General Counsel, Jasper Ridge Partners

Advisory Council, Committee on Global Thought

Rajesh Swaminathan is General Counsel and Partner of Jasper Ridge Partners, a $39B AUM global investment firm, where he oversees the legal, compliance, tax and human resources functions.

Prior to joining Jasper Ridge Partners in 2017, Rajesh served as Senior Managing Director and General Counsel at PineBridge Investments, PineBridge Investments’ regional general counsel for Europe, Middle East and Africa, and assistant general counsel in the alternative investments business of PineBridge’s predecessor organization, AIG Investments. Before joining AIG, he was in private practice in the New York and Washington, DC offices of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft, LLP; Steptoe & Johnson LLP; and Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP.

Rajesh is a Fellow of the Salzburg Global Seminar and a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He also serves on the Advisory Councils of the Millennium Challenge Corporation and the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University, and as a Director of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at the Georgetown University Law Center. In addition, he is a Member of the Bretton Woods Committee and the National Leadership Council of the American India Foundation. He also serves as a Trustee of the Greenhill School.

Website

• Jasper Ridge Partners

Education

• J.D., Columbia Law School
• M.A., Philosophy, University of Oxford
• B.A., Williams College