Mr. Bhaskar Mehta is Chief Risk Officer at the GFH Financial Group, where he brings to his role more than 15 years of experience in risk management in the financial services industry, including both private investment and the public markets across the Middle East and other emerging markets. He is working at the group level and responsible for the development and implementation of strategies and frameworks that effectively manage all risks associated with the Group’s various functions – including Credit, Market, Liquidity, Information security & Operational Risk. He serves on several of the Group’s executive management level committees and reports independently to the Board Audit & Risk Committee.

Prior to joining the Group, he most recently served as Head of Risk & Portfolio Analytics at Waha Capital in Abu Dhabi, where he oversaw developing and managing all aspects of governance and risk across the business and its investments. His expertise lies in investment risk vertical for private & public markets. He has also implemented ERM frameworks in previous role & held positions in different governance committees.

Previously, Mr. Mehta was at UBS, India acting as a Senior Associate covering the clients for structured products. He was responsible for developing the quantitative & risk models for Fixed income & Rates structuring products. He also worked for Asset managers building risk management models & advance analytics.

Mr. Mehta is FRM (Financial Risk Management) Certified – GARP and holds an MBA – Finance & International Business. He also holds an International Diploma in Governance, Risk & Compliance from ICA (International Compliance Association) and has completed the Risk Management for Corporate Leaders program by Harvard Business School Executive Education.