Geerja Shankar (Rajah) Ramdaursingh 2026 speakers
Chief Executive Officer , Economic Development Board (Mauritius)
“Rajah Ramdaursingh has worked for some forty years in the domestic and international financial sectors, in London and across emerging markets. He attended the United World College of the Atlantic in Wales from 1978 and the Université de Paris II from 1981, qualified as a Chartered Accountant with KPMG in London in 1988, and completed his MBA at Warwick Business School.
At the Commonwealth Development Corporation, now Actis, he led equity, corporate finance and project finance transactions across many sectors, and helped establish private equity funds in Asia, Central America and Africa. He managed a fund listed on the London Stock Exchange as well as the first venture capital fund set up in Mauritius and represented the Corporation on boards overseeing investments across the three regions.
Returning to Mauritius in 2000, he set up and ran an advisory practice alongside a leading accountancy and financial advisory firm, providing strategic advice, corporate finance, privatisation reviews and transaction advisory services to domestic and international clients, and to multilateral agencies in Mauritius and across Africa, until 2007.
In 2007 he was appointed Chairman and Adviser to the board of the State Bank of Mauritius, the country’s second largest bank and a company listed on the Stock Exchange of Mauritius. He chaired the Strategy, Nomination and Credit Committees and the boards of the group’s non-banking financial companies, with oversight of operations spanning Mauritius, India and Madagascar. Under his tenure the group transformed its strategy, governance, service levels, human capital and product range. He also established the SBM Scholarship scheme, which has since funded around 3,000 Mauritian students, helping to deserve young people overcome financial constraints to pursue tertiary education.
From 2011 to 2016 he served as Director of Strategy and Projects at the Currimjee Jeewanjee Group, one of the country’s leading conglomerates, guiding strategic direction and major investments and divestments, and remained on the group’s holding, telecommunications, media and hospitality boards until 2019. He went on to serve on the board of a leading private equity fund investing in Asia from 2019 to 2026 and continues to advise on and manage listed equity investment portfolios.”
