Anand Vijay Jha is the Managing Director. He is responsible for Political, legislative, regulatory risk management for Blackstone and its portfolio companies, overseeing policy initiatives at all levels of governments in India.

Before Joining Blackstone, Anand worked as the Chief Corporate Affairs Officer for United Breweries (A Heineken Group company) and Walmart in India and was responsible for all issues on Public Affairs, Communications and ESG for these companies.

An Indian Civil Servant for two decades Anand has worked as Policy maker and implementor with several Government departments. He has also worked as Land Development and Anti-trust Regulator for Government of India. His last assignment with Government of India was with the Competition Commission of India (CCI) as Additional Director General (Investigations).

Anand received an LLM from Durham UK, MBA from FMS University of Delhi. He is a graduate in Mathematics (BSc.) and Law (LLB) from University of Delhi. He is the member of Oxford University, Said Business School’s Corporate Affairs Academy.