Gaurav Tiwari is a tech-savvy global leader in business transformation with significant experience in enterprise risk management and compliance strategy within the banking/financial services industry. He is a passionate builder of best-in-class strategic frameworks enabling organizations to succeed in a competitive and evolving marketplace. His background includes a variety of scholarly, entrepreneurial, political, and business areas. He is considered a trusted advisor and team leader focused on creating a lasting impact. Currently based in the Transformation Office at the Boston headquarters of State Street Bank & Trust Company (the second oldest continually operating bank in the U.S.), he is leading the transformation of the Three Lines of Defense functions. He joined State Street in 2012 and has also served as a Foreign Exchange Compliance Officer in the bank’s capital markets division, with global responsibilities covering risk and control assessment, regulatory strategies, and systems enforcement. He has been selected for the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce’s Boston’s Future Leaders Program, one of approximately 70 leaders under the age of 40 selected across a variety of industries. The year-long program provides participants with hands-on projects and workshops led by faculty from Harvard Business School on topics including management, inclusive leadership, social responsibility, and effective communications. The program also provides participants an opportunity to foster genuine relationships with peers and senior executives in the Boston business community.
Gaurav is highly sought-after worldwide to teach and instruct about risk management in banking, and to serve on industry and academic forums. He was invited to serve as practitioner faculty at the department of economics at George Mason University, to lead a workshop on Risk Management, Financial Crimes, and Transnational Compliance. At the Institute for International Finance Risk Forum in Tokyo, Japan, he was invited to share his expert views on developing and leading global compliance programs in financial services. He has served as a member of SIFMA's working groups on Volcker Rule Compliance and Compliance & Regulatory Policy Group and for the Institute for International Finance working groups on Digital Finance and Machine Learning Governance in Risk Management.
Prior to State Street, he was the Hernando de Soto Fellow at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. As the De Soto Fellow, he authored the International Property Rights Index, which quantifies and ranks more than 120 countries on the security of intellectual and physical property rights. He was a member of the founding team of the award-winning Sanergy startup, aimed at building sustainable sanitation solutions in Kenya’s slums when he simultaneously enrolled at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government as a cross registrant during his tenure at the Fletcher School. With his leadership, Sanergy won both the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) $100K, and Tufts University $100K entrepreneurial awards. Gaurav is very aware of the powerful and immediate impact of mentorship - he has been fortunate to have had incredible mentors in his professional and academic journey - a case in point and relevant to The Trebuchet, Sherman's mentorship afforded Gaurav numerous research and professional opportunities which have accelerated his growth trajectory. In 2011-12, the Institute for Global Leadership at Tufts University, which was chaired by Sherman at the time, awarded Gaurav the highly competitive Empower Fellowship, enabling him to conduct research in Peru and India on microfinance and emerging technologies in urban slums.
Prior to his entry into the Fletcher School, he was a Research Associate in Geoeconomics at the New York based Council on Foreign Relations, the United States’ premier foreign policy think-tank. His contributions include enhancing the economics training curriculum of our nation's Foreign Service Officers at the US Department of State, critical to improving the ability of our nation's diplomats to influence international affairs. At the Council, he supported former U.S. diplomats, economists and international finance experts on key U.S. policy matters at the intersection of financial markets, international affairs, and American economic competitiveness.
Born and raised in New Delhi, India, Gaurav holds a Masters degree in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University, a second Masters degree in Economics from the University of Missouri in Saint Louis. His autobiographical statement An Immigrant’s Tale, is a reflection on his immense appreciation of the immigrant experience in the U.S., and about global citizenship. Passionate about supporting programs that enable greater access to educational opportunities for the youth, he serves as a Boston jury member for the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation's "Coolidge Scholarship" - the scholarship is among the most competitive and prestigious undergraduate awards in America, offering a full-ride for four years of study to any college or university in America.