Our Team

Aarti Lakhotia

Aarti Lakhotia

Aarti has worked with top multinationals like PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), EXL Services and HCL Technologies Ltd. Aarti began her career with PwC where she developed expertise and analytical skills in the Financial and Technology sector.

Akshata Gupta

Akshata Gupta

Akshata Gupta is a Healthcare Consultant with over three years of work experience in the health and social development sector. She specializes in health business administration, resource allocation and priority setting, critical thinking, and health economics.

Bijender Sharma

Bijender Sharma

Bijender Sharma is a Graduate in Commerce from the University of Delhi. Bijender has an overall work experience of 28 years. Before joining TARI, he worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) for more than 18 years. In PwC, he was an Assistant Manager (Finance & Accounts).

Gayathri Venkatraman

Gayathri Venkatraman

Gayathri worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers for over 13 years before she joined TARI. She has vast experience of dealing with large databases and supporting quantitative research and projects that use analytics as a tool.

Kaushik Dutta

Kaushik Dutta

Kaushik is the founding co-director of Thought Arbitrage Research Institute (TARI) which is a not for profit organisation set up under Section 25 of the Indian Companies Act. TARI is one of the few privately-funded, independent and non-partisan Indian think-tanks on Corporate Governance, Sustainability, Economics and Public Policy. He has a graduate degree from St.

Kshama V Kaushik

Kshama V Kaushik

Kshama V Kaushik holds an Honours degree in Commerce from Delhi University and is a Fellow member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India. She has worked with some of the top consulting firms and Indian companies over the past 33 years.

Kushagra Sharma

Kushagra Sharma

Kushagra Sharma is a Masters in Economics with specialization in Environmental Economics from the Madras School of Economics (MSE) and has completed his Bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Delhi. His project work during his Masters degree included qualitative research on Corporate Social Responsibility and WASH practices in India.

Naveen Srivastav

Naveen Srivastav

Dr. Naveen Srivastava earned his doctorate from IIT Roorkee. In addition, he earned a number of programs/certificates from prestigious international organisations and universities, including the IMF, ADB, Wharton School of Business, Indian School of Business, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Erasmus University, and Duke University.

Niladri Roy

Niladri Roy

Niladri is an experienced professional in the areas of Performance Improvement and Value Creation. He has worked across multiple sectors and geographies in his two decades of professional experience enabling leaders and organization improve their practices around performance, organization effectiveness thereby improving business results.

Prachi Dutta

Prachi Dutta

Prachi Dutta is our External Legal Counsel. She is a dual qualified lawyer, eligible to practice law in New York and India. Prachi holds a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the University of Chicago, a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) from Jindal Global Law School, and a Bachelor of Arts in History from Hindu College, Delhi University.

P. Ramakrishna

P. Ramakrishna

P. Ramakrishna has been with TARI since its inception. He has more than 3 decades of rich experience across various domains including business development & strategic planning, auditing, accounting, process controls, risk management, corporate governance and compliance, tax structuring and succession planning, functional expertise in deal making, valuations, due diligence.

Rosanna M. Vetticad

Rosanna M. Vetticad

Rosanna is a Chartered Accountant with over 17 years work experience, more than 12 of which were with PricewaterhouseCoopers. She is proficient in understanding business variables, values, principles and practices of corporate governance. Her domain knowledge spans across finance, external reporting and controls.

Souvik Sanyal

Souvik Sanyal

Souvik is a qualified lawyer engaged with Thought Arbitrage as a Principal Consultant, in projects on corporate governance, public policy and legal analysis. His areas of work cover research-based advisory on various aspects of corporate governance, apart from contributing to general research initiatives of the firm.

Venkat Rangan

Venkat Rangan

Venkat Rangan is a Post Graduate in Business Administration, Commerce and Graduate in Law. He has qualified CS Intermediate Examination.
Venkat has an overall work experience of 29 years. Before Joining TARI, he worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) for more than 19 years. In PwC, he was a Senior Manager (Finance & Accounts).