Shubho Roy

Shubho is a legal consultant with a special interest in financial regulation, public policy, institutional design, and economic regulation in general.

He has experience in law, finance, and public policy of over four years in multiple roles. As a law clerk to a judge in the Supreme Court, Shubho worked in drafting, case briefing, and legal research of a wide variety of cases that came before the Court, which included complex taxation issues, copyright and intellectual property, and criminal law.

As a legal consultant with the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (NIPFP) since May 2010, he has provided research support to two major government reports on financial inclusion: The Working Group on Foreign Investment under the chairmanship of Mr. U.K. Sinha and the Financial Sector Legislative Reforms Commission under Justice (Retd.) B.N. Srikrishna.

Shubho has provided legal research and support to the Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance on issues of financial regulation, soverign investments, financial inclusion, financial literacy, foreign investment, taxation of financial transaction and securities laws. He has advised the Department of Pharmaceuticals on setting up of schemes to promote venture capital funding and provided research support to the Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) on legal issues with financial inclusion, identification regulation and international money laundering laws.

Shubho has a keen interest in financial regulation, regulatory governance issues and the interface between finance, business, economics, and law.