Ritu Kalra

Ritu is the Treasury Director and Special Advisor to the Executive Vice President of Harvard University. Previously, she was a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs, where she ran the Western Region Public Sector and Infrastructure as well as Higher Education and Nonprofit finance practices within the Investment Banking Division. In the finance sector for over twenty years, Ritu took a brief detour in between her first and second decade in banking to work as a business reporter at the Hartford Courant.

Ritu has provided strategic advising to educational organizations, nonprofits, and state and local governments through her work at Goldman Sachs. Ritu earned a BS in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1996 and an MA in Journalism from New York University in 2004.