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Bse chief ashish chauhan

to lead allahabad University

as chancellor

Top finance leader to appear on Radio Zindagi’s Voices show on Sunday, June 6

Our Bureau ers of at NSE (National stock
Mumbai exchange) and is considered
the father of modern finan-
shish Chauhan, chief cial derivatives in India due
executive officer of to his work there from 1993-
Athe Bombay Stock 2000. He is also the creator of
Exchange (BSE), has been Nifty index and was in charge
appointed as the new Chan- of creating the first screen-
cellor of Allahabad Univer- based trading. He started his
sity. President and Visitor of career as a banker with IDBI.
Allahabad University Ram- A serial entrepreneur,
nath Kovind appointed him Chauhan is considered
the Chancellor for a five- amongst the foremost ex-
year term last week. perts in the fields of fintech,
market microstructure, trans-
chauhan has thanked action processing, corporate
governance, finance, regula-
the President, Prime tory policies, business, tech-

Minister and minister for nology, cricket, and Indian
social issues. He has spoken
education for appointing at conferences organized by

him as the chancellor of UN, WEF, WFE, UNCTAD,
OECD, Commonwealth etc.
the allahabad University, He has been a part of the pol-

which is one of the most icy committees of Ministry of
finance, Ministry of MSME,
important and the oldest CBDT, RBI, SEBI etc. He

Universities in asia set also headed the South Asia
Federation of Exchanges
up in 1887. (SAFE), consisting of 20 plus
Ashish Chauhan, exchanges.
He is a distinguished Chief Executive Officer - Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) Chauhan has won sev-
visiting faculty at Ryerson eral prestigious Indian and
University in Toronto and Ashish helped BSE become the exchange at Gift city, etc. international awards over
Honorary Professor at Not- fastest exchange in the world Chauhan acted as the CEO last 3 decades including Dig-
tingham University Business with 6 microseconds response of IPL cricket team Mumbai In- ital Icon of the Year, Asian
School. time, completed its IPO, revived dians in its formative years and Banker, Top 50 CIOs in the
Chauhan, a technocrat its revenues, introduced mobile worked as the President and world, etc.
from IIT and IIM, currently stock trading to India, diversi- CIO of Reliance group from He has co-authored a
works as the MD and CEO fied in areas such as currency, years 2000 to 2009 in the field book titled on BSE ‘A temple
of BSE (formerly Bombay commodities and equity deriv- of IT, e-commerce, public rela- of wealth creation’. A book
Stock Exchange), with mar- atives, SME, start-ups, Mutual tions, media, telecom, sports, or- titled ‘Sthithpragya -- the
ket capitalization of listed fund distribution, IPO/bond dis- ganized retail, IPO, petrochemi- process of maintaining equi-
companies close to USD 3 tribution, insurance distribution, cals, refining, oil and gas etc. librium’ has been written on
trillion. At BSE since 2009, power trading, and international Chauhan is one of the found- his life journey.

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