Amit Chandra is the managing director of Bain Capital, Mumbai, and a philanthropist. He is or has been a trustee of the Tata Trusts, a founder/board member of Ashoka University, a board member of Give India and The Akanksha Foundation.
Amit is also a member of the advisory boards of Bridgespan India, the Centre for Social Impact & Philanthropy, and Swades Foundation.
In Bain Capital, Amit is a part of the firm’s leadership team in Asia.
Prior to this, he spent most of his professional career at DSP Merrill Lynch.
Amit was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2007 and was on the Asia’s Heroes of Philanthropy list by Forbes in 2016, along with his wife Archana.
