Shonali Gupta has twenty years of trading experience at Wall Street banks in New York City. She has worked at Lehman Brothers, Citigroup and Nomura, most recently heading a global team managing the Interest Rates Volatility trading business at the Royal Bank of Canada.
Deeply experienced in the rates markets, Shonali has engaged with major institutional clients including mortgage originators and servicers, large insurance companies, hedge funds, corporates and pensions to provide derivative solutions to manage interest rate exposure. Shonali has led the transformation of trading businesses through significant product and regulatory changes, navigating the subprime crisis, the Federal Reserve policy cycles and the transition of the rates markets to alternative reference rates. With a keen eye for economic data and policy action and a solid foundation in mathematical finance, Shonali has managed complicated derivatives portfolios and recycled large amounts of risk in a fast-moving market, successfully growing her businesses to achieve record revenues, while sustainably capturing market share and cementing a reputation of trust, credibility and transparency with clients.
Through her professional career, Shonali has participated in leadership initiatives, diversity committees and advancement panel discussions, demonstrating her involvement in the whole institution. She takes pride in building strong teams and coaching junior traders through tumultuous market cycles. Her mentees have gone on to build successful careers.
Concurrent with her work in the industry, Shonali has served as Adjunct Faculty at the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. Shonali currently teaches derivatives courses at NYU as Adjunct Faculty for the Masters in Financial Engineering program and also serves as an advisor to students for trading competitions. Shonali serves on the Board of Manhattan Youth, a nonprofit that provides academic and sports enrichment for children in Lower Manhattan and on the Board of the Society of Young Inklings, a nonprofit that mentors youth writers across the US.