Centennial Group Principals

Biography: Prabhakar Narvekar, Vice-Chairman

Mr. Narvekar is vice-chairman and a founding director of the Centennial Group. He was senior advisor to the President of the Nikko Securities Co. Ltd., between 1997 and 2004. At the height of the Asian financial crisis in late 1997, Mr. Narvekar simultaneously served as Special Adviser to the Managing Director of the IMF and to the Indonesian president. He continues to provide actively advice and counsel to top economic and political leaders throughout Asia.

Previously he had held a series of senior executive positions at the International Monetary Fund in Washington D.C. He worked in that institution during the period 1953 to 1997, serving as Director of the Asian Department from 1986 to 1991, as Special Advisor to the Managing Director during 1991 to 1994, and as Deputy Managing Director from 1994 to 1997.

Mr. Narvekar graduated from Bombay University with a Bachelor of Commerce degree in 1951 and completed his Master's degree from Columbia University in New York in 1953. During his service at the International Monetary Fund, Mr. Narvekar spent another year at Columbia University (to work on his PhD) and a year at Oxford University in England as Visiting Fellow.