Mr. L. Somasundaram
Mr. L. Somasundaram
Education
- PGDFM, Financial Management.
- Master of Arts (M.A.), Econometrics and Quantitative Economics.
- BA Economics.
Teaching Experience
- 23 years
Key Highlights
- Mr. L. Somasundaram is an analyst with 23 years of experience in managing and executing economic research projects of diverse nature, and delivering map-based analytics of economic parameters.
- He expertise is in conceiving, designing and implementing ICT tools for development and governance with real-time data. Earlier, he was Executive Director, Centre for Development Finance, Institute for Financial Management and Research (IFMR).
- In my earlier assignments I was a member in different committees set up by the State Planning Commission, Tamil Nadu, on state level economic planning. In IFMR, I set up the Development Metrics Programme that created the ICT tools for Development. Prior to joining IFMR, I was with Reliance Industries Limited as Economist in its Business Intelligence Unit, Chennai
- At Akara, he lead the research, product development and Governance & visual analytics solutions I have conceived and executed successful impact driving projects in the areas of Water & Sanitation, Urban Governance, economic clusters, industrial and urban water supply, solid waste management and pollution monitoring projects.
- The common theme he specialise across the sectors is the removal of information asymmetry for various stakeholders and empowering them to make informed decisions.
- Over the last 5 years, he have taken up mentoring of startups. My focus is on value chain, business strategy and entrepreneurial finance.