Head of Research and Gateway House Geo-economics Fellow, Gateway House,

Akshay worked with Fidelity Investments in Boston for over 7 years as a Principal Architect in the Strategy and Architecture group of the multi-billion dollar Institutional and Retail Brokerage division where he was an expert in Research and Strategy Formulation.

He has an MBA (Honours) from Boston University with concentration in Finance and Business Analysis and research focused on Global Business and Global Macro Economics. He has a B.S. in Computer Science (Cum Laude) from University of Massachusetts at Amherst where his research focused on the application of Artificial Intelligence to Combinatorial Mathematics. Akshay is an alumni of Mayo College and the co-founder of an NGO called Aasra based in Rajasthan.