Ashish Chauhan

Ashish (58) works as the CEO of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) since 2022. He is also the Chancellor of University of Allahabad, Board member IIM Calcutta, Universities Grants Commission (UGC). Earlier, Ashish served at BSE (Bombay Stock Exchange, as CEO for 10 years), Chairman NIT Manipur, Board member at Central Depository Services Limited (CDSL), IIM Raipur, Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Arun Jaitley NIFM, IIIT Jabalpur etc. From 2000-2009, Ashish worked as the Group Chief Information Officer (CIO) of the Reliance group, Head Public Relations (2005-08) and CEO of cricket team Mumbai Indians (2008-09)Ashish has won several International and Indian awards in providing the best IT solutions for different including for stock markets, petrochemicals, telecommunications etc. He also worked as the Head of Corporate Communications (2005-08)From 1993-2000 Ashish worked as a 5 member team to set up and operate National Stock Exchange (NSE). Ashish set up and operated, NSE’s equities markets from 1994 to 2000. He was instrumental in setting up initial Information Technology infrastructure including the first commercial satellite telecom network in India for NSE.Due to his work in setting up modern exchange traded financial derivatives in Indian markets at NSE, he is known as the ‘Father of Modern Financial Derivatives’ in India. He was instrumental in creating NSE-50, the largest traded index in derivatives in India, NSE’s certification in Financial Markets (NCFM), IPO through screen and several other innovations in the Indian markets.Ashish holds a B Tech in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Bombay (1989) and MBA from IIM Calcutta (1991).Ashish serves on several government and regulatory committees currently. He is a visiting faculty at Nottingham University, UK. A book titled Sthitpragya has been written on his life journey.