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Place of Birth: Giridih, Jharkhand, India
About Jayant Sinha
- Jayant Sinha (born 21 April 1963) is an Indian politician who is the Member of Indian Parliament and formerly the Minister of State for Finance and the Minister of State for Civil Aviation in the Government of India.
- Sinha is currently the Chairperson for Standing Committee on Finance and a member of the Public Accounts Committee for 2019-2020.
- He has also been an investment fund manager and management consultant. In May 2014, he was elected to the Lok Sabha, representing the Bharatiya Janata Party from Hazaribagh, Jharkhand.
- In the 2019 general elections, Sinha was re-elected as Member of Parliament from the same constituency with a record majority. Sinha's prior business experience includes twelve years with McKinsey & Company as a partner in the Boston and Delhi offices.
- At McKinsey, Sinha co-led the global Software and IT Services practice.
- He was most recently a partner at Omidyar Network.
- Sinha led ON's overall investment strategy and operations in India.
- He also spent several years as a Managing Director at Courage Capital, a global special situations hedge fund. Sinha holds an M.B.A.
- with Distinction from the Harvard Business School, an M.S.
- in Energy Management & Policy from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Bachelor of Technology degree with Distinction from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi.Sinha is married to Punita Kumar-Sinha, an investment manager and former Senior Managing Director at The Blackstone Group.
- He is the son of Nilima Sinha and Yashwant Sinha, a senior Indian politician and former External Affairs Minister and Finance Minister of India.
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