Kunal Kumar Kundu
M.Sc (Eco), PGDBM (Finance), PGDERA
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Originally from Kolkata (India), I am now heading the Indian operations Roubini Global Economics in New Delhi, India. Currently the focus of RGE India is to conduct global macro research in conjunction with RGE economists sitting in various parts of the world. Earlier I was the Head of Economic Research within the Knowledge Service (KS) division of Infosys Technologies Ltd in Bangalore (India). I have been living in this city since August 2005. I have now checked into Delhi for the second time.

I have also had the privilege of living in Mumbai and Chennai as well (apart from the above mentioned cities). However, I am a true blue Bengali having lived in Kolkata (erstwhile Calcutta) for about 24 years. Essentially, I have been in Kolkata till I completed my Master’s in Economics from the University of Calcutta and came back again to live in this city for a few years as a professional.

Looking back at those wonderful years I feel lucky to be part of a city, part of a culture that does stand out. Nowadays, of course, Kolkata stands out for all the wrong reasons. Hence while Kolkata (with all its contradictions) is so close to my heart, I am not sure I would be able to go back to the city as a professional. The leftists have been ruling the state for more than three decades. However, the decadence that started more than a decade back has led to the state of West Bengal to a path of ruin. The new govenrment under the leadership of Ms. Mamata Bannerjee romped home to power on the plank of change. We were all enthused and looked at her as a messiah of change. Unfortunately, after a few months, our hopes have been shattered. Change we are seeing for sure, but not the ones we desired. A true leader should have been able to forget the traumatic past, apply soothing balm on the pains and take everybody along with, in the path of progress. Unfortunately, the quality of leadership displayed thus far holds out little hope for real change. Its painful, but being an eternal optimist, keeping fingers crossed.

I started my career with Dalal Street Investment Journal in New Delhi (India), way back in 1996 soon after I completed my study in finance. Those years at Dalal Street Journal turned out to be wonderful learning experience for me, notwithstanding the fact that, at times, I had to endure delayed salary for months. Subsequently I moved to a few other organizations like GIO Sanmar (AMP Sanmar at a later stage), Fitch Ratings & Indo German Chamber of Commerce. A high point during this period of time has been the conception and creation of IGCC 15 Index, a market capitalization index of 15 Indo German Companies (minimum German share holding of 26%) whose shares are listed in either BSE or NSE or both. Subsequently I joined Infosys as Lead Economist of European Economic research for our client, a global banking major and then took up the onus of setting a seperate economic research practice within Infosys.

While I have been exposed to various facets of financial research, the journalist in me still remains alive. The love for writing and a passion for financial research have found expression in various articles and reports I have been writing for long.

With the aim of providing a common platform to all my thoughts that I have penned down over the years, I have launched this website. It includes all the articles that I could manage to find online. I have started blogging as well. Hope you would enjoy reading these as much as I enjoy writing.

Please feel free to share with me boquets and brickbats. I am contactable at kunalkundu@yahoo.com