Economic Outlook: Trends Your Contract and Commercial Clients Will Want To Know

Shailesh Kumar is the head of the Global Specialty Insights Center. In this capacity he oversees economic and geopolitical research to provide insights and risk advisory services to the firm’s underwriting departments and its clients, brokers, and agents.

Before joining The Hartford, Shailesh managed the Asia research and advisory practice at Eurasia Group, a political risk consulting firm. Prior to Eurasia Group, Shailesh was an economist at the US Department of Treasury where he served in various functions including developing the US government’s economic policies and engagement strategy with India, preparing financial market briefings for the President of the United States and Treasury Secretary, and other cabinet officials, and working on US Treasury securities market policies and issuance strategies to fund the nation’s deficit. Earlier in this career, Shailesh held positions at various investment banks as a global macro investment professional.  

Shailesh earned a master’s degree in international affairs from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a dual bachelor’s degree in finance and marketing from The Stern School of Business at New York University.