Hari Hariharan and Chandrika Hariharan live and work in New York and are the founding partners of NWI Management LP (“NWI”). NWI is a New York based hedge fund group specializing global macro investing with an emphasis on emerging markets. 

 

With assets around $5.2 billion under management, NWI product offerings include a global macro fund, an emerging market fixed income and currency fund, a special credit situations fund and separately managed accounts.

 

Hariharan is also the Chief Investment Officer of Blackstone NWI Asset Management L.L.C., an investment advisor in the long-biased emerging markets fixed income space jointly owned by NWI and Blackstone Alternative Asset Management.

 

In 1993, Hariharan joined Banco Santander to set up a specialized hedge fund group called Santander New World Investments. In April 1999, pursuant to changes in Banco Santander’s overall strategic direction after its merger with BSCH in Spain, with the blessings and support of the Santander Group, Hari spun off the entire team into a new vehicle called NWI Management LP.

 

Until May 1993, Hariharan was a senior executive at Citibank N.A. where his last role was as a Senior Managing Director and Division Executive of the International Corporate Finance Division which specialized in emerging economies. His career in Citibank spanned 17 years during which time he built several different and highly successful businesses for the bank globally.

 

In 1992, he took over responsibility for all of Citibank’s activities in the US Capital Markets covering loan syndication, securitization and fixed income securities trading and sales. In 1990, he took charge of all of Citibank’s emerging markets cross border financing and capital markets. In two years, with Hariharan at the helm, this business became one of Citibank’s most profitable and premier franchises.

 

In 1989, he started a Pan European Corporate Finance and product development group as a Division Executive in Europe. In 1986, he was appointed Chief Executive and Country Corporate Officer for Malaysia, responsible for all of Citibank’s franchises in that country.

 

In 1982, Hariharan set up and developed the international investment banking division for Citicorp in Sydney, Australia before taking over as the head of corporate banking for the New South Wales region. From 1976 to 1982, he was at Citibank in India, where among other roles he was head of treasury activities after a stint in Operations.

 

His formal education took place at the Harvard Business School (Program for Management Development), the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad (PGDM-Finance) and at the University of Madras (Bachelor of Commerce - Accounting).

 

Hariharan is a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Foreign Exchange Committee as well as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.