Venkatachalam Shunmugam

· Developing and delivering workshops for capacity development among market stakeholders

· Driving policy changes in financial markets through thought leadership

· Coordination with regulators and other stakeholders for capacity development programs

· Teaching the students of PG Diploma in securities markets about Financial Markets and Commodity Markets

Working with other stakeholders to take up consultancy projects

· Leading regulatory and policy advocacy efforts

· Thought leadership in the economy, commodity / financial markets

· Index Design, maintenance, calculation and compliance administration

· Leading the publication and investor outreach efforts

· Connect academic efforts with industry needs

· Design and implement brand-building efforts for the business

· Led business development of the financial consultancy start-up and its risk advisory division.

· Coordinated with industry associations, businesses and banks in various capacities/roles.

· Worked with Chittagong Stock Exchange to restructure their HR to meet growth aspirations.

· Prepared project concept notes, collaterals, etc, as well as extended assistance the top brass.

· Steered marketing, preparation and finalisation of project reports related to banking/treasury risk management, financial institutions, markets, etc.

· Played key role in product ideation, development, and design, and policy/regulatory analysis.

· Contributed to product design and market-targeting, including market developmental efforts through the exchange-designed schemes.

· Provided guidance to the exchange in designing its benchmark index, which proved unique in many ways in the domestic market.

· Prepared a paper on measures for development of corporate debt markets that was presented to PMO during 2013 – Well appreciated by the then Joint Secretary – Capital Markets

· Helped the top management prepare and present/raise a number of regulatory pitches.

· Provided assistance and even directly interfaced market regulators and policymakers with market developmental, researched inputs.

· Headed the exchange’s Research & Development — commodity, fundamentals, regulatory, business, policy, etc.

· Extended expert guidance to the exchange in identifying new products and designing financial derivatives contracts.

· Led communication and outreach efforts/projects, working with national and international/ multilateral organizations such as UNCTAD in their market developmental efforts.

· Voiced the exchange’s thought leadership/ideas/views in various public fora and print media.

· Armed with market research substantiated by accurate and financial market analytics, resolved
many policy deadlocks besides working on several regulatory pitches.

• Provided analyses and reports on production-consumption to USDA-GAIN Report — a key to
  USDA global commodity statistics – Globally well-followed report by market stakeholders.
• Reports and analytics of the entire trade policy matrix of a slew of commodity complexes.
• Helped the Government of the US identify trade policy inconsistencies and worked to fittingly raise the issue with the WTO and the relevant officials of the Government of India.
• Worked intensively and extensively with importers of US goods and Indian policymakers to resolve non-tariff barriers.
• Worked with crucial US Govt. officials to identify policy barriers and effectively strategized to resolve the issues to mutually beneficial propositions.