Keshav Gaur

Dr. Keshav Gaur is the Director of the Client Solutions and Structuring team in the World Bank Group’s Treasury that provides financial expertise and innovation using fixed income products including derivatives, structured finance, debt capital market and local currency financing solutions to WBG’s clients in addition to providing advisory services to clients and regulators. The team also does Asset Liability Management through hedging market risks arising from these fixed income products.

Dr. Gaur, based in WBG Headquarters in Washington DC, USA, is the global head of the team located across Singapore, London, Dakar, Nairobi, and Washington DC. He has been in finance profession for more than two decades and previously was Chief Derivative Products Officer at IFC. He has led several groundbreaking local currency derivatives and capital market transactions, including the establishment of a yield curve for the offshore India rupee markets (masala bonds). Prior to joining IFC he was a member of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), serving as Deputy Commissioner in India.

He holds a PhD in Finance (George Washington University), Masters in Economic Policy Management (Columbia University, New York), and Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering (Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi).