New leadership team takes charge of US-India Business Council


A new leadership team has taken charge of the US-India Business Council (USIBC) from January 2, 2023, to oversee its operations in New Delhi, the US Chamber of Commerce announced. Alexander Slater, who is a globally recognised expert in law, economics, and business, will serve as the managing director of USIBC, while Shreerupa Mitra, veteran of policy and government, will serve as the deputy managing director.

Ambika Sharma, USIBC’s current managing director, will move to a new role as the principal advisor to USIBC president Ambassador Atul Keshap, the Chamber said in a press release.

A new leadership team has taken charge of the US-India Business Council from January 2, 2023, to oversee its operations in New Delhi, the US Chamber of Commerce announced. Alexander Slater, who is a globally recognised expert in economics and business, will serve as USIBC’s managing director, while Shreerupa Mitra, will serve as the deputy managing director.

Slater served as USIBC’s deputy managing director in New Delhi since December 2019, managing the day-to-day operations of its India-based team, and leading its financial services, tax, and real estate vertical. During his tenure, Slater helped facilitate significant gains in USIBC membership, especially in venture capital and private equity, areas central to fuelling India’s startup ecosystem and cross-sector growth.

Mitra served as USIBC’s senior advisor in New Delhi since September 2022. With deep expertise in the government of India and strong connections to business leaders in the energy, defense, and advisory sectors, Mitra will lead USIBC’s activities around India’s G20 presidency in 2023 and support the US Chamber’s leadership in the B20.

“As the next managing director of USIBC, I’m very grateful for the opportunity to continue the organisation’s 48-year mission of strengthening trade and investment ties between India and the US,” said Slater. “During this volatile period for geopolitics and geoeconomics, I am focused on making sure we provide our members and both governments the best advice on how to capitalise on these conditions to enhance the commercial activity that underpins the bilateral relationship.”

“US- India bilateral cooperation, including trade, is broad-based and multi-sectoral. Although current geopolitical challenges will significantly impact global growth prospects, this can be a particularly fertile circumstance for India and the US to enhance trade relations and iron-out roadblocks. I feel particularly grateful to lead a team that the Government of India considers a critical stakeholder in this space,” said Mitra.

“The US-India Business Council is a trusted and powerful driver of ever closer commercial and strategic cooperation between the world’s two largest democracies,” said Keshap. “We’re ecstatic to have two policy innovators—Alexander Slater and Shreerupa Mitra—serve USIBC’s new India leadership team. Their deep expertise and substantial global networks across the public and private sectors in the US and India will power our organisation to even greater heights and serve our over two-hundred member companies well.”

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