Ajit Pai is Strategy Lead Partner, Government and Public Sector, at EY’s Strategy and Transactions Group. Previously, he was Distinguished Expert, NITI Aayog, where he headed Economics & Finance and oversaw Public Disinvestment and performance of Central Public Sector Enterprises. He was also Consultant to the Vice Chairperson of NITI Aayog, the nodal officer for the Ministry of Finance, its subsidiary departments, and handled matters related to the World Bank, IFC, IMF, ADB, NDB, OECD, and the G20. Mr. Pai is also Chairman, Delhi Urban Art Commission (DUAC), a statutory body created by an Act of Parliament in 1973, to advise the Government of India in the matter of preserving, developing and maintaining the aesthetic quality of urban and environmental design. Prior to this, he had a career in the private sector including working internationally at firms like McKinsey, Lazard, Thomas Weisel Partners and Stifel Financial, the latter two as Managing Director. He has been awarded over six years an unprecedented five #1 and one #2 Starmine Awards in the Forbes/Financial Times World’s Best Analysts Survey for forecast accuracy.

Mr. Pai holds a B.Arch. from the School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi, a M.Arch. from the Yale School of Architecture and a MBA from the Yale School of Management. He attended Yale University as a Tata Scholar and also served as a John M Olin Fellow for research in markets and regulatory behavior. 
 

Mr. Pai is on the Executive Committee of the Indian Police Foundation, on the Advisory Board of the Future Institute, and is registered with the Council of Architecture