Mr Rajiv Memani is Chairman and CEO of EY India, the leading professional services organization in India with over 100,000 employees across entities. He is also a member of EY Global Executive board as the Chair of its Growth Markets Council (GMC).
Mr Memani is a trusted advisor to large Indian companies, Private Equity funds and multinational organizations, principally advising them on building confidence, mergers & acquisitions, technology, and smart capital allocation strategies. In his GMC role, his responsibilities include advancing EY’s growth markets agenda and connecting their priorities with the global firm’s investments.
Prior to becoming the Chairman, Mr Memani established EY India’s market-leading Corporate Finance (now Strategy & Transactions) practice in the late 1990s.
Mr Memani is the President of CII for 2025-26. He contributes actively to the public discourse on tax and policy reforms and has been a member of several high-powered Government of India committees, including the Ministry of Finance taskforce that drafted a new Direct Tax Code in 2019.
In addition, Mr Memani is the President of the Board of Him Jyoti School, an institution dedicated to providing quality education to underprivileged girls in Uttarakhand. He is also a Board member of the Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Sirmaur and a member of the governing council of KREA University. Mr Memani has also been the driving force behind EY Foundation, which is active in the areas of education, entrepreneurship for rural women and environment.
Mr Memani is a Chartered Accountant and holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Shri Ram College of Commerce, Delhi University.