Gateway House hosted a roundtable discussion on India-UK economic relations with Richard Salt, Deputy Director, Global Economics (GE), HM Treasury and Matthew Molloy, Economic Adviser, Emerging Markets Strategy and Economics, HM Treasury on 2 December 2015. The discussion was moderated by Suneet Weling, Executive Director, Kotak Mahindra Investment Bank.
Richard Salt currently serves as the Deputy Director Global Economics team in HM Treasury. He is also the member of the Senior Civil Service, and part of the management team of the International and EU Group – responsible for protecting UK’s economic and fiscal interests. Previously, he was a Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States leading a program of research, convening and grant-making on US/EU economic cooperation and trade.
Matthew Molloy is the Head of Emerging Europe Branch as Advisor to the UK government. His work focuses on economic developments in eastern and southern Europe. He was the Senior Associate at the Financial Conduct Authority that regulates the conduct of over 70,000 businesses. He also worked as an Economist in the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. He leads the negotiations for the UK on one of the four main EU regulations governing the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) for 2014-2020. He managed a team of analysts and policy officers responsible for mitigating the financial risks to UK agriculture and Defra (Department of Food and Rural Affairs).He holds a Masters Degree in Economics from the University of Auckland
Suneet Weling is currently the Executive Director at Kotak Investment where he advises Indian and international companies on mergers and acquisitions and capital raising in India. Prior to joining Kotak Investments he was with Deutsche Bank, Merrill Lynch and UBS. At the Deutsche Bank he advised companies in South East Asia on mergers and acquisitions and capital raising. And at Merrill Lynch he advised the company on US media and telecom companies on a range of investment banking transactions. Suneet graduated from Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government