Arbind Jha has close to three decades of experience in global financial markets and risk management, spanning market, counterparty credit, liquidity, treasury, capital, and model risk. He has held senior leadership roles at the World Bank and Goldman Sachs, working across global markets and through several major periods of financial market stress.
At the World Bank, he has served as Director and Head of Market, Counterparty, Treasury and Model Risk, providing independent risk oversight across the institution’s investment portfolios, funding and asset liability management activities, derivatives exposures, and financial models. Prior to joining the World Bank, he spent nearly two decades at Goldman Sachs in Tokyo and New York, most recently as Managing Director and Head of Market Risk and Capital Analysis for the Americas.
His experience spans interest rates, credit, mortgages and structured products, equities, currencies, commodities, emerging markets, derivatives, and private investments. Earlier in his career, he worked in the Financial Risk Management practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers in Tokyo and Hong Kong. He began his professional career as a university lecturer in engineering before moving into financial risk management.