I
was born in Chennai
(India) on October 5, 1963 and grew up for the most
part in Madurai
the town famous for its Meenakshi Amman Temple - about 500
kilometres, south of Chennai.
I finished my high
school (O Levels/X Std.) from Sethupathi Higher Secondary
School in 1978 and was among the first batch of students who
joined pre-university after X Standard (10+2+3) in Tamil Nadu.
For higher secondary education, I moved to Railway Mixed Higher
Secondary School. The simple reason was that the school offered
courses in Commerce, Accountancy and Mathematics.
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For
my Bachelor's degree, I joined The
American College in 1980. One of the popular alumni
of the college is the Tamil film comedian, Vivek.
Drawing inspiration from the plans of friends who were preparing
for the Common Admissions Test of the Indian Institutes of
Management, I began preparing myself and appeared for the
entrance exam in December 1982. As luck would have it, I was
selected to join the Indian
Institute of Management in Ahmedabad
It is not clear
whether history would record me as the youngest student of
the batch of 1985 or the second youngest. Suffice to say that
at a ripe young age of 21 years and 7 months, I joined Madras
Refineries Limited in May 1985. A Government of India undertaking,
it has since been re-christened as Chennai
Petroleum Corporation Limited .
In August 1990, left for the United States to pursue a doctoral
programme in Financial Economics at the University
of Massachusetts in Amherst - a very picturesque university
town in New England.
Successfully defended my dissertation on the 'Empirical Behaviour
of Exchange Rates' on January 29, 1994 and moved to Zurich
in March 1994 to join the Economic Research Department at
the Union Bank of Switzerland (now simply known as UBS) as
a Currency Economist.
In November 1996, I moved to Credit Suisse in Zurich and began
working in their macro and fixed income research department,
attached to the Private Banking division from January 1997.
Moved to Credit Suisse in Singapore in June 1999 and been
continuing with them since then.
There is this small personal detail that I had omitted to
mention in the narration of my life's journey above. I got
married to Ramya on January 29, 1992 at Chennai. She holds
a law degree from the Chennai Law College and a degree in
Paralegal studies from the US. We live in Singapore with our
two small children, Dhanya and Vyas.
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