Ms. Shilpa Kumar

MD, India, BII

“Shilpa Kumar is Managing Director and Head of India at British International Investment India Advisers. Based in Mumbai, Shilpa will oversee the DFI's operations in India to deliver climate finance and investments designed to foster inclusive growth.
She has over three decades of leadership experience in the banking and financial services sector as well as in building businesses and working with entrepreneurs and policy makers.
She was a Partner at Omidyar Network India, a social impact investment fund, where she directed strategy and investments across the areas of Responsible Tech, Cities & Climate, and Inclusive Property initiatives. She also led policy work in Financial Inclusion.
Prior to that, Shilpa spent a large part of her career with the ICICI Bank group (India’s largest private sector bank) particularly in building and shaping the bank’s treasury and global markets business. She served as MD and CEO of ICICI Securities, India’s pioneering digital equity brokerage and a leading investment bank in the country. She has held board positions in several organisations including ICICI Securities, ICICI Securities Prime Dealership, ICICI Home Finance, Clearing Corporation of India and National Investment and Infrastructure Fund. She has also served on regulatory committees and held positions in industry bodies like FIMMDA (as Chairperson) and FICCI (Co-Chair, Capital Markets Committee).
Shilpa is an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Management, Kolkata.”