Sujit Sahgal is a financial markets professional with over
28 years of experience in various investment banks in India
and rest of Asia. Over the years, his area of work has included
macroeconomics, investment strategy, sector and company
research, equity sales as well as investing globally across asset
classes. He completed his MBA in 1993 and has spent most
of his working career based in Singapore, having recently
returned to India.
During his research days, he was ranked number 1 analyst
for global IT services research by Institutional Investor. He
was also consistently ranked as a top-three analyst in Asia
by Asiamoney and Institutional Investor. Among various
financial institutions, he has spent close to a decade with UBS
AG and ran his own global macro, multi-strategy hedge fund
from Singapore for a few years. He spent nearly 12 years With HSBC and his last role there was as head of institutional equities for
HSBC India.
He is the author of the book A Wall Street View of Rural
India: A Banker’s Diary of a Decade of Road Trips (June
2020). The book captures his observations, insights and views
emanating from nearly a dozen rural trips done over the last
10 years across 7–8 states of India and meeting hundreds of
farmers covering close to a hundred villages. The trips included
300–400 foreign investors from over 10 countries who were
trying to gauge the overall health of the rural economy, which
is such an important part of India.

Sujit is the founder of two agri startups - Rural Readings - a monthly newsletter based on survey of about 50,000 farmers across India and The Farmer's Grid - a tech based farmer advisory firm.
Apart from his interests in the financial markets and rural
India, he is a travel and trekking enthusiast. He is a serious
poet of Urdu and writes under the pen name Haasil.

He regularly recites in mushairas and Urdu literature festivals
all over India and internationally.
He also loves horseback riding, skiing and a round of golf in
his free time.