Analyst
Prathima Rajan
is an analyst at Celent and is based in Bangalore, India. Ms.
Rajan's proficiency lies in the retail banking, microfinance,
rural banking, and electronic payments domains. Prior to Celent,
Ms. Rajan was serving as research analyst for Brickwork, India,
where she assisted a US-based financial consulting firm in its
sector study of the US financial industry.
Previously, Ms. Rajan was a senior research analyst for a knowledge management company in India, where she conducted a variety of research and projects in the field of microfinance, rural financing, retail industry and country opportunity, and risk analysis. She also supported one of the leading Australian financial players in setting up a branch in India, where she assisted the organization in understanding the Indian economy and India's financial services industry. She was in charge of country opportunity and risk profiles for the Asia-Pacific region.
Ms. Rajan holds a postgraduate degree in management from Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Bangalore, India. She is fluent in Kannada, Telugu, Tamil, Hindi, and English.