Former head of MSCI India Chandru Badrinarayanan joins ECube

Former head of MSCI India, Chandru Badrinarayanan has joined ECube as managing partner on Tuesday. ECube, an environment, social and governance platform launched by a group of former senior Tata executives Dr Mukund Rajan, Govind Sankaranarayanan and Alan Rosling.

As managing partner at ECube, Chandru will be involved in institutional investor engagement, ESG research, investee company interactions, investment monitoring, IP management and new business development, ECube said in a press note on Tuesday.

ECube has announced a fund raise of $1 billion earlier this year jointly with Quantum Advisors.


At MSCI, Chandru spent more than 6 years developing its India business related to Indexes, Analytics and ESG, and grew the firm’s business and presence at a rapid pace to a pre-eminent position in the subcontinent.

Welcoming him, ECube Chairman, Dr Mukund Rajan, said “Chandru is a pioneer of the ESG movement in India, and with his sophisticated understanding of the key drivers of ESG improvement, will add huge value to our agenda of behavioural change in corporate India in favour of better ESG performance.”