Rajiv C. Lochan is the Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer of Kasturi and Sons Limited (KSL), publishers of India’s most respected English language newspaper, The Hindu, and Group publications (a business daily, a local language daily, magazines and digital media and commerce products). He heads all non-editorial operations and is the first non-family member on the Board in the company’s 136-year history.

Rajiv also devotes time to the social sector in the areas of public health and financial inclusion. He is a Trustee Board member of IKP Trust, a not-for-profit organization focused on leveraging knowledge and technology to drive innovation in public health. He is also on the Board of IFMR Trust Financial Holdings, an entity focused on delivering financial products and services to the bottom of the pyramid in rural geographies in India.

Rajiv is an alumnus Partner of McKinsey’s India practice and one of the Firm’s founding Partners of its Chennai practice. At McKinsey, Rajiv served over 30 institutions, including 25 banks and financial institutions in India, South-east Asia and the US. Prior to McKinsey, Rajiv worked for American Express Company in New York, where he was most recently Director – Risk Management, responsible for credit/fraud authorizations policy formulation. Rajiv has also worked with US Airways in Arlington, VA in the schedule-planning group and was a summer intern at the World Bank in Washington, DC.

He holds an undergraduate degree from I.I.T., Madras, an MS from M.I.T., Cambridge, MA and an M.B.A. from the Columbia Business School in New York, NY.