Akshay is the former Chief Executive Officer, Director of Research and a Fellow of Geoeconomic Studies. His research focuses on the architecture of international business, finance and trade, and its impact on geopolitics.
Before joining Gateway House, he worked as a Principal Architect with Fidelity Investments in Boston in the advanced research, strategy formulation, and business architecture.
He has an MBA from Boston University’s Questrom School of Business with concentration in Finance and Business Analysis and research focused on transnational business and global macroeconomics. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from the School of Computer Science at University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Akshay is an alumnus of Mayo College, Ajmer.
He is the co-founder of an NGO called Aasra Gramin Vikas Sansthan and of a social enterprise called Khushi Farms, both based in Ajmer, Rajasthan, India.
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Geoeconomics studies, International business, International finance, International trade and International economics
From the Indian perspective, how China manages the readjustment of its economy and how secure South Asia remains, will be two major determinants that will influence world affairs in 2015. Gateway House has developed four scenarios to explain the outcomes that will ensue, starting 2015, when these two determinants intersect.
An article by Akshay Mathur, Head of Research, Gateway House, examining the geoeconomic relationship between India and China was published in The Economic Times.
The trade deficit and border issues have usually overshadowed the public discourse between India and China. However, below this surface, bilateral business and financial engagement is growing. India will have to engage judiciously with China to ensure that the resulting geoeconomic benefits remain in our favour
The launch of the BRICS bank can now give the member countries confidence to experiment with other geoeconomic ambitions. Incubating a non-dollar financial architecture can be the next goal. There are existing models to build upon but India will need smart economic diplomacy to secure its interests
This panel discussion on critical elements of India's foreign policy and expectations from BRICS countries. The panelists discuss the strength and the relevance of BRICS, the BRICS development bank, and the India-China & India-Russia relationship
Akshay Mathur, Head of Research, and Rajrishi Singhal, Senior Geoeconomics Fellow, discuss some of the important components of the Budget and evaluate it in the context of the expectations and the needs of the Indian economy
Akshay Mathur, Head of Research, and Rajrishi Singhal, Senior Geoeconomics Fellow, analyse what the 2014 budget will mean for India's external engagements
Brazil is all set to host the 6th BRICS Summit from July 15. In light of the fact that most developing nations have concerns over the pro-western bent of the World Bank and the IMF, the BRICS initiative of setting up of a Development Bank needs to gain momentum and the nations should finalise the mandate on a priority basis
By inviting all SAARC heads of state to his swearing in ceremony and by choosing Bhutan to be the destination of his first foreign trip abroad, Prime mInister Modi has made foreign policy and SAARC central to the new government's agenda.
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