Mr Narayan Ramachandran is a writer and emerging markets investor. He is the Co-founder and Fellow of the Takshashila Foundation, a public policy school and think tank. Narayan is also the Co-chairman of Unitus Capital, India's largest social enterprise investment bank. He recently finished a full 8-year term as Chairman of RBL Bank, one of India's fastest growing banks. At RBL, he was one of the founding team members that led the transformation of the bank from a small regional bank to one that is now listed and has a national footprint.

Narayan also serves as the Chairman and co-founder of InKlude Labs, a social business enterprise working in the field of education and public health. Through InKlude Labs, Narayan works with deserving NGOs to help them scale. He is currently working on his third incubation with the Center for Wildlife Studies.

Earlier, Narayan was the Country Head of Morgan Stanley India, leading all of the Morgan Stanley group's businesses. Prior to that, he was a managing director at Rogers Casey and served as General Partner and Member of the Global Strategy Advisory Board of L Catterton Asia, a consumer focussed growth equity firm.

Narayan received a B.Tech. in chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan. Narayan holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. He is on the board of several entrepreneurial companies and foundations. Narayan is an active private equity investor in financial services, social enterprises and consumer businesses.