Dr. Nachiket Mor is President of the ICICI Foundation for Inclusive Growth and Chairman of IFMR Trust. Dr. Mor is a Yale World Fellow (2004); has a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania with a specialization in Finance from the Wharton School, a Masters degree in Management from the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad, and an undergraduate degree in Physics from Mumbai University. While completing his Ph.D., he was associated with a Philadelphia based hedge fund (Quantitative Financial Strategies) for three years. He has worked with ICICI since 1987 in a variety of jobs, including Corporate Planning, Project Finance, Treasury and Rural Banking and was a member of its Board from 2001-2007.He is currently President of the ICICI Foundation for Inclusive Growth. In addition to his work within ICICI, he is a member of the Boards of: Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR), CARE USA and International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).

 IFMR Trust is a private trust whose mission is to ensure that every individual and every enterprise has complete access to financial services. They focus on under-served regions of rural India.

 

Consistent with this vision, IFMR Trust has promoted four key ventures:

IFMR brings to their efforts solid expertise in the design, delivery and scaling of financial services and a deep understanding of mainstream markets. Many of their efforts are guided by practical insights gained from action-research conducted at specialized centers of their affiliate, the Institute Financial Management and Research (IFMR) in Chennai.