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Royston Braganza
Grameen Impact India
CEO
Description
Royston joined Grameen Capital in 2007 to launch the organization as CEO. He currently oversees all aspects of operations in India.
Grameen Capital, founded by Grameen Foundation USA, IFMR Trust and Citigroup, is a first of its kind social business enabling Microfinance Institutions and Social Enterprises wider access to the capital markets. Grameen Capital is part of the global Grameen family of companies, the flagship of which is the Nobel Prize-winning Grameen Bank founded by Nobel Laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus.
To realise his dream of a “Capital-with-a-Conscience” ecosystem, Royston along with Grameen Capital, recently promoted “Grameen Impact Investments India” a unique vehicle to provide debt financing to social enterprises across sectors such as affordable education and skill development, affordable healthcare, clean energy & innovation, agriculture, financial inclusion and livelihoods.
In his earlier assignment, as a Senior Vice President with HSBC, Royston was instrumental in setting up and heading HSBC’s Microfinance & Priority Sector businesses. Prior to that, he was the head of HSBC’s SME Business. Before joining HSBC, Royston worked in Citibank India for over 8 years in various assignments across both the Consumer Bank and the Corporate Bank.
In addition to being the current Chair of the Impact Investors Council of India & the former Chair of Sa-Dhan, whose members have over 50 million women micro- entrepreneurs, he serves on many boards and advisory bodies, including Grameen Foundation India, Inclusive Business Action Network (iBAN), FICCI Financial Inclusion Committee, CII National Committee on NBFCs, the United Nations Microfinance Resource Group and Banking & Finance Committee of the Indian Merchant Chambers. He has been invited to address various programs in India and globally, to promote impact investment and blended finance as a sustainable tool to eradicate poverty, and to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. In September 2018, Royston addressed a high-level event at the 73rd session of the UN General Assembly in New York on the Sustainable Development Goals, and more recently on multiple taskforces of India’s G20 Presidency and has just been appointed to the Brazil G20 Task Force on Sustainable Food Systems and Agriculture.
The London-based Finance Monthly publication named Royston in their 2013 Global CEO Award Winners list as Top 4 CEOs in Asia, and Top 2 in India, the other one being Kumar Mangalam Birla. He has also been awarded the Global CSR Leadership award by World CSR Congress and the Power of One Award by the Archdiocese of Bombay.
Royston has done his Masters in Management Studies from the prestigious Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai.
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