People

Satyajit Das

Satyajit Das

Formal First Name
Satyajit
Dates
11/15/1957 - present
Location

Satyajit Das is a world-renowned financial personality with more than 40 years of experience in the financial markets. He is a former banker, corporate treasurer, and now a consultant to institutions and corporations across Australia, Asia, Europe, and North America. Das is also a famous author who has published a number of reference books on derivatives and risk management. He has been a featured speaker at financial and investment conferences around the world.

  • Das writes the Das Capital Column in The Independent. 
  • In 2014, Bloomberg named him as one of the fifty most influential financial thinkers in the world.
  • He is a frequent interviewee and widely quoted in the financial press in the USA, Canada, Europe, South Africa, Australia, NZ, and Asia.
  • His blogs and articles can be found at Roubini Global Economics, Minyanville, Eurointelligence, and PrudentBear.
  • As early as 2006, he presciently anticipated the 2008 global financial crisis.
  • He accurately described the evolution of the post-crisis world: sluggish growth, disinflation, the increasing ineffectiveness of policy measures, and retrenchment from globalization
  • He identified the increasing political and social dimensions of the crisis, especially the growing democracy deficit and the end of trust. 
  • In 2016, in the context of the SARS and Ebola epidemics, he drew attention to the risk of disease and the lack of preparedness to deal with a global health crisis.
  • He has appeared as a guest on Real Vision.