Question : Who has recently(November 2021) been appointed as senior advisor of Global investment firm KKR ?
a. K V Kamath
b. S N Raghuvanshi
c. Aarti Chhabra
d. Habil Khorakiwala
Ans. a.
Related facts —
- Global investment firm KKR has recently(November 2021) appointed KV Kamath as a senior advisor to KKR India.
- In India, KKR has committed approximately $7 billion of equity in asset classes that include private equity and infrastructure.
- Most recently, he served as the first president of the New Development Bank, a multilateral development bank established by the BRICS nations, from its founding in 2015 until 2020.
- Prior to that, Kamath was chairman of ICICI Bank and Infosys Limited.
- In October 2021, he was appointed as the chairperson of India’s newly established National Bank for Financing Infrastructure and Development(NBFID).
- It is noteworthy that it(NBFID) was created to support the development of long-term infrastructure financing in the country.
- A Padma Bhushan awardee, Kamath has additionally served as the president of CII, and was a co-chair of the WEF’s annual meeting in Davos.