Sanjeev Sinha, Director, PWC, Japan who has been a prominent contributor not only in promotion of business between Japan and India but also to wider bilateral friendly relations launched his second book India-Japan: The Most Powerful Combination in Japan. In the book published in Japanese by Japan’s largest publishers Kodansha, author Sanjeev Sinha has argued how India and Japan can complement each other to be the most powerful combination in the world. Combining the abundant [long term & low cost capital] with the [environment friendly & safe technology] of Japan is a key for development of India. On the other hand India offers much needed growth market and global human resource to Japan. Japan is a great role model for India for an economic growth with very low income disparity, while Indian community is a great role model for Japan in Japan’s pursuit of globalization. And most importantly, the deep trust in the two countries by each other as well as the rest of the world, makes it a global win-win-win combination. The book is a follow up of his earlier book “Amazing India” in Japanese which was published in 2014.

The book launch was attended by dignitaries like Kishida-san, Current Foreign Minister of Japan;  Hiroshi Hirabayashi, President of more than 100 years old Japan-India Association Ambassador; Yoshiro Mori, Former Japanese Prime Minister; Mr. Ota,  Recent Minister of  Land Infra and Transport  and many others were seen attending the launch.

Sanjeev was Born in a desert town of Rajasthan, Barmer, in 1973, Sanjeev was the first from the region to go to the prestigious IIT (Indian Institute of Technology) after his high school. After his integrated masters in Physics and working in Indian conglomerate Godrej, Sanjeev came to Japan to join GenTech for R&D in Artificial Intelligence in 1996 leading to some of the key technology for current Automated Driving Systems.

Acquiring another master degree in Finance, Sanjeev built a career in Finance industry working with Goldman Sachs, Mizuho Securities, UBS and then as Chief Country Representative for Tata Asset Management and Tata Realty and Infra in Japan.

Along the way Sanjeev built and headed many new platforms for India Japan collaboration as Founding President IIT Alumni Association Japan, Founding President TiE Tokyo and Founding President Sun and Sands Group. Promoting bilateral relations, Sanjeev has been a regular commentator on national TV, Columnist on newspapers like Nikkei and Asahi, frequent speaker at top industry bodies like Keizaidoyukai and chambers of commerce, served as an Advisor to Nagareyama City and Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) and as a Visiting Faculty to International University of Japan. Sanjeev is currently also an Advisor to renowned Kyoto University.

Over the two decades, Sanjeev has been promoting important bilateral interactions among the industrialists, Ministers/Members of Parliaments, bureaucrats and academicians between the two countries with specific work on DMIC, Ahmedabad-Mumbai Shinkansen, Andhra Pradesh New Capital project, Kyoto-Kashi collaboration, IIT Ganghinagar collaboration with JAIST and Japanese support of about 400 million USD for IIT Hyderabad among others.

Sanjeev has authored two books “Amazing India” (すごいインド in Japanese http://amzn.to/1XBlsrB ) published in 2014 and “India-Japan: The Most Powerful Combination” (インドと日本は最強コンビ in Japanese http://amzn.to/1Q4WIX2 ) in January 2016.

After working on various initiatives of infrastructure and financing from Japan to India as a Director at PwC Japan, from 2016 Sanjeev has taken up as President of IJIP Asset Management and Executive Managing Director at Kuni Umi Asset Management in Marunouchi to pursue a holistic financial collaboration between the two countries.

Married with his Japanese wife, the couple has a daughter.