Mukesh Agarwal, CEO – Indices & Data, National Stock Exchange of India Limited (NSE)

Mukesh is a business leader with three decades of experience in financial services industry including Indices, Market Data, Mutual funds Research, Equity Research, Fixed Income Research, Industry Research & Credit Ratings. Mukesh has been part of various regulatory committees/Sub-committees in India on topics related to Indices, Bond Markets, Mutual Funds, Passive funds etc.
Mukesh is presently the Managing Director & CEO of NSE Indices Ltd. and NSE Data & Analytics Ltd., wholly owned subsidiaries of National Stock Exchange of India (NSE), India’s largest stock exchange. NSE is also the world’s largest derivatives exchange by trading volume (contracts) as per the statistics maintained by Futures Industry Association (FIA) for calendar year 2023. NSE is ranked 3rd in the world in the cash equities by number of trades as per the statistics maintained by the World Federation of Exchanges (WFE) for calendar year 2023.

Previously, Mukesh was President at CRISIL Limited, a Standard & Poor’s company, and was leading their India Research business with full P&L responsibility. He worked with CRISIL for 20 years in various functions including Credit Ratings for 15 years.

Mukesh has a Masters Degree in Management studies from S.P. Jain Institute of Management & Research, Mumbai, India and Bachelors Degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS), Pilani, Rajasthan, India.