Speaker Details
Alka Banerjee
Vice President of Global Equities, S&P Indices
Alka Banerjee is vice president of Global Equities within Standard & Poor’s Index Services group. Alka is responsible for the design and methodology governing these indices. She oversees the creation and management of Standard & Poor's global indices, focusing on creating new benchmarks for international equity markets and promoting their use amongst global clients.
Alka’s special areas of interest are emerging and frontier markets, Islamic Finance and global REITs, and most recently ESG and carbon efficient indices.
Prior to joining Standard & Poor's in 2000, Alka worked for The Bank of New York where she was responsible for the creation, maintenance and marketing of The Bank of New York ADR Index. Before coming to the US, she worked for the State Bank of India for ten years in India.
Alka holds a Masters in Economics from Lucknow University in India and an MBA in finance from Pace University, New York.