Alumni Guest Speaker Series Spring 2016-Seminar in the Foundations of Entrepreneurship and Economic Development

Harsh Agrawal is a Managing Director with I Squared India. I Squared Capital (“ISQ”) is an independent private equity global firm specializing in infrastructure investment and management platform that focuses on energy, utilities, and transport in US, Europe, and select high growth economies based on risk-adjusted metrics across sectors and geographies. I Squared Capital is headquartered in New York, with investment and operating teams in London, Singapore, Hong Kong, and New Delhi.

Harsh has about 15 years of financial services and investing experience and currently focuses on Infrastructure Investments in Asia particularly India. Prior to joining I Squared India, Harsh was most recently an Executive Director based in India with Morgan Stanley Infrastructure (MSI), a global platform for infrastructure investments at Morgan Stanley Investment Management. During his 12-year career at Morgan Stanley, Harsh was involved in strategic transactions and financings for transportation and infrastructure companies in North America, in investing roles focusing on healthcare and industrial companies in the United States, evaluating growth capital opportunities for companies in India, and most recently financing infrastructure projects in India.

Harsh holds dual degrees in Computer Science and Economics from Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. Harsh was an EXCEL Scholar on macroeconomic and fiscal policy research and analysis in Jamaica with Professors Schumacher and Hutchinson and made presentations of his work to the senior officers at the Ministry of Finance and Planning in Jamaica.