Mr. Ashishkumar Chauhan is the Managing Director & CEO of the National Stock Exchange of India (NSE). A technocrat from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay and Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Calcutta, he was part of the founding team of NSE. He is credited with setting up the first screen-based trading in India, mobile trading, mutual fund distribution through exchanges, markets for SME shares, satellite telecom, the NIFTY index, equity derivatives trading and many other modern developments in the Indian stock markets. He is considered as the father of modern financial derivatives in India.
Prior to joining NSE back in 2022, he was the MD and CEO of the Bombay Stock Exchange for 10 years. He is a member of the University Grants Commission and the Chancellor of the University of Allahabad. He is on the board of IIM Calcutta, Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC) and other institutions of repute. He is a faculty at Nottingham University, UK and Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada. He has also worked in the Reliance group and as the CEO of Mumbai Indians IPL cricket team in its formative years.
A book titled ‘Sthithpragya: The Process of Maintaining an Equilibrium’ addresses his life journey. He has been awarded many awards in India and abroad including the lifetime achievement award from Global Custodian at Singapore in 2023, Lifetime Achievement award in the field of Information Technology by CTO Magazine, Istanbul in 2007, 50 CIOs in the world by Information Week, US, Digital Icon of the Year, Asian Banker of the Year and many more.
Updated on: 07/04/2025
