Summary
Gaurav Agrawal is an Indian Administrative Service officer based in Jaipur with nine years of professional experience bridging public administration, finance, and technology. Before joining the IAS in 2013, he delivered measurable trading success at Citigroup’s Emerging Markets Credit desk, generating multi-million dollar profits by trading credit, currencies, and rates across Asia. He also has a research background in machine learning and computer vision from roles at IBM India Research Labs and the Max Planck Institute, where he developed a deployed call-center classifier and applied SVMs to vision problems. An IIT Kanpur computer science graduate with an MBA in Finance and Economics from IIM Lucknow, he combines technical depth with economic and policy insight. That rare mix enables him to approach governance challenges with data-driven methods and market-savvy risk assessment. He’s comfortable translating complex technical concepts for policy implementation while retaining hands-on familiarity with ML and quantitative trading techniques.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
MBA, Finance, Economics, 9.25/10, MBA, Finance, Economics, 9.25/10 at Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow