On March 3, Akshay Mathur, Head of Research, Gateway House participated in a panel discussion titled Global Economy: Addressing the Challenges at the Germany, India, Brazil and South Africa (GIBSA) Dialogue held at India International Centre, New Delhi. The dialogue was hosted by the Institute of Peace and Conflict Studies in collaboration with the Institute for International and Security Affairs, Berlin; Centro de Brasileiro de Relações Internacionais (CEBRI), Rio de Janeiro; and the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), Pretoria. The overarching theme was Af-Pak, Global Economy and Maritime Security.
Akshay Mathur is the Head of Research at Gateway House: Indian Council on Global Relations. Prior to this, he was Principal Architect, Strategy and Architecture group of the multi-billion dollar Institutional and Retail Brokerage division, Fidelity Investments, Boston. He has an MBA (Honours) from Boston University with concentration in Finance and Business Analysis with a focus on Global Business and Global Macro Economics. He has a B.Sc. in Computer Science (Cum Laude) from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst where his research focused on the application of Artificial Intelligence to Combinatorial Mathematics. He is also the Co-Founder of Aasra, an NGO based in Rajasthan