Pavan Sukhdev

Pavan Sukhdev is a Managing Director in the Global Markets division of Deutsche Bank AG, based in London, having joined this division in India in 1994. His assignments have included building a leading financial markets business for the bank in India, managing the Bank's money markets trading and liquidity across Asia-Pacific, being COO for the Bank's Asian Global Markets business from Singapore, and being COO for the Bank's global Emerging Markets business based in London. His current assignment is as Head of Business Process Re-engineering for the new Global Markets division, the Bank's combined Debt and Equity division. Pavan is an experienced trader and structurer of currency, interest rate, and credit products. Before Deutsche Bank, he worked for 11 years at ANZ Grindlays, across India and in London.

Pavan was deeply involved in the evolution of India's currency & interest rate markets from 1993 to 1998, especially derivatives. He was a member of several RBI committees for the development of markets - Foreign Exchange markets (Sodhani Committee), Debt Markets (YV Reddy) and commodities markets (RV Gupta). He was a co-founder of FIMMDA, India's professionals association for fixed income markets, money markets and derivatives. He pioneered the introduction into India of an 'Overnight Index Swap' (OIS), now India's most liquid interest rate derivatives instrument.

Pavan pursues his interest in environmental protection in India as a Board member of the Bombay Environmental Action Group (BEAG), India, since 1998. He also set up a model rainforest restoration and eco-tourism project in Queensland, Australia.