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Dr. Punita Kumar-Sinha
Independent Director
Dr. Kumar-Sinha has focused on corporate governance and investment management during her career. She has been an Independent Director on major company boards for over a decade chairing key board committees including audit, stakeholders’ relationship, and nomination committees. Her prior board memberships include Infosys, JSW Steel, CFA Institute, Fairfax India Fund, Bharat Financial and several other companies. Previously, she was a Senior Managing Director, Blackstone. She chairs the IIT Delhi Investment Advisory Board and has also chaired the CFA Institute’s Investment sub-Committee. Dr. Kumar-Sinha is a financial expert with significant ESG experience and has led multiple board engagement initiatives with institutional investors.
Dr. Kumar-Sinha was among the first foreign investors in emerging markets and India managing some of the largest India Funds from the US. Dr. Kumar-Sinha was a Senior Managing Director at Blackstone and Head & Chief Investment Officer of Blackstone Asia Advisors. Prior to Blackstone, she was a Managing Director and Senior Portfolio Manager at Oppenheimer and CIBC World Markets. Dr. Kumar-Sinha has been regularly featured in the media and global conferences as an expert on global capital markets.
Dr. Kumar-Sinha has received the Distinguished Alumni Award from IIT Delhi and was awarded the Best Woman Director from the Asian Center for Corporate Governance in 2016. She was featured in Directors and Boards 2019, as “Directors to Watch: Racial and Ethnic Diversity” and listed as “One of India’s Most Influential Women” by Business World in 2021, 2022, and 2023. She completed the “Director’s Consortium” at Stanford, a program jointly run by the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Stanford Law School for current board members of public companies to learn strategies and best practices for making complex decisions.
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| Age | 63 years |
| Nationality | US |
| Appointed | August 12, 2020 |
| Tenure | 4 years |
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| Committee Membership | Chairman of the Audit Committee, Member of the Stakeholders’ Relationship Committee and Nomination & Remuneration Committee, Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility Committee |