Development economics

He co-founded Circle Lending, which was acquired by Richard Branson, Virgin's group, and later led Covestor, which was acquired by Interactive Brokers.

He began his career in World Bank and is both a Wharton and also an Oxford Commonwealth Scholar, holding an MSC in Development Economics and DPhil in Management from the University of Oxford.

Ashish, thank you for joining, and welcome to the Oxford Policy Pod.

It's a pleasure to be with you today.

So in this, um, another, like, experience that you had life in, in Oxford that also have shaped you, like, your professional pathway during, like, this, uh, these years.

Sure.

Well, I had, um, studied development economics here, and before that, I'd studied finance and economics in the US at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.

And I will tell you, Wharton and Oxford could not be more different.