Rashmi Dalai

Rashmi Dalai joined The Economist Group in June 2017 as a managing editor for Asia. Her work focuses on thought leadership programmes for the financial services and health-care sectors.

Ms Dalai started her career on Wall Street, with time spent in both convertible bonds sales and trading at Goldman Sachs and structured derivative products at Lehman Brothers. She left to form her own health-care consulting practice and spent over a decade advising a wide range of clients, from large university hospitals to start-ups, on business and financial strategies. Her role included taking interim chief operating officer and chief financial officer positions for clients to manage periods of high growth or other business transitions.

In 2007, Ms Dalai began splitting her time between the US and Asia (China, Indonesia and Singapore) and expanded her consulting business to include advisory on business communications strategies and global thought leadership. Prior to joining The Economist Group, she was head of strategic planning in Singapore at Weber Shandwick, a global communications and public relations firm.

Ms Dalai holds a bachelor’s degree in international affairs from Johns Hopkins University and a master’s degree in international affairs, with a concentration in international finance and banking, from Columbia University.