Soumyo Dutta

Director at Clayfin

Soumyo Dutta is the Treasurer of Reliance Industries Limited, and is responsible for management of currency and interest rate risk of the corporate balance sheet. As a part of the Corporate Treasury mandate he is also responsible for delivering the target returns on the investment portfolio, management of working capital and raising short term resources from the banking system to fund the working capital requirements of various businesses. Under his leadership, the Treasury team of Reliance Industries has won the Best Hedging Strategy award, conferred by The Corporate Treasurer and The Asian Champions Award and the Best Treasury Team Award for any Asian Conglomerate, conferred by The Asset Triple A in 2015. In his earlier role, he was a Managing Director in Citibank’s Global Financial Markets business. His responsibilities included managing the FX & Interest Rates Trading business and Balance Sheet Liquidity and Asset-Liability Management for Citigroup South Asia. Over the years, Soumyo has been an active member of several working groups and market reforms committees constituted by RBI and SEBI. He had been a member of the Gandhi Committee and the Working Group on Enhancing Liquidity in the Government Securities and Interest Rate Derivatives Markets constituted by RBI in 2012 and The Committee on Rationalization of Investment Routes and Monitoring of Foreign Portfolio Investments constituted by SEBI in 2016. Soumyo has earned his B.Tech degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and is a silver medallist from Indian Institute of Management.