Rajrishi Singhal has been a senior journalist, a banker and a public policy analyst-cum-consultant. He was Executive Editor at The Economic Times, Consulting Editor with Mint, Head (Policy, Research & Strategy) at a private sector bank and Senior Fellow for Geoeconomic Studies at a Mumbai-based think tank. 

Rajrishi has a Master’s degree in Economics from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and is the recipient of two prestigious fellowships: Gurukul Chevening Fellow at the London School of Economics (1997-1998), and the C. V. Starr Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study of India, University of Pennsylvania (2002).  

Rajrishi has served on two government committees appointed to re-examine policy options in areas of financial services, such as pension sector reforms. Apart from his independent consulting practice relating to financial services and public policy, he also writes a fortnightly column for Mint (called "General Disequilibrium") and another one on financial services for moneycontrol.com.