Ms. Ritu Chawla Kochhar
- Ms. Ritu Chawla Kochhar is the India Head at Spencer Stuart.
- She has around three decades of experience across Board and leadership advisory, executive search, business consulting and capital markets.
- She has held various roles in financial services firms, including institutional equities sales at JP Morgan in Mumbai, where she advised private equity and US based institutional funds investing in Indian equities.
- Earlier, she was a senior economist at Bear Stearns, focusing on Indian markets within the firm’s equity research business in New York.
- She has also worked in the insurance space with John Hancock Financial Services in Boston, and began her career with Arthur Andersen in the audit and business consulting practice in New Delhi.
- She is a member of the Corporate Governance council set up by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), and the Risk Taskforce set up by GRMI in association with FICCI. Earlier she was a co-chair of the Women’s Corporate Director forum in India.
- She is a Chartered Accountant from ICAI and a CPA from the U.S. She received an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School and a Bachelor of Commerce from Shriram College of Commerce in Delhi.
