Shaurya Doval is a private equity professional and a public policy thinker. He is associated with the Bharatiya Janata Party. He leads the India Foundation, a think tank in New Delhi, officially being on its board of governors along with people like Nirmala Sitharaman and Suresh Prabhakar Prabhu. He is also a partner at Torch Investment Management, a global principal investment management platform.
Shaurya Doval has over two and half decades of investment banking career during which he worked in New York, London and New Delhi for companies like Arthur Andersen, Morgan Stanley and GE Capital. In 2006, he started a global principal investment management platform called ZeusCaps which was subsequently renamed to Torch Investment Management. Torch Investment Management manages a private equity portfolio of global investments and is based out of Singapore. He is also part of the international leadership team of Greater Pacific Capital, a private equity firm, based out of London. While pursuing his banking career, Shaurya was also part of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London. In 2009, he was part of a team that helped in the creation and growth of India foundation, a think tank meant to discuss and debate important national and cultural issues. In 2015, Shaurya attended the Eisenhower Fellowship Program, where he focused his fellowship on exploring public policy development in the United States. In 2017, Shaurya has indicated his entry into active politics from Uttarakhand, his native place. Shaurya participated as a member in Uttarakhand BJP’s working member committee in the December 16-17, 2017 meeting. Uttarakhand BJP president Ajay Bhatt said, “I had invited him to the meeting as a ‘special invitee to the executive committee’. He is part of an advisory group of eight-nine members. I meet them whenever I am in Delhi and take their advice on various issues in Uttarakhand, especially those related to economy.” Shaurya conceptualized the idea of ‘Buland Uttarakhand’ and has initiated several community based projects. In June 2018, under the ‘Buland Uttarakhand’ drive, he launched project ‘Bemisal Garhwal’ which aims at developing the quality of people’s lives in the community with focus on agriculture, health and farming in the region.
Controversies
The publication The Wire raised concerns of a conflict of interest between Doval's leadership in The India Foundation and his father's involvement in government. Doval denied the claims and subsequently filed a defamation suit against the publication.
