Praveen Chakravarty

Praveen Chakravarthy is an Indian politician belonging to the Congress Party. He was elected to the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of Indian Parliament, from Tamil Nadu as a member of the Indian National Congress. He took over as chairperson of the All India Professionals' Congress from Shashi Tharoor on 15 November 2023.^[2] He is the Chairman of the Data Analytics department, appointed by Rahul Gandhi.^[3] He is the brains behind SHAKTI, a project that was created to modernise the Congress party.^[4] He along with P.Chidambaram drafted the NYAY scheme for the party's 2019 election manifesto with help from Nobel Laureate Prof. Abhijit Banerjee among others.^[5][6]

Chakravarty was a political economist scholar in a think tank, an investment banker and angel investor before entering politics.^[7] It was widely reported that Chakravarty will be the Congress candidate for Member of Parliament of the Upper House in 2026 from the state of Tamil Nadu.^[8]

Praveen Chakravarthy was appointed as a member of Empowered Action Group of Leaders and Experts (EAGLE) which was constituted by Indian National Congress on 2 February 2025 to monitor the conduct of free and fair elections by the Election Commission of India.^[9]

Chakravarthy has been nominated along with 6 others in the list for Rajya Sabha by-elections in June 2026.^[10][11]

Praveen Chakravarty started his career with IBM in Japan and moved to Microsoft. He switched to investment banking in New York and San Francisco, after receiving his MBA from Wharton School. Chakravarty moved to India to set up Thomas Weisel's India operations and 2 years later, captured headlines in a high-profile move to BNP Paribas as managing director with his entire team from Thomas Weisel.^[12] 4 years later, he joined Nandan Nilekani's team at Aadhaar.

Es cofundador de Mumbai Angels y figura entre los cinco principales inversores ángeles del país según una encuesta. ^{[ 13 ]} También fue editor colaborador de BloombergQuint, donde presentó una popular columna mensual llamada "Noise To Signal". ^{[ 14 ]}

Luego se convirtió en investigador en un centro de estudios y publicó una extensa investigación sobre la divergencia económica de la India entre sus estados. ^{[ 15 ]}