Saurabh Narain is Chief Executive of National Community Investment Fund. He joined NCIF in 2003, and under his leadership, the fund has become the largest equity investor (in numbers) in CDFI banks in the country, grown assets under management to $150 million (including $128 million in NMTC allocations) and pioneered the development of the Social Performance Metrics^SM.

He is involved in policy and advocacy for the industry through his board positions in the CDFI Coalition (http://www.cdfi.org) and memberships of the Federal Reserve Board’s Consumer Advisory Council (2008-10) and the Minority Depository Institutions Advisory Council of the Officer of Thrift Supervision (2009-11). NCIF is also a member of the Investors Council of the Global Impact Investing Network and the Strategy and Adoption Committee of the Impact Rating and Investing System led by the Rockefeller Foundation.

Prior to NCIF, he has had extensive experience in capital markets and risk management having worked at Bank of America for almost 17 years based in Asia and the US. Towards the end of his tenure in Hong Kong, he was Head of Marketing, Non-Japan Asia for Global Derivative Products. He has done business in almost 10 countries in Asia/US dealing with financial institutions, global multinational corporations and governments.

He is interested in inclusive finance and the microfinance movement in India. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the Professional Risk Managers’ International Association, Chicago Chapter (http://www.prmia.org) and is a regular speaker in industry conferences.

Saurabh is a graduate of the ABA Graduate Stonier School of Banking (2007), an MBA from Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad (1985), and a Bachelors of Arts (Honors) in Economics from St. Stephens College, University of Delhi (1983), India.