991) is CEO, TPL Trakkers Pvt Ltd in Karachi. He has previously served as Chief Executive of Jahangir Siddiqui Executive Bank (1999-2001). He has also held several advisory posts in the Pakistani IT and telecom sectors, and serves as Director, Executive Director and Non-Executive Director of several companies. He is an Associate Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales. 

Lata Krishnan (LSE BSc Econ. 1981) is Chief Financial Officer for Shah Capital Partners. She co-founded SMART Modular Technologies (WWH) Inc. in 1989 and also held corporate accounting and finance positions at Montgomery Securities, Arthur Andersen LLP, and Hill Vellacott & Company in London, England. She has also held Director and Advisor posts to several boards in the Finance and Accounting sector. She is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Ratan N Tata is a businessman, philanthropist, investor and Chairman Emeritus of Tata Sons, the holding company of the Tata Group, the Mumbai-based global business conglomerate. He has been awarded the Padma Bhushan (2000) and Padma Vibhushan (2008) by the Government of India, and The Honorary Knight Cross of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (2014) by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II for his lifelong services to business and community.