Meet Jamal Mecklai
Mr. Jamal Mecklai, has been CEO, Mecklai Financial since 1985. Mecklai Financial is a professional risk management consulting company, which uniquely blends the skills of the best market practitioners with in-depth understanding of business processes and risk. The firm has over 50 advisers and consultants, working out of 6 offices across India.
He is widely considered to be one of the leading authorities on market risk management in India. He has been appointed to several key committees by the Government of India, most notably the Sodhani Committee set up by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in 1994-95 to suggest methods of deepening and widening the local foreign exchange market, and the R.V. Gupta Committee of the RBI (1997) to assess whether and how Indian companies should access international markets to hedge commodity price risk. He has done a wide array of consulting work on policy issues (including work for the World Bank on a special assignment for the Forward Markets Commission in India) and on risk and risk management (for some of the best corporate names in India, both financial and non-financial, including Ashok Leyland Ltd., Exim Bank of India, HUDCO, Infosys Technologies Ltd., and JSW Ltd.) He is a key adviser to Jamaat, a gallery dealing in contemporary Indian art in Mumbai; is on the International Advisory Panel of George Eastman House, a leading photography museum in Rochester, New York; and is on the jury panel of the Visual Arts Gallery of the India Habitat Centre in New Delhi. |
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