Mr. Pradeep Kashyap
Executive Director of AIF

Pradeep Kashyap joined the American India Foundation as its full time Executive Director in May 2001. His specific responsibilities include the consolidation of the Foundation with respect to governance, legal, operations/ book keeping, fund raising, partnerships/alliances, Trustee management and corporate communications. 

Prior to joining AIF, Mr. Kashyap was a senior Citibank official. He worked with Citigroup/Citibank for 29 years, in various locations throughout the world. He started his career in 1972 as a Trainee in Citibank Beirut , Lebanon and went on to serve in the UAE as a Lending Officer and Treasurer. He then worked in New York as Treasurer/Transactor in the Capital Markets Group of the Western Hemisphere . He returned to the Middle East ( Bahrain ) as Regional Treasurer/Investment Bank Head for the Middle East and Africa . He was then transferred to New York in 1986 where he was Treasurer of Citibank North America, served as Deputy to the CFO of Citicorp and founded the Bank's Market Risk Policy Committee. From 1994-96 Mr. Kashyap worked in Toronto , as Co-head of Citibank Canada during 1994-96. He returned again to New York in the summer of 1996 and served in a number of senior positions in Risk Management till early 2001.

Born in Allahabad , India , Mr. Kashyap was educated in New Delhi and went on to receive a Bachelor's degree from Bangalore University and a MBA from the Indian Institute of Management , Calcutta . Mr. Kashyap and his wife Reena, live in Rye , New York and have two sons, Vir and Rana.